related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 2
Genre:
Unknown
Am ende des Regenbogens : für Orchester, 1980 / Enrique Raxach
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4444 4441 timp 3perc str
Abschied : symphonische Dichtung, für grosses Orchester, 1973 / Reinbert de Leeuw
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2fl(pic) 4ob 4cl cl-b 2sax 8h 5trp 4trb 2tb-b timp perc 2hp pf str
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4460 3341 6perc pf str
composition
Suite : for orchestra / Leo Smit; free arrangement and orchestration by Godefroid Devreese and Bob Zimmerman
Other authors:
Devreese, Godefroid
(Orchestrator)
Leo Smit Stichting
(Curator)
Zimmerman, Bob
(Orchestrator)
Smit, Leo
(Composer)
Contains:
Prélude (c. 3‘): Bob Zimmerman
Forlane (c. 3‘): Godefroid Devreese
Rondeau (c. 4’15"): Godefroid Devreese
Description:
The series 'Forbidden Music Regained' proudly presents works by composers who were persecuted during the Second World War. Performances of these works were forbidden during the war. Many composers were imprisoned, several did not survive and others went into hiding.
After the war a new generation took over. The pre-war composers were soon forgotten and their compositions remained hidden in closets and archives or fell otherwise into oblivion. In recent decades numerous works have been rediscovered through the efforts of the Leo Smit Foundation. Some scores were found in attics, others in a garden shed and a pile of music was found by young children next to a garbage can. These compositions are of a high quality and deserve to be performed again. The diversity of styles represents the entire spectrum of the first half of the Twentieth century: romanticism, impressionism, modernism, neoclassicism, jazz, and so forth. This project aims to encourage musicians, young and old, from across the globe to perform these compositions, and for concert audiences to (once again) become acquainted with this ‘unheard’ music.