related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 4
Genre:
Unknown
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Te Deum : for mixed choir, baritone solo and orchestra / Anthon van der Horst
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
bar 2GK4 3344 6332 timp perc 2hp org str
Psalm 42 : for mixed choir and string orchestra / Sonja Schwedersky
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
GK4 str
composition
De Vogel Vrijheid: Oratorium in drie delen : voor baritonsolo, sopraansolo, kinderkoor, gemengd koor en orkest / Lex van Delden; text Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt
Other authors:
Delden, Lex van
(Composer)
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.