related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 4
Genre:
Unknown
Canto continuo : voor symfonieorkest, 1988 / Henk Keizer
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3221 4430 2timp 2perc str
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
0200 2000 str bc
... e mi sovvien... (Ciclo dell' Infinito, terza parte) : Versione per orchestra / Diderik Wagenaar
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 2fl(picc.fl-a) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 4h 2tpt 2trb tb 2perc gt cimb 2hp cel pf str
composition
Symphonic Poem : Suite from the opera Thijl / Jan van Gilse; arranged by Ed Spanjaard
Other authors:
Spanjaard, Ed
(Orchestrator)
Gilse, Jan 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.