related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 4
Genre:
Unknown
Here I come! : for symphony orchestra and rapper, 1993 / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 sax-a 4441 3perc drums el.g pf str rapper
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2220 timp perc hp str
Putti : for chamber orchestra, 1991 / Bart de Kemp
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
fl fl(pic) ob ob(eh) 2cl fg cfg 2h 2trp 2trb tb 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.