related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 3
Genre:
Unknown
Bloemen: een oud lied : voor mezzo sopraan en piano / Erik Lotichius; texts by K. Schippers
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
m-sopr pf
Kleine prelude van Ravel : voor alt en piano, 1938 / gedicht: Martinus Nijhoff, Leo Smit
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
alt pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
sopr-m pf
composition
Fourteen Songs : for high/medium voice and piano / James Simon; Text: Walter Calé, Carl Hauptmann, Manfred Hausmann, Max Dauthendey, Novalis, Ruth Schaumann, Jean Gebser, Paul Verlaine, Rudolf Majut, Stefan George, Annelies Braun, Christian Morgenstern, Richard Dehmel
Author(s):
Leo Smit Stichting
(Partner)
Simon, James
(Composer)
Contains:
Abendstunde (Walter Calé)
Gefesselt (Carl Hauptmann)
Heimkehr (Manfred Hausmann)
Himmelfahrtstag (Max Dauthendey)
Hymne an die Nacht (Novalis)
Inbrunst (Ruth Schaumann)
Jetzt kommt schon der Morgen herauf (Jean Gebser)
La lune blanche (Paul Verlaine)
Lichte Nacht (Rudolf Majut)
Litanei (Stefan George)
Neujahrswünsch (Anneliese Braun)
Präludium (Christian Morgenstern)
Venus Fantasia! (Richard Dehmel)
Verheissung (text after the Book of Jeremiah)
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.