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Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 1

Genre: Unknown

De Bijlmer opera : [opera in 17 scènes voor zanger, zangeres, acteur, gemengd koor en orkest], 1999 / libretto: Fer Bank, Jacques Bank

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: sopr-m bar actor GK4 fl(pic) sax-s(sax-b) sax-a sax-t(sax-s) h 3trp 2trb trb-b 2perc pf cb(g-b)

Lachesis : Kammeroper in einem Akt; Chamber opera in one act / Marijn Simons; libretto by Hermann Schneider

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: 5zang picc fl/fl-a ob/eh cl/cl-b sax-bar fg/cfg h tpt/tpt-picc trb-t trb-b 2perc hp g-eb pf/keyb 2vn vla vc db tape

De Synode (De koopman en de dominee) : A chamber opera in a prologue and two acts, for four singers and six musicians / Jan-Peter de Graaff; libretto by Yuri Robbers

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: zang ob(eh/ob d'amore) sax(sax-s/sax-a/sax-bar/cl-b) pf hp vn cb

composition

Amorys : Chamber opera in one act / music: Nico Richter; libretto: Hendrik Lindt

Other authors:
Leo Smit Stichting (Curator)
Lindt, Hendrik (Text writer/Librettist)
Richter, Nico (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.