related works

Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 1

Genre: Unknown

Laika : Opera in 4 Acts / Martijn Padding; P.F. Thomése

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: GK4 fl(fl-b) ob(eh) cl(cl-b) h trp trb tb acc pf keyb g-e perc str

Krotkaya : Opera / music by Alexey Kurbatov; libretto by Ludmila Naletova

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: zang fl/fl-a ob/eh cl/cl-b fg h tpt trb perc hp synth str

Los heraldos : a chamber opera, for actor, five singers and instrumental quintet, 1993 / libretto by Armando Bergallo and Hector Vilche, Ilse van de Kasteelen

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: recit 2sopr alt ten bas-bar cl sax trp perc vc

composition

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

Author(s):
Leo Smit Stichting (Partner)
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.