Holger Groschopp - Chamber Music, Vol. 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Hans Winterberg, born in Prague in 1901, studied with Alexander von Zemlinsky and Alois Haba. He worked as a conductor, pianist and composer until the annexation of the Czechoslovak Republic by Nazi Germany in 1939. As the scion of a Jewish family that had lived in Prague for centuries, he survived - after forced labor and deportation to Theresienstadt - through a series of miracles. After the Communists came to power in Czechoslovakia, he moved to Germany. His compositional legacy, locked away for years in a German music archive, has only been rediscovered in recent years. Winterberg combines various influences in his music to create an original and exciting personal style. He takes up stylistic elements of Janacek but is also influenced by the Second Viennese School and French Impressionism. He saw himself as a bridge-builder between the cultures of Eastern and Western Europe. Eda records dedicates a focus to this most important Czech-Jewish composers of the generation of the so called InchTerezin composersInch alongside Ullmann, Krasa and Haas. Further chamber music recordings and the complete works for piano with pianist Jonathan Powell will follow.

While art history defines as InchÉcole de ParisInch an art-historical phenomenon, i.e. a large group of visual artists of non-French origin, many of them of Eastern European and Jewish descent, who worked in the French capital in the first decades of the twentieth century, musicology and musical life in general still find it difficult to recognize as music-historical reality an InchÈcole de ParisInch with the same complexity and seminal influence. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of it's first appearance in the musical context, the 100th anniversary of the world premiere of Strawinsky's seminal Octet and the 100th anniversary of George Antheil's arrival in Paris, the present recording takes the opportunity to scrutinize the term InchÉcole de ParisInch and to define it more clearly against the background of the enormous stylistic diversity of the various groups that came together in Paris of the1920s, their amicable interrelationships and reciprocal influences beyond the epochal break of 1939-45. Album Tracks 1. I. Pastorale Allant [03 48] 2. II. Romance Souple [04 25] 3. III. Gigue Anime [05 07] 4. No. 1. Andantino [08 27] 5. No. 2. Tempo Giusto [12 39] 6. Concerto for Chamber Orchestra [16 20] 7. I. Allegro Non Troppo [05 23] 8. II. Andantino [04 54] 9. III. Allegro Assai [04 51] 10. I. Sinfonia [04 17] 11. II. Tema Con Variazioni [07 54] 12. III. Finale [03 37]

CD digipak features liner notes by William Parker. Painters Winter features the trio of William Parker - bass, trombonium, shakuhachi; Daniel Carter - reeds, trumpet, flute; and Hamid Drake - drums. Carter & Parker have been perpetual space-ways traveling companions since first meeting & immediately beginning to channel music together in early 1970s NYC. Their work together in Other Dimensions In Music with Roy Campbell & Rashid Bakr for well over two decades manifest in bountiful music for the ages. They have recently been featured together in similar majestic open form on the album, Seraphic Light. Here, Carter again brings the full assembly of instruments he has for decades been a master of trumpet, alto & tenor saxophones, clarinet and flute. Likewise, Hamid Drake is a musician's musician; one of the most in-demand drummers in the world. He is in command of a vast lexicon of drum languages, learned and absorbed directly. Drake & Parker launched their devoted Inchtwo-man big bandInch partnership in 2000 and haven't stopped since. In trio with Daniel Carter, they've created one previous album together, Painters Spring, released that same year. Regarding this album's title, Parker elucidates, InchIt speaks to those who paint with sound, in different landscapes, to celebrate the coming of the seasons winter spring summer and autumn. Acknowledging the entire universe of world jazz music. Discovering the undiscovered.Inch And from his liner notes, InchThe music on this album is a tribute to the flow of rhythm as melody and pulsation. Laced with the joy and the bounce, the dance and the heartbeat. Giving a nod to all the music that has ever passed through us. Sounds we both listened to while breezes and big green kites we called leaves sailed above the trees.Inch Album Tracks 1. Groove 77 2. Painters Winter 3. Happiness 4. Painted Scarf 5. A Curley Russe