Holger Groschopp - Winterberg: Chamber Music, Vol. 1 - 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 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. Album Tracks 1. Trio für Klarinette, Cello und Klavier~Leicht fließend 2. Trio für Klarinette, Cello und Klavier~Andante sostenuto 3. Trio für Klarinette, Cello und Klavier~Tempo di Menuetto 4. Trio für Klarinette, Cello und Klavier~Allegro barbaro 5. Suite für Violine und Klavier~Allegro moderato (poco agitato) 6. Suite für Violine und Klavier~Molto moderato 7. Suite für Violine und Klavier~Agitato 8. Suite für Trompete und Klavier Nr. 2~Lebhaft bewegt 9. Suite für Trompete und Klavier Nr. 2~Andante moderato 10. Suite für Trompete und Klavier Nr. 2~Allegro moderato ma energico 11. InchDort und HierInch für Sopran und Klaviertrio auf Gedichte von Franz Werfel~Madonna mit den Krähen 12. InchDort u

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]

World premiere recordings are brought together on this new GENUIN album featuring works by the composer Christian Ridil Renowned musicians from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, among others, play in formations ranging from brass quintet to flute and percussion to the exquisite combination of (chromatic) harmonica and harpsichord. The works of the Goethe University Frankfurt's former university music director are characterized by stylistic diversity, wit, charm, and virtuosity and yet bear Ridil's clear signature. Absolutely worth discovering! Album Tracks 1. Meeting - Four Humoresques for Brass Quintet-With a Kind of Crypticness 2. Meeting - Four Humoresques for Brass Quintet-Like a Bavarian InchZwiefacherInch 3. Meeting - Four Humoresques for Brass Quintet-Slow 4. Meeting - Four Humoresques for Brass Quintet-(Final Rag) Not Too Fast 5. Märchenbilder for Flute and Percussion-O. B 6. Märchenbilder for Flute and Percussion-Viertel = 100 7. Märchenbilder for Flute and Percussion-Intermezzo 8. Märchenbilder for Flute and Percussion-Viertel = 60 9. Märchenbilder for Flute and Percussion-Viertel = 116 10. Variations on a Hungarian Dance for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano-Introduktion - Lento 11. Variations on a Hungarian Dance for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano-Thema - Allegro Robusto 12. Variations on a Hungarian Dance for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano-Var. I. L'sso Tempo 13. Variations on a Hungarian Dance for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano-Var. II. InchSaragigaInch - Solenne 14. Variations on a Hungarian Dance for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano-Var. III. Allegro 15. Variations on a Hungarian Dance for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano-Var. IV. Tempo Di Valzer 16. Variations on a Hungarian Dance for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano-Var. V. InchGigabandaInch - Un Poco Giocoso 17. Variations on a Hungarian Dance for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano-Var. VI. F