Release Date: 02 July 2021
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 840387100456
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Simon Laks
Description
Simon Laks (1901–1983) belonged to the group of young Polish musicians who, encouraged by Paderewski and Szymanowski, pursued careers in Paris of the interwar period. Due to his Jewish descent, he was deported in 1942 to Auschwitz, where he was able to survive as director of a camp orchestra in Birkenau. Long known primarily for the account of his survival, Music of Another World, his compositions, too, have meanwhile attracted international attention. This double?CD presents all of the composer’s existing songs and melodramas, largely in first recordings. Owing to the outstanding quality of the music as well as of the Polish and French texts, but above all against the background of the experiences that flowed into them and make them a testimony to deeply moving humanism, these works deserve a special place in the musical history of the twentieth century.
Stephan Morth; Richard Obermayer; Una Weske; Tomer Maschkowski; Adamello Quartett
Jonathan Powell; Sarah Maria Sun; Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin; Johannes Kalitzke
Kolja Lessing; Rainer Maria Klaas
Adele Bitter; Holger Groschopp; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin ; Johannes Zurl
Various
Various
Polish Rso/Bruns
Moritz Ernst
Rupert Struber
Zuill Bailey; Gary Sinise; Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra; William Intriligator
Ying Fang; Manchester Camerata; Gabor Takacs-Nagy
Yanfeng Tony Bai
Wurttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn; Simon Gaudenz
Wuppertaler Kurrende; Jens-Peter Enk; Lukas Baumann
Wolfgang Kogert; Miroslav Beinhauer; Daisy Press; Sabine Lutzenberger; Wolfram Oettl
Wiener Symphoniker; Petr Popelka
