Release Date: 03 March 2023
Label: Toccata Classics - Cd / Toccata Classics
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060113446831
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Hans Winterberg
Description
The life of the Prague-born composer Hans Winterberg (1901-91) reads like the outline of a detective novel. Having survived internment in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto as a Czech Jew, after the War he settled in Munich as a German citizen, and his music enjoyed a number of broadcasts - but after his death his estate disappeared into the vaults of a research institute and was placed under embargo, emerging only in 2015, since when recordings and performances have revealed him as one of the major Czech voices of the twentieth century. This first recording of three of his four string quartets - their language downstream from Janacek and Schoenberg, with folk-music roots refracted through mid-century Czech modernism - confirm Winterberg's standing, and underline his importance as a lone survivor of the group of young Czech composers whose infinite promise was extinguished in the Holocaust.
Various Artists
Tamas Fejes; Balazs Renczes; Christopher Guild
Nora Luse
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra; Imants Resnis
Duo Praxedis
Choir of Girton College; Cambridge; The Western Wyndes; Felix Elliott; Emily Nott; Gabriel Kennedy;
Chester Concordia Brass Ensemble; Robert Marsh; Philip Rushforth; Richard Lambert
Barcelona Clarinet Players; North Texas Percussion Quartet; Lauren Shuyler; Albert Guinovart; North
Various
Duisburger Philharmoniker & Axel Kober
Duisburger Philharmoniker & Axel Kober
Axel Kober & Duisburger Philharmoniker
Zlata Chochieva
Zeb Soanes; Britten Sinfonia Voices; Britten Sinfonia; Jamie Phillips
Yulia Vershinina-Mukhopadhyay; Chiahu Lee
Ylva Larsdotter; Torun Saeter Stavseng; Peter Friis Johansson
