Hans WINTERBERG: Piano Music, Volume One
The tale of Hans Winterberg (1901–91) is a strange one. A survivor of the Terezín concentration camp, where he had been interned as a Czech Jew, he settled in Munich after the Second World War as a German citizen, and his music enjoyed a number of broadcasts – but with his death his estate disappeared into a legal limbo, emerging only in 2015. This first album of his piano music reveals an unusual and individual voice, an idiosyncratic blend of Janáček, Ravel, Schoenberg and other mid-twentieth-century masters, animated by a hard-edged, freewheeling energy and grim humour reminiscent of his close contemporary, Nikos Skalkottas.
Brigitte Helbig, piano
Listen To This Recording:
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Sonata II (1941)
- I Agitato
- II Andante sostenuto
- III Molto vivace
- No. 1 Breit
- No. 2 Leicht, flüchtig
- No. 3 Sehr langsam, verträumt
- No. 4 Wild, heftig
- I Präludium
- II Intermezzo
- III Postludium
- I Vorspiel
- II Passacaglia
- III Marsch
- IV Bucolica
- V Toccata
- No. 1 Sehr schnell, leicht fliessend
- No. 2 Malinconia, molto moderato
- No. 3 Sehr bewegt
- No. 4 Vivacissimo
- No. 5 Impetuoso
- No. 6 Molto movimento
- No. 7 Molto vivace, alla toccata
Four Intermezzi (1929)
Suite Theresienstadt (1945)*
Suite for Piano (1955)
Seven Neo-Impressionist Pieces in Twelve-Tone (1973)
ALL EXCEPT * FIRST RECORDINGS
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