Hans Winterberg: Chamber Music, Volume One
The case of the composer Hans Winterberg (1901–91) is a strange one. A survivor of the Terezín concentration camp, where he had been interned 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 the Sudeten German Music Institute, where it was placed under embargo, emerging only in 2015. This first album of his music reveals an unusual and individual voice, an idiosyncratic blend of Stravinsky, Janáček and Hindemith, with touches of Poulenc, often expressed with brittle humour and rhythmic verve.
Arizona Wind Quintet
Brian Luce, flute (tracks 1–3 and 10–12)
Sara Fraker, oboe (tracks 1–3 and 10–12)
Jackie Glazier, clarinet (1–3 and 10–12)
Daniel Katzen, horn (tracks 10–12)
William Dietz, bassoon (tracks 1–3 and 10–12)
Jackie Glazier, clarinet (tracks 4–6)
Theodore Buchholz, cello (tracks 7–9)
Rex Woods, harpsichord (tracks 1–3), piano (tracks 13–15)
Tannis Gibson, piano (tracks 4–6)
Alexander Tentser, piano (tracks 7–9)
Listen To This Recording:
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Suite for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and Harpsichord (1959)
- I. Lebhaft zügig, leicht
- II. Poco con moto
- III. Lebhaft
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- II. Poco grave (non troppo)
- III. Presto
- I. Allegro moderato
- II. Mit ausdrucksstarker Bewegung
- III. Vivace
- I. Leicht fliessend, nicht zu schnell
- II. Pastorale
- III. Allegro non troppo
- I. Lebhaft zügig, leicht
- II. Poco con moto
- III. Lebhaft
Suite for B flat Clarinet and Piano (1944)
Sonata for Cello and Piano (1951)
Wind Quintet (1957)
Suite for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and piano (alternative version) (1959)
*FIRST RECORDINGS
MusicWeb International :
‘This previously little-known Czech composer emerges as something of an iconoclast in these works. They’re played with biting resonance and power by the excellent instrumentalists. Sometimes critics note that they look forward to the next volume in a series but with a certain weary and detectable sense of duty. Not here: I’m keen to encounter more Winterberg.’
—Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International