Hans Winterberg: Piano Music, Volume Two
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 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 second 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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Toccata (1926)
- Toccata
- I Agitato
- II Adagio
- III Molto vivace
- I Prestissimo leggiero molto
- II Con moto (alla gondoliera)
- III Vivacissimo
- I Sehr schnelle Sechzehntel
- II Mässige Achtel (gemächlich)
- III Lebhaft
- IV Lebhaft, energisch
- I Baumblüte im Elbtal
- II Ein Sommertag am Hirschberger See
- III Prag im Herbst
- IV Winterwanderung
Piano Sonata No. 1 (1936)*
Impressionistische Klavier-Suite (date unknown)
Suite for Piano (1956)
Erinnerungen an Böhmen (‘Memories of Bohemia’; date unknown)
ALL EXCEPT * FIRST RECORDINGS
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