Hans Winterberg: Piano Music, Volume Two

Catalogue No: TOCC0609
EAN/UPC: 5060113446091
Release Date: 2021-10-01
Composer: Hans Winterberg
Artists: Brigitte Helbig

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

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