Bernhard Sekles: Chamber Music
Bernhard Sekles (1872-1933) was one of the leading figures in German music in the first decades of the twentieth century, prominent as composer, educator and administrator. In 1928, as director of the Hoch Conservatorium in Frankfurt, he established the first academic programme in jazz studies, an act of courage and conviction that unleashed furious attacks from the Nazi press. His own music, banned during the Third Reich, has been virtually forgotten, although he composed in all major genres, including opera, symphony, lieder and chamber music. As the works on this recording illustrate, Sekles' music finds room for diverse elements — including Neoclassicism, Brahmsian Romanticism and jazz — and can be refreshingly quirky.
Solomia Soroka, viola, violin
Noreen Silver, cello
Phillip Silver, piano
Listen To This Recording:
- Chaconne on an Eight-Bar March-Theme, Op. 38, for viola and piano (publ. 1931)
- I Sostenuto assai (Schwerlastend) – Allegro marcato ma moderato
- II Intermezzo: Lento – Presto – Prestissimo
- III Tema con Variazioni
- I Praeludio: Moderato ma energico
- II Scherzino: Vivace
- III Intermezzo: Larghetto
- IV Finale: Yankee-Doodle con Variazioni – Allegretto comodo (Nicht schnell)
- I Allegro ma non troppo
- II Andantino
- III Vivace
- IV Allegro maestoso
Cello Sonata, Op. 28 (1919)
Capriccio in Four Movements for piano trio (publ. 1932)
Violin Sonata, Op. 44
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