Composer: Bernhard Sekles
Performer: Solomia Soroka, Noreen Silver, Phillip Silver
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0147
Release: 2013
Size: 306 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Chaconne, Op. 38
Cello Sonata, Op. 28
02. I. Sostenuto assai – Allegro marcato ma moderato
03. II. Intermezzo: Lento – Presto – Prestissimo
04. III. Tema con Variazioni
Capriccio in 4 movements
05. I. Praeludio: Moderato ma energico
06. II. Scherzino: Vivace
07. III. Intermezzo: Larghetto
08. IV. Finale: Yankee – Doodle con Variazioni – Allegretto comodo
Violin Sonata, Op. 44
09. I. Allegro ma non troppo
10. II. Andantino
11. III. Vivace
12. IV. Allegro maestoso
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 chamber works on this recording illustrate, Sekles often juxtaposes diverse elements – including Neoclassicism, Brahmsian Romanticism and jazz – in his compositions, which can be refreshingly quirky.