Composer: Hans Winterberg
Performer: Brigitte Helbig
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0531
Release: 2019
Size: 883 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Klaviersonate No. 2
01. I. Agitato
02. II. Andante sostenuto
03. III. Molto vivace
Four Intermezzi
04. No. 1, Breit
05. No. 2, Leicht, flüchtig
06. No. 3, Sehr langsam, verträumt
07. No. 4, Wild, heftig
Piano Suite “Theresienstadt 1945”
08. I. Präludium
09. II. Intermezzo
10. III. Postludium
Piano Suite “1955”
11. I. Vorspiel
12. II. Passacaglia
13. III. Marsch
14. IV. Bucólica
15. V. Toccata
Seven Neo-Impressionist Pieces in Twelve-Tone
16. No. 1, Sehr schnell, leicht fliessend
17. No. 2, Malinconia, molto moderato
18. No. 3, Sehr bewegt
19. No. 4, Vivacissimo
20. No. 5, Impetuoso
21. No. 6, Molto movimento
22. No. 7, Molto vivace, alla toccata
The tale of Hans Winterberg (1901–1991) 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 Second World 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 first 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.