Composer: Hans Winterberg
Performer: Brigitte Helbig
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0609
Release: 2021
Size: 506 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Toccata für Klavier
Piano Sonata No. 1
02. I. Agitato
03. II. Adagio
04. III. Molto vivace
Impressionistische Klaviersuite
05. I. Prestissimo leggiero molto
06. II. Con moto
07. III. Vivacissimo
Suite for Piano “1956”
08. I. Sehr schnelle Sechzehntel
09. II. Mässige Achtel
10. III. Lebhaft
11. IV. Lebhaft, energisch
Erinnerungen an Böhmen
12. No. 1, Baumblüte im Elbtal
13. No. 2, Ein Sommertag am Hirschberger See
14. No. 3, Prag im Herbst
15. No. 4, Winterwanderung
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 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.