Composer: Hans Winterberg
Performer: Jonathan Powell
Orchestra: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Capriccio
Catalogue: C5476
Release: 2022
Size: 587 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Symphony No. 1 “Sinfonia dramatica”
Piano Concerto No. 1
02. I. Prelude
03. II. Intermezzo
04. III. Epilogue
Rhythmophonie
05. I. Äußerst lebhaft
06. II. Sehr ruhig
07. III. Mit leichtem Schwung, nicht schleppen
Hans Winterberg grew up in Prague where he was one of a whole cadre of composers in the new Czech musical tradition. He is one of the few Jewish composers who survived the terror of World War II. His tale of survival is complicated and involved him, as a Czech Jew, having to seek refuge in post-war Germany, whereas contemporaries and colleagues like Viktor Ullmann, Erwin Schulhoff, and Hans Krása died in the concentration camps. He saw his music as “a bridge” between the Slavic East and the West and admitted at one point that his musical starting point was Schoenberg. Audibly more present than Schoenberg, however, is a central European Impressionism, synthesized with complex rhythms.