Composer: Bernhard Sekles
Performer: Jascha Nemtsov, Tehila Nini Goldstein
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hänssler
Catalogue: HC22008
Release: 2023
Size: 761 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Shi Jing Song Book, 18 Songs
01. Nr. 1. Der Einzige
02. Nr. 2. Mädchenlied
03. Nr. 3. Über`m Flusse drüben
04. Nr. 4. Im Mondschein
05. Nr. 5. Im Morgendämmer
06. Nr. 6. Der Grenzwächter
07. Nr. 7. Vergebliche Beschwörung
08. Nr. 8. Trauer um Pe-Hi
09. Nr. 9. Der Unrechte
10. Nr. 10. Jägerliebchen
11. Nr. 11. Begegnung
12. Nr. 12. Das Frühlingsfest
13. Nr. 13. Bei Regenwetter
14. Nr. 14. Das schwarze Hofmannskleid
15. Nr. 15. Die Folgsame
16. Nr. 16. Wasserstille
17. Nr. 17. Das Ahnenfest
18. Nr. 18. Kriegslied der Fürstin
Fantasietten, 23 Small Pieces for Solo Piano, Op. 42
19. I. Andantino
20. II. Allegretto
21. III. Allegretto
22. IV. Allegretto
23. V. Andante
24. VII. Allegretto amabile
25. VII. Allegretto amabile
26. VIII. Triumphmarsch – Allegro maestoso
27. IX. Allegretto
28. X. Abschied von der Kirmes – Allegretto
29. XI. Allegretto
30. XII. Poco maestoso
31. XIII. Rhapsodie – Adagio
32. XIV. Thema con Variazioni – Allegretto
33. XV. Slawischer Tanz – Allegro
34. XVI. Andante intimo
35. XVII. Alla Marcia funebre – Andante mesto
36. XVIII. Ländler – Allegro comodo
37. XIX. Alla Polonaise – Allegro maestoso
38. XX. Volante
39. XXI. Tempo di Menuetto
40. XXII. Duo Moderato
41. XXIII. Fuge über den Ton “C” – Maestoso
Suite No. 1 for Piano, Op. 34
42. I. Vorspiel
43. II. Erstes Zwischenspiel
44. III. Toccatina
45. IV. Erster Tanz
46. V. Zweiter Tanz
47. VI. Zweites Zwischenspiel
48. VII. Fuga alla burla
“Warm humanity that infuses everything technical with life and a sense of duty” – Numerous composers who were victims of Nazi persecution have been rediscovered in recent years. As in the case of many other outstanding musicians, one can only wonder why it has taken so long for Bernhard Sekles’s music to be rescued from oblivion. In Sekles’s case this question is very difficult to answer, since his works are truly of the highest quality and they enrich the repertoire in a number of different music genres. What is more, prior to 1933 Sekles was one of the best known personalities of his generation on the entire music scene; for a long time, he was pivotal to music life in Germany, both as a successful composer and author of many popular and frequently performed works and as an outstanding teacher of composition whose classes nurtured numerous famous musicians. Finally, he was, for almost ten years, the highly innovative Director of the Hoch Conservatoire in Frankfurt am Main, one of the most important, internationally acknowledged teaching institutions of it’s day in the field of music. He was very attached to the city of his birth; indeed, he lived there for almost all of his life.