The music of the many composers who died in the Holocaust has received renewed attention from various angles, including that of whether the music they wrote prior to their incarceration and death has been unjustly neglected. This release from Chicago's Black Oak Ensemble and Cedille label answers in a convincing affirmative. Two of the pieces here, by Gideon Klein and Paul Hermann, were written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where cultural performances were permitted, but the bulk of the pieces were written ...
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The music of the many composers who died in the Holocaust has received renewed attention from various angles, including that of whether the music they wrote prior to their incarceration and death has been unjustly neglected. This release from Chicago's Black Oak Ensemble and Cedille label answers in a convincing affirmative. Two of the pieces here, by Gideon Klein and Paul Hermann, were written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where cultural performances were permitted, but the bulk of the pieces were written earlier, before their composers were captured. Mostly they are youthful works, and what they show is an effort to extend the language of Bartók, who in at least one case (Sándor Kuti, who classmate Georg Solti said would have become one of Hungary's greatest composers had he lived) was the composer's actual teacher. Kuti's Serenade for string trio is marked by Hungarian folk rhythms but uses clusters of chords in a way Bartók would not have done. Among the works written at Theresienstadt,...
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