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NEOS 10719CD
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Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson (tenor/vocalist); Johan Bossers (piano). "The turn of the year from 1929 to 1930 marked a break in the life of Stefan Wolpe: after long years and many attempts to find his place within the cultural life of the avant-garde in the Weimar Republic, he then made his definitive turn to working as a political composer and worked intensely in the areas of workers' music and agitprop. Without ever abandoning his concepts of the aesthetics of music, which tended toward free atonality, the threat of National Socialist despotism made it necessary for the Jewish avant-garde musician to respond to this threat to human freedom with his music as well. So by the end of the Second World War, he had produced various lieder and instrumental works that reflect the specific circumstances of the composer's life and hence document his development as an artist. This crucial phase of Stefan Wolpe's musical creativity, his transformation from avant-garde musician in Berlin to a pioneering mentor for New Music in America, is revealed in the works selected for the present CD."
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"Passacaglia, op. 23" (1936-37) for orchestra: The WDR Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Kalitzke, conductor; "Incidental Music" for Molière's 'Le malade imaginaire' (1934) for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and double bass; "Three Smaller Canons, op. 24a" (1936) for viola & cello; "Hexachord Suite, op. 24b" (1936) for oboe & clarinet; "Concerto for Nine Instruments, op. 22" (1937) for clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, cello & piano, ensemble recherche, Werner Herbers, conductor.
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