Laks - Works for Cello
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Label: Cybele
Cat No: CYBELESACD362203
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 4th November 2022
Contents
Artists
Adele Bitter (cello)Mischa Meyer (cello)
Holger Groschopp (piano)
Works
Cello SonataDialogue
Les Filles du forgeron
Passacaille (Vocalise)
Pieces de concert (3)
Artists
Adele Bitter (cello)Mischa Meyer (cello)
Holger Groschopp (piano)
About
This subset of his output draws a line through almost the entirety of Laks's life.
Simon Laks was born in Warsaw in 1901, studied mathematics in Vilnius and music in his hometown and in Paris, where he lived permanently from 1926 and Frenchified his first name from Szymon to Simon.
Contemporary musical life in Paris was abundant. Initially sustaining himself by making music in cafés and on the seas, Laks gradually carved out creative space for himself in Parisian musical life. Contacts with numerous well-known musicians are documented. His engagement with the Association des jeunes musiciens polonais (Association of Young Polish Musicians) was likely the most important stepping-stone for his presence on the music scene. He maintained an extensive network; it seems nonetheless that his personality was endowed with a characteristic humility that never really allowed him to step into the front row, into the limelight.
1941 proved to be the decisive year in his life. In May, due to his Jewish origins, he was interned in the Beaune-la-Rolande concentration camp (between Paris and Orléans), from where he was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in July 1942. He finally spent the last months of the war from October 1944 until the American liberation in Sachsenhausen and Dachau. He was only able to survive the time in Auschwitz because his musical skills enabled him to conduct the camp orchestra.
The attention that the composer receives as part of the culture of remembering the Holocaust nonetheless harbours a trap: feeling satisfied with performances of his works on the usual memorial days or during relevant symposia – a renewed ghettoisation – becomes all too easy while thereby forgetting that music of this quality ought to find its place in normal concert seasons.
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