Entartete Musik
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Label: Antarctica
Cat No: AR051
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 25th August 2023
Contents
Works
Der GrabenCzech and Russian Folk Songs
Lieder (5) (1911)
Das Lila Lied
L'heure bleue
Ein judisches Kind
Jiddische Lieder (3), op.53
Wiegala
Youkali
Artists
Estelle Lefort (soprano)Vlaams Radiokoor
Brussels Philharmonic Soloists
Conductor
Bart Van ReynWorks
Der GrabenCzech and Russian Folk Songs
Lieder (5) (1911)
Das Lila Lied
L'heure bleue
Ein judisches Kind
Jiddische Lieder (3), op.53
Wiegala
Youkali
Artists
Estelle Lefort (soprano)Vlaams Radiokoor
Brussels Philharmonic Soloists
Conductor
Bart Van ReynAbout
In 1938, at the Reichsmusiktage in Dusseldorf, the Nazi regime opened an exhibition around music with the theme: 'Entartete Musik'. They collected examples of what they considered degenerate music: jazz or 'Nigger-Musik', the atonal expressions of the Second Viennese School, music by Jewish composers, 'musical bolshevism'.
Gustav Mahler, Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler, Mischa Spoliansky; these were just a few names on the long list of depraved composers. Numerous musicians and composers felt the pinch in the early 1930s and promptly emigrated abroad, where they often had to start again from scratch. Others were deported to one of the concentration camps or, if they were more 'lucky', to the model ghetto in Theresienstadt.
While there, music offered a welcome distraction from the harsh conditions and continuous fear. Most of them eventually perished, and all were almost forgotten after the war. Now they sound again...
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