On Monday, February 17, 1997 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, jaq...@en.com wrote:
> In article <3307F8...@labyrinth.net.au>, minh...@labyrinth.net.au wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > After watching a fantastic documentary yesterday afternoon called 'Music
> > from Terezin' I'm now searching for recordings of works by Gideon Klein,
> > Hans Krasa, Pavel Haas and Viktor Ullman. Aside from this doco, the only
> > other time I have heard their music is on a taped live performance from
> > the Holland Festival (performed by the Nieuw Ensemble) which was
> > broadcasted on our national classical radio station a few months ago.
> > I'd appreciate any help that anyone could offer me, as I have no idea
> > where to start looking and I'm desperate to find some recordings!
> >
> Channel Classics (of the Netherlands) has a whole series of chamber
> music. The CD I have (CCS 1691) contains chamber music of Gideon Klein
> (String trio, Fantasie a Fuga, Quartet op.2, and Piano Sonata) and Viktor
> Ullman (Quartet #3)
> Of the Theresienstadt composers, it is Ullman who IMHO has the best claim
> to greatness. There is a set out of the 7 piano sonatas (sorry, don't
> have label or artist- borrowed it from the library and can't remember),
> They are all later works, and the last 3 were written in camp, which helps
> answer the question of how the experience affected the music. I've always
> wondered whether the...uh...creepiness (for want of a better word) is
> implicit in the music, or something I put there subjectively with
> historical hindsight, going so far as to weave fantasies about "Mr. Klein,
> the dear old piano teacher from Brooklyn." to compensate. Folks, IT'S
> THERE- how could it not be?
> I'd second Eric Schissel's recommendation of _The Emperor of Atlantis_.
> It's part of Decca's "Entartete Musik" series, rehabilitating the
> composers the Nazis opposed. Quite a bit of Schulhoff (who can be very
> good), Goldschmidt (not convinced yet), etc.
> In the U.S., most of the print music is available through Theodore Presser.
> --
> Jeffrey Quick
> http://www.en.com/users/jaquick

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