Brigitte Helbig — Winterberg: Piano Music Vol.2 (2021)

FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 58:53 | 179 MbClassical, Instrumental

The tale of Hans Winterberg (1901-91) is a strange one. A survivor of the Terezín concentration camp, where he had been interned as a Czech Jew, he settled in Munich after the War as a German citizen, and his music enjoyed a number of broadcasts — but with his death his estate disappeared into a legal limbo, emeg only in 2015. This second album of his piano music reveals an unusual and individual voice, an idiosyncratic blend of Janáček, Ravel, Schoenberg and other mid-twentieth-century masters, animated by a hard-edged, freewheeling energy and grim humour riscent of his close contemporary, Nikos Skalkottas.
1. Toccata für Klavier
2. I. Agitato
3. II. Adagio
4. III. Molto vivace
5. I. Prestissimo leggiero molto
6. II. Con moto
7. III. Vivacissimo
8. I. Sehr schnelle Sechzehntel
9. II. Mässige Achtel
10. III. Lebhaft
11. IV. Lebhaft, energisch
12. No. 1, Baumblüte im Elbtal
13. No. 2, Ein Sommertag am Hirschberger See
14. No. 3, Prag im Herbst
15. No. 4, Winterwanderung