new album
In 1938, during the Reichsmusiktage in Düsseldorf, 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, 'music bolshevism'.
Gustav Mahler, Alban Berg, Arnold Schönberg, Kurt Weill, Ernst Krenek, Hanns Eisler, Paul Hindemith, 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.
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 now they resound again...
the album Entartete Musik is out now on streaming platforms
read the review by De Standaard
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TRACKLIST
- Gustav Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn: XII. Urlicht (arr. Clytus Gottwald)
- Mischa SpolianskyDas Lila-Lied 02:51 (arr. Daniel Capelletti)
- Erwin SchulhoffSuite dansante en jazz, WV 98: Fox-Trot
- Kurt WeillMarie Galante: Youkali (arr. Daniel Capelletti)
- Mischa SpolianskyL'heure Bleue ( arr. Daniel Capelletti)
- Alma Mahler-Werfel5 Lieder: I. Die stille Stadt (arr. Clytus Gottwald)
- Ilse WeberIch wandre durch Theresienstadt (arr. Winfried Radeke)
- Hanns Eisler & Kurt TucholskyDer Graben (arr. Daniel Capelletti)
- Viktor Ullmann3 Yiddish Lieder, Op. 53: No. 1, Berjoskele
- Gideon KleinCzech and Russian Folk Songs: Uz Mne Kone Vyvadeji
- Ilse WeberWiegala (arr. Alain De Ley)
- Carlo Sigmund TaubeEin jüdisches Kind ( arr. Daniel Capelletti)
- Gideon KleinLullaby - Ukolébavka
- Gustav MahlerSymphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor: IV. Adagietto, "Im Abendrot" (arr. Clytus Gottwald)