The years between the two world wars proved productive for many composers in Europe, despite cultural and political instability and the growing threat of Nazism. Yet in the aftermath of World War II, despite many efforts to revive music which the Nazis had condemned as degenerate, several composers remained in the shadows, and the work of resuscitating their music continues. Unheard, a 2017 release on Channel Classics, presents world premiere recordings by the Ebony Quartet of compositions that have never appeared on LP or ...
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The years between the two world wars proved productive for many composers in Europe, despite cultural and political instability and the growing threat of Nazism. Yet in the aftermath of World War II, despite many efforts to revive music which the Nazis had condemned as degenerate, several composers remained in the shadows, and the work of resuscitating their music continues. Unheard, a 2017 release on Channel Classics, presents world premiere recordings by the Ebony Quartet of compositions that have never appeared on LP or CD, and the selections by Erich Itor Kahn, Hans Walter Süsskind, Josef Matthias Hauer, Otto Jokl, and Louis Gruenberg are given lucid readings that necessarily serve as all-too-brief introductions to their music. While Süsskind established a successful career after WWII as a conductor, the vocal music heard here is from his youth, and Hauer is mostly known to music theorists for his discovery of a method of 12-tone composition, independent of Schoenberg's system; and even though some...
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