1927-1929: Brücken aus dem Gestern (Orchesterwerke jüdischer Komponisten)

Featuring

Roland Böer
Cora Irsen
Capitol Symphony Orchestra
Bernhard Sekles
Juliusz Wolfsohn
Jaromír Weinberger

Werner Richard Heymann

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Album & Artwork

This album is designed to be like a long-lost photo album, but instead of pictures, it's a scrapbook of sounds, highlighting music from 1927 to 1929.

Compositional Technique

Juliusz Wolfsohn, a composer and concert pianist, incorporated elements of Jewish Klezmer and Gypsy bands into his music, characterized by improvisation, rhapsodic forms, and rich ornamentation.

Recording & Production

The manuscript score for Juliusz Wolfsohn's Hebrew Suite was provided by the National Library of Israel, and fragmentary orchestral materials for Werner Richard Heymann's film music were from the Austrian National Library.

Historical Context

The music on this album was created on the eve of National Socialism, and many of the composers' works were later banned by the Nazis.

Performer Biography

Pianist Cora Irsen is a laureate of the International Franz Liszt Competition Weimar and the International Chopin Competition Göttingen, and has toured extensively as a soloist and chamber musician.

Composer's Artistic Vision

The album aims to show that Jewish composers contributed equally to the vast treasure of valuable musical works, challenging the notion that their significant music is merely an exception.

Composer Biography

Bernhard Sekles, a composer featured on this album, established the first jazz class at a German music conservatory in Frankfurt in the same year he composed 'The Dybbuk'.