EntArteOpera Festival: Concerto for Violin & Double Concertos

Featuring

Doron Salomon
Thomas Albertus Irnberger
Milena Viotti
Reinhard Wieser
Martin Sieghart
Michael Korstick

Vienna Konzertverein Orchestra
Israel Chamber Orchestra
Georgisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt
Ethel Smyth
Vítězslava Kaprálová
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Bohuslav Martinů

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Composition History

Karl Amadeus Hartmann's 'Concerto funebre' was a direct reaction to the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the National Socialists in 1939.

Composer Biography

Ethel Smyth, a composer featured on this album, was a suffragette who was imprisoned for two months in 1912 for breaking windows in support of the women's movement.

Composer Biography

Bohuslav Martinů, a composer on this album, was expelled from the Prague Conservatory in 1910 for 'incorrigible negligence'.

Composer Biography

Vítězslava Kaprálová, another composer on this album, died at the age of 25, likely from typhoid, only two months after her marriage and shortly after the German invasion of France.

Historical Context

The term 'degenerate music' was used by the Nazi regime to defame music that did not align with its ideology, including modern, atonal, jazz, and Jewish music.

Album & Artwork

The EntArteOpera Festival is dedicated to the living culture of memory, focusing on music defamed as 'degenerate' by the Nazi regime.

Composition History

Vítězslava Kaprálová's Concertino for Violin, Clarinet and Orchestra, Op. 21, was left unfinished at her death and was completed by Miloš Štědroň and Leoš Faltus.