KZ Musik: Encyclopedia of Music Composed in Concentration Camps, CD 3

Francesco Lotoro - KZ Musik: Encyclopedia of Music Composed in Concentration Camps, CD 3

KZ Musik: Encyclopedia of Music Composed in Concentration Camps, CD 3
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Artist: Francesco Lotoro
Composer: Gideon Klein
Composer: Zikmund Schul
Composer: Viktor Ullmann
Conductor: Lotoro
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-07-28
Music Label: KZ Musik
Soundtracks:
  1. Sonata for piano: Allegro con fuoco
  2. Sonata for piano: Adagio
  3. Sonata for piano: Allegro vivace
  4. Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 45: Allegro con brio - Meno mosso
  5. Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 45: Andante
  6. Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 45: Toccatina. Vivace
  7. Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 45: Serenade. Comodo - Meno mosso
  8. Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 45: Finale fugato. Allegro molto
  9. Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 49: Allegro molto - Andante poco adagio
  10. Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 49: Allegretto grazioso
  11. Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 49: Presto ma non troppo - Tempo primo
  12. Piano Sonata No. 7: Allegro. Gemächliches Halb
  13. Piano Sonata No. 7: Alla marcia, ben misurato
  14. Piano Sonata No. 7: Adagio, ma con moto
  15. Piano Sonata No. 7: Scherzo. Allegretto grazioso - Trio - Scherzo
  16. Piano Sonata No. 7: Variationen und Fuge über ein hebräisches Volkslied (Allegro giocoso energico, martellato sempre)
  17. Cadenza for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15
  18. Cadenza for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 37
  19. Eine Fuge, for piano

Music reviews of KZ Musik: Encyclopedia of Music Composed in Concentration Camps, CD 3

Music Review: Piano Works by Klein, Ullmann & Schul Written in Theresienstadt (Terezín)
Rating: 5 Stars

This CD is the Third Volume in a series from KZ Musik which is effectively an encyclopedia of music composed in various Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. All three of the composers represented on this disc wrote the present works in the 'show camp' Theresienstadt (now Terezín) and were murdered by the Nazis. This disc is devoted to solo piano works played by Francesco Lotoro who is also the director of the entire KZ Musik project.

Gideon Klein (1919-1945) was a Moravian Jew who studied with Vilém Kurz and Alois Hába. He was sent to Theresienstadt in 1941 and was later transferred to Auschwitz where he was killed in 1945. While at Theresienstadt he was an organizer of the camp's cultural life. His Piano Sonata was written in 1943 and was premiered in the camp by Pavel Stephan. Many years later it was an obligatory work at the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. It is in three movements -- fast, slow, fast -- but there was probably a fourth movement that was either not finished or was lost. It is in a language somewhat reminiscent of, but not as rigorous as, that in Schoenberg's Op. 11 Klavierstücke.

Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944) was killed in Auschwitz one day after being transferred there from Theresienstadt where he had been director of Freizeitgestaltung (leisure time activities). He had served as an officer in the Austrian army during World War I and been ennobled for his efforts. His music was influenced by Mahler, Zemlinsky and Schoenberg. This disc contains his Sonatas Nos. 5, 6 & 7, and cadenzas he wrote for Beethoven's Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3. Sonatas 5 & 7 were intended to serve as the bases for his Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 which were never completed. There is much polytonality, complex counterpoint and fleeting references to tunes from his youth (including 'Ach, du lieber Augustin' in the first movement of the Fifth Sonata, and the Tristan 'Liebestod' in the Seventh Sonata). The last movement of the Seventh Sonata is a set of variations and a fugue on Yehuda Sharett's Jewish folksong 'Song of Rachel.' The Beethoven cadenzas were written for performances by the orchestra made up of detainees in Theresienstadt.

Zikmund Schul (1916-1944) is the least known of these three composers. He had studied in Prague with Alois Hába and was briefly a student of Hindemith in Berlin. He was interested in Jewish liturgical music. His Fugue was probably started in Prague and finished at Theresienstadt. This three-minute piece is written in Hindemithian free counterpoint and sounds to be quite technically difficult. Pianist Francesco Lotoro displays his fine pianistic skills here and throughout this disc.

Scott Morrison

Description of KZ Musik: Encyclopedia of Music Composed in Concentration Camps, CD 3

KZ Musik is the most up-to-date and complete CD-Encyclopedia of concentrationary music. All the music was composed between 1933 and 1945. The music was composed by those who were imprisoned, deported, murdered and some who survived. KZ Musik is the result of extensive research by Italian pianist and conductor Francesco Lotoro. Each CD booklet contains a profile of the Authors, their works and the Camps where the music was composed.

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