Nov 10, 2015 | Sabine Wiedemann News Video Anne-Cathérine Heinzmann / Thomas Hoppe

W​atch impressions from the recording session with Anne-Cathérine Heinzmann (flute) and Thomas Hoppe (piano) for Schulhoff - Smit - Gál - Raphael - Tansman (Works for Flute and Piano) - their second audite album.  Check out also the artists'  first album with works by French composers (Poulenc, Hindemith, Dutilleux , Muczynski, Martin; audite 92.667).

Five intensive and virtuoso works by five composers of the 20th century. In their respective aesthetics, each composer shares the ability to use forms and models of music history as inspiration for his own modern musical language. Existentially, they shared a common fate: all were persecuted by the National Socialists. Some were murdered in concentration camps and others fled to continue their lives in exile.

Leo Smit, Alexandre Tansman and Erwin Schulhoff were inspired by French music, including Claude Debussy's sense for the magic of sound and melodic elaboration and the openness towards jazz shown by the Parisian musical scene. For Günter Raphael, classical clarity and romantic differentiation were decisive ideals; in his late Intermezzi, Hans Gál looked back at his artistic origins in the circle surrounding Johannes Brahms. These five intensive, virtuoso works shed light on facets of an age to which attention is otherwise but rarely paid.

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