Hindmars / Œuvres pour hautbois, cor anglais et piano

Description

Our work focused on rare or unpublished documents related to World War II – a pivotal period in the history of music and the lives of composers – has resulted in two acclaimed recordings: In memoriam Pavel Haas VDE Gallo 1426 and Au cœur du XXe siècle, Claves 1810. After exploring composers from Central Europe and France, we are now turning to the Germanic sphere in this carefully crafted third album. The possibility of continuing to create music during the rise of the brown plague, and the experience of exile – whether in the United States, Switzerland, the USSR, or Palestine – are the major underlying themes of this program that completes our trilogy. The notion of "degenerate music," as defined by the Nazi regime during the Düsseldorf exhibition in 1938, applies to both Hindemith's modernism and the early days of jazz, this so-called "black" music that thrived in Paris and Weimar-era Berlin.