Julius Bürger
ORF Radio-Symphony Orchestra Vienna
Celloconcerto | Songs for Orchestra | Eastern Symphony
Julius Bürger
A Journey in Exile – The Lieder of Julius Burger
Ryan Hugh Ross
Siân Màiri Cameron
Nicola Rose
Daniel Rieppel
The eventful life and colourful career of the Viennese composer Julius Bürger (1897-1995) intersected with many important personalities of 20th century music such as Egon Wellesz, Franz Schreker, Guido Adler, Bruno Walter and Otto Klemperer. Despite his success at international opera houses and radio stations, Bürger’s true path as a composer was changed forever by the rise of National Socialism. Having fled to London, he arranged for the BBC and created the ‘radio potpourri’ genre, but his original compositions (songs, chamber music and orchestral works) also display the typical characteristics of a master of his craft. Although he continued to compose during his decades in exile in the USA, a wealth of works remained unperformed and hidden until they were brought back to light in the last years of his life by his estate lawyer Ronald S. Pohl in New York City. Julius Bürger’s estate is in the archive of the Exilarte Centre of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and is published by G. Schirmer / Wise Music and made available worldwide.
Hans Winterberg
Chamber Music Vol. 1
String Quartet No. 1 | Cello Sonata | Violin Sonata
Suites for Trumpet and Piano and Viola and Piano
Eda Records (EDA 51)
Hans Winterberg
Chamber Music Vol. 2
Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano | Suite for Trumpet and Piano No. 2
“There and Here” | Suites for Violin and Piano & Clarinet and Piano
Piano Trio “Memories of the Sudeten Mountains”
Eda Records (EDA 53)
In cooperation with Exilarte, the Berlin label EDA Records is dedicating a focus to the chamber music and piano works of Hans Winterberg, the only significant surviving Czech-Jewish composer of his generation. The CDs are available in stores, on all known streaming platforms. Purchased editions of the sheet music are available from Schott Music.
Hans Winterberg – Piano Music
Vol. 1
Sonata for Piano No. 2 | Four Intermezzi | Suite Theresienstadt | Suite for Piano |
7 Neo-Impressionist Pieces in Twelve-Tone
Hans Winterberg – Piano Music
Vol. 2
Toccata | Piano Sonata No. 1 | Impressionist Piano Suite | Suite for Piano | “Memories to Bohemia”
Hans Winterberg – Chamber Music
Vol. 1
Suite for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and Harpsichord | Suite for Clarinet and Piano | Sonata for Cello and Piano | Wind Quintet | Suite for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano
Hans Winterberg – Chamber Music
Vol. 2
String Quartet No.2 | String Quartet No. 3 | String Quartet No. 4
For further information, please contact: info@exilarte.org or visit the Toccata Classics website.
Hans Winterberg – Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Johannes Kalitze
Jonathan Powell
Sinfonia drammatica | Piano Concerto No. 1 | Rhythmophonie
Hans Winterberg, born in Prague in 1901, studied with Alexander Zemlinsky and Alois Hába. He worked as a conductor and freelance composer until the annexation of the Czechoslovak Republic by Nazi Germany in 1939. As the scion of a Jewish family that had lived in Prague for centuries, he survived the Holocaust through a series of miracles. After the Communists came to power in Czechoslovakia, he moved to Germany. His compositional legacy, locked away for years in a German music archive, has only been rediscovered in recent years. Winterberg’s music combines a wide variety of influences to create a highly original and exciting personal style. He takes up essential stylistic elements of Janáček but is also influences by the Second Viennese School and French Impressionism. He saw himself as a bridge-builder between the cultures of Eastern and Western Europe.
Walter Arlen
Die letzte Blaue
(2 CDs)
Daniel Wnukowski, Piano
Rebecca Nelsen, Soprano
Christian Immler, Bariton
Daniel Hope, Violin
Gramola 98996
The disaster of the extinction of culture and civil society by the Nazi regime, intensified by his own dismay and enforced exile, constitutes the basis of Walter Arlen’s compositional oeuvre. This downfall is symbolized by Die letzte Blaue, the name of the last night-time tram of Vienna Transport, identifiable by its blue light, and a homage to an unforgettable hit of the time. Apart from works like this one for piano solo (Monotypes, Mementos), this double CD by the Polish-Canadian pianist Daniel Wnukowski also contains works for piano and violin (Daniel Hope) and songs for soprano (Rebecca Nelsen) and baritone (Christian Immler). A unique feature is the three-part work ARBEIT MACHT FREI for piano and metronome, which was written in 1995 after a visit to the former extermination camp of Auschwitz.
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To buy this CD, please contact info@exilarte.org | Price: € 20
You can also purchase the CD as download.
Walter Arlen
English Symphony Orchestra | BCC
Women’s Chorus of Wals | Kenneth Woods | Anna Huntley | Gwilym Bowen | Thomas Mole
The Song of Songs | Poet in Exile
Walter Arlen
Things turn out differently
(2 CDs)
Rebecca Nelsen, Soprano
Christian Immler, Bariton
Danny Driver, Piano
Gramola 98946/47
Walter Arlen is one of the last surviving composers of a generation that could have been wiped out by the Nazis: After escaping from Vienna in 1939, he not only became a music critic for the Los Angeles Times, but as founder of the Music Department at Loyola Marymount University he contributed significantly to the cultural transfer of Austria’s musical tradition. Arlen, born in 1920, has always been a miniaturist, composing tonally. A huge cross-section of his major works can now be heard on this double CD.
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To buy this CD, please contact info@exilarte.org | Price: €20
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The Ox on the Roof and other Bans – Milhaud • Schönberg • Gal • Schulhoff
(1 CD)
Friederike Haufe, Piano
Volker Ahmels, Piano
Gramola 98892
The perfectly attuned German piano duo Friederike Haufe and Volker Ahmels, who in countless concert projects have committed themselves to the topic of ‘outlawed music’, i.e. works banned by the Nazis, and acquired an international reputation with their much heeded debut in Israel and the autonomous Palestinian territories in 1997, in their first recording for Gramola present an exceptional programme in every respect and one marking the way for the treatment of this period in musical history. Rarely performed works for piano four-hands by composers of the 20th century, whose lives were marked by persecution, exile or murder, such as Darius Milhaud, Leo Smit, Ernst Toch, Arnold Schoenberg, Hans Gál and Erwin Schulhoff constitute an impressive enrichment of the traditional repertoire for this instrumentation.
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To buy this CD, please contact info@exilarte.org | Price: €16
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Hans Gál – The Right Tempo
(1 CD)
Ulrike Anton, Flute
Russell Ryan, Piano
Cornelia Löscher, Violin
Wolfhart Schuster, Violin
Gramola 98896
The Austrian composer Hans Gál (1890-1987) spent his early years as a Brahms researcher and advanced to one of the most frequently performed composers of the 1920s and early 1930s. Among other publications he also wrote the famous ‘Instructions on Reading Scores’, taught composition and became the director of the Music Academy in Mainz in 1929. In 1933, he was forced to emigrate with his family to Austria and then to Great Britain in 1938 were he was interned as an enemy alien. He later became a lecturer for music at the University of Edinburgh. The CD introduces you to wonderful chamber music: Three Sketches for Piano, Three Intermezzi for Flute and Piano, the Sonata for Two Violins and Piano and the ‘Huyton Suite’ for Flute and Two Violins.
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To buy this CD, please contact info@exilarte.org | Price: €16
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Treasures from the exil.arte Center
(1 CD, 1 DVD)
CD
Students and young graduates of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna interpret works by Julius Bürger, Hans Gál, Wilhelm Grosz, André Singer and Hans Winterberg.
DVD
Walter Arlen´s First Century, a documentary by Stephanus Domanig
mdw 2020
