Hans Winterberg: Piano Music, Vol. 2

Contents

Hans Winterberg (1901–91)

Toccata für Klavier

Piano Sonata No. 1

Impressionistische Klaviersuite

Suite for Piano “1956”

Erinnerungen an Böhmen

No. 1, Baumblüte im Elbtal

No. 2, Ein Sommertag am Hirschberger See

No. 3, Prag im Herbst

No. 4, Winterwanderung

The tale of Hans Winterberg (1901–91) is a strange one. A survivor of the Terezín concentration camp, where he had been interned as a Czech Jew, he settled in Munich after the War as a German citizen, and his music enjoyed a number of broadcasts – but with his death his estate disappeared into a legal limbo, emerging only in 2015. This second album of his piano music reveals an unusual and individual voice, an idiosyncratic blend of Janácek, Ravel, Schoenberg and other mid-twentieth-century masters, animated by a hard-edged, freewheeling energy and grim humor reminiscent of his close contemporary, Nikos Skalkottas.