Vlaams Radiokoor – Entartete Musik

Contents

Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn : XII. Urlicht /Vlaams Radiokoor & Bart Van Reyn

Spoliansky: Das Lila Lied /Estelle Lefort & Brussels Philharmonic Soloists

Schulhoff: Suite dansante en jazz, WV 98 /Koenraad Sterckx

Weill, K: Youkali /Estelle Lefort, Brussels Philharmonic Soloists & Bart Van Reyn

Spoliansky: L’heure bleue /Estelle Lefort, Brussels Philharmonic Soloists, Bart Van Reyn

Alma Mahler, Alma Mahler – Werfel: 5 Lieder: I. Die stille Stadt /Vlaams Radiokoor & Bart Van Reyn

Weber, I: Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt /Vlaams Radiokoor & Bart Van Reyn

Eisler: Der Graben /Vlaams Radiokoor, Brussels Philharmonic Soloists & Bart Van Reyn

Ullmann, V: 3 Jiddische Lieder, Op. 53: No. 1, Berjoskele /Estelle Lefort, Koenraad Sterckx

Klein, Gideon: Czech and Russian Folk Songs – Uz Mne Kone Vyvadeji /Vlaams Radiokoor

Weber, I: Wiegala /Vlaams Radiokoor, Brussels Philharmonic Soloists & Bart Van Reyn

Taube, C S: Ein jüdisches Kind /Vlaams Radiokoor, Brussels Philharmonic Soloists & Bart Van Reyn

Klein, Gideon: Lullaby – Ukolébavka /Koenraad Sterckx, Didier Poskin

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor: IV. Adagietto, Im Abendrot /Vlaams Radiokoor & Bart Van Reyn

Together with soprano Estelle Lefort, Vlaams Radiokoor bring a diverse program from cabaret inspired music to the big classical genre of the symphony.

In 1938, at the Reichsmusiktage in Dusseldorf, the Nazi regime opened an exhibition around music with the theme: ‘Entartete Musik’. They collected examples of what they considered degenerate music: jazz or ‘Nigger-Musik’, the atonal expressions of the Second Viennese School, music by Jewish composers, ‘music bolshevism’.

Gustav Mahler, Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler, Mischa Spoliansky; these were just a few names on the long list of depraved composers. Numerous musicians and composers felt the pinch in the early 1930s and promptly emigrated abroad, where they often had to start again from scratch. Others were deported to one of the concentration camps or, if they were more ‘lucky’, to the model ghetto in Theresienstadt.

While there, music offered a welcome distraction from the harsh conditions and continuous fear. Most of them eventually perished, and all were almost forgotten after the war. Now they sound again…