Streichquartette
Streichquartette
表演者: Hawthorne Quartet
流派: 古典
专辑类型: Import
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 1994-01-01
唱片数: 1
出版者: Imports
条形码: 0028944085327
专辑简介
The music of the lost generation which died in Auschwitz is at last coming to wider public attention. Haas and Krása, both born in 1899, produced music of vision, humour and poignancy, much of which is touched by genius. The latest addition to Decca’s ‘Entartete Musik’ series of music suppressed by the Third Reich, which features string quartets by the two composers, is a revelation. Both men in their early 20s had an imagination and technical facility matching that of their compatriot Martinu; that they did not live to fulful this promise and further enrich the Czech and European tradition is but one of the many crimes of Nazism. Haas’s Second Quartet (1925) often leans heavily on his teacher Janácek, but it is unfailingly ear-catching and shot through with true originality. Krása, four years earlier, is in his First Quartet even more challenging, though his musical language never turns the listener away. Haas’s Third Quartet (1938) is both stirring and more integrated in style – a moving testament to Slavonic courage in the face of approaching tyranny. The Hawthorne Quartet plays this music with a passion and feeling for idiom which radiates from every bar. Excellently recorded and presented, this is an issue which no one who cares about 20th-century music can afford to ignore. Performance: 5 (out of 5), Sound: 5 (out of 5)
Jan Smaczny
"In 1941, Haas was deported to the concentration camp of Theresienstadt(Terezín). He was one of several Czech-Jewish composers there, including Viktor Ullmann, Gideon Klein and Hans Krása. Prior to his arrest, he had officially divorced his wife Soňa in order that she and their young daughter would not suffer a similar fate. On his arrival, he became very depressed and had to be coaxed into composition by Gideon Klein. However, Haas wrote at least eight compositions in the camp, unfortunately only a few of which have survived. They include a set of Four Songs on Chinese Poetry for baritone and piano and the Study for String Orchestra which was premiered in Theresienstadt under the Czech conductor Karel An?erl and is probably Haas' best-known work today. The orchestral parts was found by An?erl after the liberation of Theresienstadt and the score reconstructed.
In 1944 the Nazis remodeled Theresienstadt just before a visit from the Red Cross and a propaganda film was made. In the film Theresienstadt, children are seen singing Krása's opera Brundibar and Haas can be seen taking a bow after the performance of his Study for Strings. When the propaganda project was over, the Nazis transferred 18,000 prisoners, including Haas and the children who had sung in Brundibar, to Auschwitz-Birkenauwhere they were murdered in the gas chambers. According to the testimony of Karel An?erl, Haas stood next to him after the arrival at Auschwitz. Dr. Mengele was about to send An?erl to the gas chamber first, but weakened Haas began to cough and the death sentence was therefore chosen for him. After the war An?erl met with Haas' brother Hugo and told him the story."
曲目
Str Qt: Molto Lento E Tranquillo
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