Viktor Ullmann: Piano Sonatas 4, 5, 6 & 7
Maria Garzon (piano)
All in all, the performances are very solidly anchored and mindful of the harrowing backdrop to the music. Interestingly, despite the darker references, which are powerfully evident, there is...
Viktor Ullmann: Piano Sonatas 4, 5, 6 & 7
Maria Garzon (piano)
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All in all, the performances are very solidly anchored and mindful of the harrowing backdrop to the music. Interestingly, despite the darker references, which are powerfully evident, there is...
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Viktor Ullmann was a Czech composer who studied with Arnold Schoenberg and was later persecuted by the Nazis for being a Jew. He was incarcerated in Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942 where the 5th, 6th and 7th sonatas were composed before he was taken to Auschwitz in 1944. He did not survive. Maria Garzon gives new performances of these emotionally charged works and it is hoped that this disc will go some way to initiate a re-appraisal of Ullmann’s life and oeuvre.
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June 2013
All in all, the performances are very solidly anchored and mindful of the harrowing backdrop to the music. Interestingly, despite the darker references, which are powerfully evident, there is a good deal of mood contrast in these four works.
27th May 2013
Garzón plays all four of these valuable works with obvious reverence allowing the music to sing out and weave its spell...I commend this disc to any admirer of Ullmann and the other composers who perished in the holocaust.
