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DCV 410 – Forbidden Music Regained 2021

DCV 410

Forbidden Music Regained 2021

Various Artists

Booklet:

Composer

Leo Smit

Leo Smit was born to a wealthy, non-orthodox Portuguese Jewish family, on May 14, 1900 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Together with his wife he was deported by the Germans in 1943, via Westerbork to Sobibór extermination camp. Uopn arrival, they were immediately annihilated.
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‘Forbidden Music Regained’, one of the programs of the Prisma Festival (Canada), will give stage to the chamber works by Dutch composers Lex van Delden, Leo Smit, Henriette Bosmans and Jan van Gilse.
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Fania Chapiro was born on June 10, 1926 in Surabaya (Indonesia). Her father was of Russian origin and her mother Dutch. She died on December 6, 1994 in Hilversum. She received her first music lessons from her father Nohoum Chapiro, a violinist, when she was three years old.
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Together with the Leo Smit Foundation and the Netherlands Music Institute, Donemus is inviting you to the presentation of 'Forbidden Music Regained', a series of in total 50 scores in two volumes...   
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Leo Smit’s Schemselnihar for orchestra (1929) in the program ‘Arts Potpourri’ in the Manchester Symphony Orchestra’s 84th Season.
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The Leo Smit Foundation, the Nederlands Muziek Instituut and Donemus would like to invite you to the Second Festival Forbidden Music Regained on Saturday afternoon 12 November. After the success of our first festival in November 2021, the Conservatorium van Amsterdam invited us to organise such a festival again.
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On January 27, the international Holocaust Remembrance Day, a special ceremony with precence of different embassies, will be held in Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre in Moscow.
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Schemselnihar for orchestra by Leo Smit on the afternoon program by the Rijnlands Symfonie Orchestra under Ghislain Bellefroid.
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Premiere of the Concert for Viola and String Orchestra by Leo Smit in Mexico
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Maurice Ravel’s song cycle Shéhérazade, based on stories from the One Thousand and One Nights, is filled with the flavours of the Middle East, which, in the early twentieth century, exerted a strong influence on West Europeans.
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Maurice Ravel’s song cycle Shéhérazade, based on stories from the One Thousand and One Nights, is filled with the flavours of the Middle East, which, in the early twentieth century, exerted a strong influence on West Europeans.
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DCV 507 Forbidden Music Regained 2022 Various Artists
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Donemus, in collaboration with the Leo Smit Foundation and the Netherlands Music Institute, is proud to present a new volume in its series “Forbidden Music Regained.” This completes the series of 100 titles, ranging from solo and chamber works to orchestral works to operas and oratorios.
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On December 9th, the 3rd Forbidden Music Regained Festival was held at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. The festival featured many musicians and speakers.
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Reawakening Suppressed Music is a three-year project dedicated to recording and sharing some of the “forgotten” symphonic works written by persecuted composers who suffered under the Nazis, as well as bringing to the public awareness other banned musical treasures that otherwise will be lost forever.
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DCV 522 Forbidden Music Regained 2023 Various Artists
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Our Team’s Picks

Composers in the crosshairs of our attention

Composer

Jan-Peter de Graaff

Netherlands, 1992,
"De Graaff is een alleskunner en een echte en helder opflitsende komeet aan het muzikale firmament die aan niemand ongemerkt voorbij kan gaan." - Maarten Brandt, Opus Klassiek
"De Graaff is een tovenaar met orkestkleuren in een taal die weliswaar van nu is, maar harmonisch ook vaak vertrouwd klinkt." - Paul Herruer, Dagblad van het Noorden
"De Graaffs grootste kracht schuilt in een paradox: stilstand die zindert van spanning." - Guido van Oorschot, De Volkskrant 
 
"Zijn muziek is in essentie atonaal, maar doordat ze niet is doodgesystematiseerd en De Graaff in de contouren en het verloop van zijn melodieën nog steeds romantisch durft te zijn, wordt de luisteraar met zachte, maar dwingende hand meegevoerd in het abstracte verhaal dat hij wil vertellen. Een grote troef is hierbij zijn orkestratiekunst. De muziek is kleurrijk, blijft altijd helder en verrassend." - Erik Voermans, Het Parool
 
"Had iemand mij van te voren voorspeld dat in een programma van Bach, Bartók en Jan-Peter de Graaff het stuk van de laatste mij het meest zou boeien, dan had ik dat niet geloofd. - Dingeman van Wijnen, Friesch Dagblad
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Composer

Michael Fine

Education Michael has a degree in English Literature from the State University of New York. Despite having no formal music education, he has an active international career in several aspects of the music business.
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Composer

Maxim Shalygin

January 30, 1985

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

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Composer

Celia Swart

Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a new music composer, saxophone player and visual artist. Growing up playing saxophone and piano, she found her love for composing.
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