Forbidden Music In World War II

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Release Date: 2015

Label: Etcetera

"This CD box set, released seventy years after World War II ended, contains music composed by those who were persecuted during that same war; any performance of these works was strictly forbidden at the time. Nineteen Dutch composers were deported to concentration camps of which only six survived the atrocities. Others went into hiding or they survived using fake identities. Almost all saw their musical career end inopportunely.

The untimely loss of these composers dealt a severe blow to Dutch music history and as a result the musical landscape was completely altered. A new generation of musicians was eager to fill the void and during these years of reconstruction a new type of music evolved rapidly moving towards what was later called modernism. The new aesthetics pushed composers away from writing a charming melody, using harmonious chords, or pleasing and moving the audience. Pre-war music was considered corny, dilettantish, conservative and hopelessly outdated. Instead, atonality, extremism and a conceptual outlook dominated the scene. Therefore, this box set is designed to revalidate the generation of composers that was lost in the war. Over the past twenty years, The Leo Smit Foundation has done research on these maltreated, forgotten composers and their works."

10 CD box set
℗&© 2015 Etcetera Records
Made in The Netherlands

Each of the 10 discs is packaged inside an individual slip case which features front sleeve portraits of the composers and back sleeve track listing and production credits; all 10 slipcases fit inside a hinged box. Includes a 32 page booklet with notes in Dutch, English, French, and German.

Production information:
CD1: Tracks 1, 2, 3 -- NM Classics / NM 92095 / 1995 / Recording Producer: Simon Schouten / Editing Producer: Lodewijk Collette / Recording Engineer: Jan Stellingwerff / Editing Engineer: Rob Heerschop / Mastering Engineer: Marcel Booij / Mastering Producer: Jorn Mineur / Producer NPS: Marjolein de Moor
CD1: Tracks 4 to 8 -- Tatlin Records / TA 002 / 2000 / Sound Engineer & edit: Bert van Dijk, Helix Audio Producties

CD2: Tracks 1 & 4 -- Etcetera Records / KTC 1156 / 1968 / Wereldomroep Hilversum
CD2: Track 2 -- Etcetera Records / KTC 1156 / 1964 / Vara Radio Hilversum
CD2: Track 3 -- Etcetera Records / KTC 1156 / 1969 / Wereldomroep Hilversum
CD2: Tracks 5 to 7 -- NM Classics / NM 92043 / 1994 / Recording producer: Lodewijk Collette / Editing producer: Myrthe van Dijk / Recording & editing engineer: Frits Tor

CD3: Track 1 -- NM Classics / NM 92090 / 1998 / Recording engineer: George Luijten (NOB Audio) / Recording producer: Simon Schouten / Editing engineer: Gert Altena
CD3: Tracks 2 to 10 -- NM Classics / NM 92056 / 1996 / Recording producer: Lodewijk Collette / Recording & editing engineer: Frits Tor, Rob Heerschop

CD4: Tracks 1 to 26 -- Future Classics / FC 091 / 2009 / Producer: Jeff Hamburg / Sound engineer & edit: Bert van Dijk, Helix Audio Producties

CD5: Tracks 1 to 3 -- Channel Classics / CCS 7995 / 1995 / Production & sound engineer: Tom Peeters, Arnoud Probs / Executive producer: Jared Sacks
CD5: Tracks 4 to 9 -- Future Classics / FC 072 / 2002 / Producer: Jeff Hamburg / Sound engineer & edit: Bert van Dijk, Helix Audio Producties
CD5: Tracks 10 to 23 -- Attacca / Babel 8742-5 / 1986 / Production & sound engineering: Dick van Schuppen, Eva Blankenspoor, Siewert Verster

CD6: Tracks 1 to 3 -- NM Classics / NM 92040 / 1993 / Recording producer, editing producer: Lodewijk Collette / Recording Engineer: Jan Stellingwerff / Editing Engineer: Rob Heerschop, Frans Meijer, Peter Wentzel / Producer NPS: Marjolein de Moor
CD6: Tracks 4 to 9 -- Etcetera Records / KTC 1516 / 1999 / Produced by Theo Muller, Leo Smit Foundation and Donemus
CD6: Tracks 10 to 12 -- Etcetera Records / KTC 1516 / 2000 / Produced by Theo Muller, Leo Smit Foundation and Donemus / Recording, edit: Studio 7
CD6: Tracks 13 to 18 -- Etcetera Records / KTC 1516 / 1999 / Produced by Theo Muller, Leo Smit Foundation and Donemus / Recording, edit: Sem de Jongh, Michael van der Aa, Theo Muller

CD7: Tracks 1 to 24 -- Future Classics / FC 102 / 2009 / Producer: Jeff Hamburg / Sound engineer & edit: Bert van Dijk, Helix Audio Producties

CD8: Tracks 1 t0 14 -- Tatlin Records / TA 005 / 2003 / Producer: Martine Mees, Leo Smit Stichting / Sound Engineer & edit: Bert van Dijk, Helix Audio Producties
CD8: Tracks 15 to 19 -- Future Classics / FC 082 / 2008 / Producer: Jeff Hamburg / Sound engineer & edit: Bert van Dijk, Helix Audio Producties
CD8: Tracks 20 to 24 -- Future Classics / FC 052 / 2005 / Producer: Jeff Hamburg / Sound engineer & edit: Bert van Dijk, Helix Audio Producties
CD8: Tracks 25 to 27 -- Composers Voice / CV 77 / 1996 / Recordings: NPS / Recording producer: Simon Schouten / Recording engineer: Peter Wentzel / Editing engineer: George Luijten, Hans Rikkert de Koe / General producer: Marjolijn de Moor, Riet Hautvast

CD9: Tracks 1 to 7 -- RCO Live / MCCL 97018 / 1954 / KRO
CD9: Tracks 8 to 13 -- Gideon Boss Musikproduktion / GB 002 / 2006 / Producer: Gideon Boss / Recording engineer: Hans-Martin Renz, Anne Hawemann
CD9: Track 14 to 20 -- Gideon Boss Musikproduktion / GB 006 / 2011 / Producer: Gideon Boss / Recording engineer: Hans-Martin Renz, Hanna Steger

CD10: Tracks 1, 2 -- 2012 / Balans / Joods Historisch Museum / Donemus / MCN
CD10: Tracks 3 to 6 -- Globe Records / GLO 5247 / 2011 / Recording engineer: Tom Peeters, Mediatrack
CD10: Tracks 7 to 9 -- Future Classics / FC 052 / 2005 / Producer: Jeff Hamburg / Sound engineer & edit: Bert van Dijk, Helix Audio Producties
CD10: Tracks 10 to 12 -- Future Classics / FC 082 / 2008 / Producer: Jeff Hamburg / Sound engineer & edit: Bert van Dijk, Helix Audio Producties
CD10: Track 13 -- 2006 / Leo Smit Stichting / NPS
CD10: Track 14 -- 2005 / Leo Smit Stichting / NPS
CD10: Tracks 15 to 19 -- BV Haast / CD 9616 / 1960 / Production: Konrad Boehmer

Error Notes:
CD1 -- Back sleeve tracklist mistakenly identifies performing artist Jacques Zoon with "piano" rather than "flute" (Track 1) in the Concertstuk Voor Fluit En Kammerorkest; sleeve tracklist mistakenly identifies the Poème Voor Cello En Orkest as Poème Voor Piano En Orkest (Track 2) but does list the performer Dmitri Ferschtman with "cello". Both corrections are included in the posted tracklist.
CD2 -- Back sleeve tracklist gives timing of Track 3 as an improbable 19:197. (Actual clocked timing is 19:19.) This timing is corrected to 19:19 in the posted tracklist for track 2-3.
CD3 -- Back sleeve lists performers of the three works of Tracks 2 to 10 as Viotta Ensemble, Ebony Quartet. This identification is retained in the posted information.
CD4 -- Back sleeve identifies the fifth movement of Palestinian Songs (Track 10) as 10] II. V. Simcha Jeroesjalajiem. It should be listed only with the V and not the II. Correction was made to posted information in tracklisting 4-10.
CD5 -- Back sleeve features alternate spellings ("Incantazione" and "Incantazionne") for Tracks 4, 6, and 8 of the Divertimento: Tracks 4 and 8 use the former, Track 6 the latter. No changes were made to the spellings in the posted information for tracks 5-4, 5-6, and 5-8.

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