Karel Reiner (1910–79) : Music for Cello
Toccata Classics TOCC0083
Sebastian Foron, cello
Matti Raekallio, piano
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Zdenĕk Mácal, conductor

• Cello concerto Op.34 (1942-43)
• Sonata Brevis for cello and piano Op.39 (1946)
• Elegy and Capriccio (1957-60)
• Verses for viola (played on cello) and piano (1975)

"Karel Reiner – a major missing voice in Czech music – suffered under both of twentieth-century Europe’s major tyrannies. As a Jew he was imprisoned by the Nazis, miraculously surviving a series of atrocities: Terezín, Auschwitz, a camp near Dachau and a death march. Then, back in Prague after the War, he was accused of ‘formalism’ by the Communists. This first CD of a series reviving Reiner’s music presents the large-scale Concerto he completed just before his internment in Terezín – and first heard, in this live performance, only in 2010 – and three chamber pieces which evolve though echoes of Janáček and Martinů to the brittle humour of the Stravinskyan Verses, one of his last works."

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