The tale of Hans Winterberg (1901–91) is a strange one.
A survivor of the Terezín
concentration camp, where he had been interned as a Czech Jew, he
settled in Munich after the Second World War as a German citizen,
and his music enjoyed a number of broadcasts –
but with his death
his estate disappeared into a legal limbo, emerging only in 2015.
This first album of his piano music reveals an unusual and
individual voice, an idiosyncratic blend of Janáček, Ravel,
Schoenberg and other mid-twentieth-century masters, animated by a
hard-edged, freewheeling energy and grim humour reminiscent of his
close contemporary, Nikos Skalkottas.
Sonata II (1941)
Four Intermezzi (1929)
Suite Theresienstadt (1945)
Suite for Piano (1955)
Seven Neo-Impressionist Pieces in Twelve-Tone (1973)