Hans Winterberg (1901–91) : Piano Music Vol. 2
Toccata Classics TOCC0609
Brigitte Helbig, piano
Release Date: 01.10.2021
Temps Total : 60:02
All except * First recordings






  1. Toccata (1926)

Piano Sonata No. 1 (1936)*
  2. I.  Agitato
  3. II.  Adagio
  4. III.  Molto vivace

Impressionistische Klavier-Suite (date unknown)
  5.  I.  Prestissimo leggiero molto
  6. II.  Con moto (alla gondoliera)
  7. III.  Vivacissimo

Suite for Piano (1956)
  8. I.  Sehr schnelle Sechzehntel
  9. II.  Mässige Achtel (gemächlich)
10. III.  Lebhaft
11. IV. Lebhaft, energisch

Erinnerungen an Böhmen (‘Memories of Bohemia’, date unknown)
12. I.  Baumblüte im Elbtal
13. II.  Ein Sommertag am Hirschberger See
14. III.  Prag im Herbst
15. IV. Winterwanderung

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 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 second 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.