Chamber Works by Jerzy Fitelberg / ARC Ensemble

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
October 30, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      FITELBERG, JERZY
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Arc Ensemble (Valdepenas
    • PERFORMER
      Raum, Berard, Bownman, Dann, Epperson, Huber)
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 30, 2015
    • UPC
      095115187722
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 10877
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Presto

      Composer: Jerzy Fitelberg

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

    2. II. Andante

      Composer: Jerzy Fitelberg

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

    3. III. Allegro

      Composer: Jerzy Fitelberg

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

    4. IV. Molto allegro

      Composer: Jerzy Fitelberg

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

    5. V. Presto

      Composer: Jerzy Fitelberg

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

    6. Serenade

      Composer: Jerzy Fitelberg

      Performer: Steven Dann, Kara Huber

    7. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Jerzy Fitelberg

      Performer: Benjamin Bowman, Erika Raum

    8. II. Tema con variazioni: Andantino -

      Composer: Jerzy Fitelberg

      Performer: Benjamin Bowman, Erika Raum

    9. II. Variation 1: Allegro -

      Composer: Jerzy Fitelberg

      Performer: Benjamin Bowman, Erika Raum

    10. II. Variation 2 -

      Composer: Jerzy Fitelberg

      Performer: Benjamin Bowman, Erika Raum

    11. II. Variation 3 -

      Composer: Jerzy Fitelberg

      Performer: Benjamin Bowman, Erika Raum

    12. II. Variation 4: Finale alla marcia

      Composer: Jerzy Fitelberg

      Performer: Benjamin Bowman, Erika Raum

    13. Presto -

      Composer: Jerzy Fitelberg

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

    14. Andante -

      Composer: Jerzy Fitelberg

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

    15. Presto

      Composer: Jerzy Fitelberg

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

    16. Nachtmusik, Op. 9 "Fisches Nachtgesang"

      Composer: Jerzy Fitelberg

      Performer: Joaquin Valdepeñas, Bryan Epperson, Kara Huber


This is Volume 2 in the Chandos series of works by Jewish composers who were forced to flee the Third Reich during the 30s. The Grammy-nominated ARC Ensemble (Artists of the Royal Conservatory, Toronto) here presents premiere recordings of chamber works by Jerzy Fitelberg.

The album offers two String Quartets, the early mysterious Nachtmusik for clarinet, cello, and celeste, the Sonatine for two violins, shaped by Polish folk tunes, and the Serenade for viola and piano, composed in New York in 1943 and published in 1954, three years after Fitelberg’s death.

After graduating from the Conservatory in his hometown, Warsaw, Fitelberg studied at Berlin’s Musikhochschule, the finest music academy in Europe at this time. He fled Germany in 1933 to live in New York. Fitelberg was well known and highly regarded, his music included in all the International Society of Contemporary Music’s festivals until the 50s. However, like other music featured in this series, which Nazi Germany deemed entartete, or ‘degenerate’, his works were almost eradicated by the Third Reich and has largely been forgotten. It deserves a much warmer reception. - Chandos