Kaufmann: Chamber Music / Arc Ensemble

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
August 28, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      KAUFMANN, WALTER
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Arc Ensemble
    • PERFORMER
      ARC ENSEMBLE
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 28, 2020
    • UPC
      095115217023
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 20170
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Lento - Allegro ma non troppo - Poco meno - Accelerando - Grave

      Composer: Walter Kaufmann

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

    2. II. Un poco grave

      Composer: Walter Kaufmann

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

    3. III. Allegro molto - Meno - Allegro molto

      Composer: Walter Kaufmann

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

    4. IV. Allegro barbarico - Poco meno - Molto meno - A tempo - Poco meno

      Composer: Walter Kaufmann

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

    5. I. Molto moderato e tranquillo - Allegro moderato - Tempo I - Tempo II

      Composer: Walter Kaufmann

      Performer: Erika Raum, Kevin Ahfat

    6. II. Adagio molto

      Composer: Walter Kaufmann

      Performer: Erika Raum, Kevin Ahfat

    7. III. Vivace

      Composer: Walter Kaufmann

      Performer: Erika Raum, Kevin Ahfat

    8. I. Energico - [Meno mosso] - [Tempo I]

      Composer: Walter Kaufmann

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

    9. II. Sostenuto cantabile - Mosso - Meno

      Composer: Walter Kaufmann

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

    10. III. Allegro molto - Meno

      Composer: Walter Kaufmann

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

    11. IV. Andantino - Allegro - Molto meno - Andantino

      Composer: Walter Kaufmann

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

    12. V. Vivace - [Meno mosso] - Meno - Allargando - Largamente

      Composer: Walter Kaufmann

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

    13. I. Sostenuto cantabile

      Composer: Walter Kaufmann

      Performer: Joaquin Valdepeñas, Kevin Ahfat

    14. II. Intermezzo: Vivace - [Trio] - Vivace

      Composer: Walter Kaufmann

      Performer: Joaquin Valdepeñas, Kevin Ahfat

    15. III. Finale: Canzonetta. Moderato

      Composer: Walter Kaufmann

      Performer: Joaquin Valdepeñas, Kevin Ahfat

    16. Septet

      Composer: Walter Kaufmann

      Ensemble: ARC Ensemble

      Performer: Jamie Kruspe, Kimberly Jeong


For the fourth installment in their Music in Exile series, the Toronto-based ARC Ensemble turns its attention to the music of Walter Kaufmann. Despite a very promising start in Prague and then Berlin, and friendships with Albert Einstein and with Franz Kafka’s circle, Kaufmann’s career become a casualty of the Nazi regime that forced scores of Jewish musicians to flee Germany – in his case for Bombay in India. Kaufmann’s intriguing and extensive body of work remains largely forgotten, certainly underappreciated, and perhaps most tragically, unperformed since first heard, although ironically, millions of Indians are familiar with one piece of his music – the signature tune that he wrote in 1936 for All India Radio, which is still played every morning. “The hallmark of this remarkable music,” explains the ARC Ensemble’s Artistic Director, Simon Wynberg, “is its striking originality. There are flashes of Debussy, Bartók, and Stravinsky, and hints of Bohemian and klezmer music, but the end result is a world of inventiveness and surprises. It is an extraordinary blend of Eastern and Western traditions, both adventurous and accessible, and no less compelling for the eighty-year delay since its first performance.”