Poland’s first 12-note composer
mainEDA Records have issued five world premiere recordings of Jozef Koffler, the Polish serialist who was murdered with his family during the Nazi Holocaust.
Should be interesting.
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Actually: there is a recording already of Kottler’s music, which includes his Cantata ´Aus Liebe´, sang by Barbara Hannigan, at Channel Classics…
I wrote a few words about in in my big article on Entartete Musik, Theresienstadt and CC recordings:
https://basiaconfuoco.com/2016/05/25/entartete-music-teresienstadt-en-channel-classics/
Btw: this article is also translated in German, so if you don´t read Dutch ….
https://basiaconfuoco.com/2016/09/22/entartete-musik-theresienstadt-und-channel-classics-deutsche-ubersetzung/
Thank you, Mr. Lebrecht, for sharing this. I’d never heard of Koffler until now. What a fabulous piece!