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JERZY FITELBERG
(1903-1951)
premiere recordings
String Quartet No. 1 (1926)
11:34
1.
I
Presto - Meno mosso - Tempo I
1:44
2.
II
Andante
2:08
3.
III
Allegro
4:54
4.
IV
Molto allegro
1:13
5.
V
Presto - Meno mosso - Tempo I
1:38
Solo:Erika Raum violin I
Solo:Marie Berard violin II
Solo:Steven Dann viola
Solo:Bryan Epperson cello
6.
Serenade (1943)
8:53
for Viola and Piano
To Irene Jacobi
Andante mosso - [ ] - Tempo I -
Solo:Steven Dann viola
Solo:Kara Huber piano
Sonatine (1939)
17:50
for Two Violins
7.
I. Allegro moderato - [ ] - Tempo I
6:58
II. Tema con variazioni
8.
Andantino -
2:15
9.
Variation I. Allegro
1:57
10.
Variation II. -
1:34
11.
Variation III. -
2:17
12.
Variation IV. Finale alla marcia
2:52
Solo:Erika Raum violin II
Solo:Benjamin Bowman violin I
String Quartet No. 2 (1928)
16:57
(Original verson of Concerto for String Orchestra)
Au Quatuor Pro Arte: Alphonse Onnou, Laurent Halleux, Germain Prévost, Robert Maas
13.
Presto -
5:50
14.
Andante -
7:16
15.
Presto
3:53
Solo:Erika Raum violin I
Solo:Marie Berard violin II
Solo:Steven Dann viola
16.
Nachtmusik, Op. 9 'Fisches Nachtgesang' (1921)
5:08
for Clarinet, Cello, and Celeste
Lento - Quasi adagietto - Più vivo e sempre leggiero -
Solo:Joaquin Valdepenas clarinet
Solo:Bryan Epperson cello
Solo:Kara Huber celeste
Total time: 60:38
Chamber: ARC Ensemble
26-28 Jamuary 2015
Notes
This is Volume 2 in our 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 disc 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.
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Reviews
Nominee for Solo or Chamber Classical Album of the year
JUNO Awards 2016
Nominee for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance Award 2017
59th Annual Grammy Award Nominee
“...Fitelberg manages to write music that is quite accessible and thoroughly enjoyable, even on a first hearing... Urgently recommended.”
Jerry Dubins Fanfare March/April 2016
***** (Exceptional)
Barnardo Pieri – Musica magazine (Italy) – February 2016
"The ARC Ensemble, with pianist and celesta player Kara Huber, make the best possible case for these works. They play with great eloquence and have been very sympathetically recorded.
Jonathan Woolf - MusicWeb-International.com - 21 December 2015
Album: **** (Recommended) Sound: 2.5/5
Nicholas Derny - Diapason magazine (France) - January 2016
“ This release has given me a great deal of enjoyment, and I’m thankful to have been acquainted with this composer and his music. The ARC Ensemble give masterful and deeply committed performances of these interesting works. They are recorded in sumptuous sound.”
Stephen Greenbank – MusicWeb-International.com – 23 November 2015
“ Together these pieces, all claimed as first recordings, make for an appealing introduction to a modest but gifted composer, especially in these refined performances by the Royal Conservatoire of Toronto’s adventurous in-house ensemble, all beautifully recorded.”
David Fanning – Gramophone magazine – November 2015
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