Haas & Gál

The composers Pavel Haas en Hans Gál were both victims of Nazism at a time when they were eminent representatives of Austrian culture (Hans Gál) and of Czech culture (Pavel Haas). Both were of Jewish origin, but the right to be a part of these cultures was taken away from them, and both had to face a different fate, emigration and its attendant difficulties for Gál, deportation to Terezin and death in Auschwitz for Haas.

Gál's Oboe Sonata, like all his works, is rooted in the late Romantic period en illustrates Gál’s special, lifelong affinity with Johannes Brahms. Pavel Haas’s Suite for Oboe and Piano, composed at the outset of Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, shares the complex musical language of his teacher, Leoš Janáček.Written five years before the composer died in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, this is a captivating work, its melodiousness underscored by intensity of feeling.

Aisling Casey - oboe
Mariken Zandvliet - piano

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