"Das Trauerkonzert" for Violin and String Orchestra.
Funereal Concerto for violin and orchestra. A German composer deeply opposed to Nazism, to the extent of forbidding the rendition of his works in Germany during the Wold War II, he composed this Funereal Concerto in 1939 to condemn the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Germany.
Bohuslav Martinu
Memorial to Lidice.
Bohuslav Martinu composed this Memorial to Lidice in 1943. He was living in Connecticut, but was from Czechoslovakia. Living in Paris, his star was on the rise. But with the Germans advancing, he fled for the United States.
The Memorial to Lidice crashes two different tonalities together, and the tension never leaves. But Martinu was also fond of old Czech or Bohemian tunes throughout his life, and a hymn to Wenceslaus, the martyred patron saint of Bohemia, appears. We also hear the so-called “fate” motif from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
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