New CD releases by our artists

With two new CD releases, Ania Vegry and Liv Migdal are giving new life to works by composers who have long been unjustly forgotten:

On the second CD dedicated to the chamber music works of the German-speaking Prague Jew Hans Winterberg (label eda records EDA 53), Ania Vegry interprets the four songs Dort und hier (1936/1937) for the rare instrumentation soprano plus piano trio based on poems by Franz Werfel. The recording – with other chamber music works by Winterberg – immediately made it onto the quarterly longlist of the German Record Critics’ Award.

‘The Cosmos of Paul Ben-Haim’ (CPO 555 621-2) – Liv Migdal’s touching homage to the German-Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim is a great declaration of love to the music of a gifted late Romantic and melodic composer, whose steady career came to an abrupt end when the National Socialists seized power in 1933. The double album – conceived by Liv Migdal – is a comprehensive anthology with works such as the Fantasie Yizkor (with the Weimar Staatskapelle), duo compositions for violin and piano and selected songs.