Winterberg:
Trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano (1950)
Suite for violin and piano (1942)
Suite No. 2 for trumpet and piano (1952)
There and here for soprano and piano trio (on poems by Franz Werfel)
Suite for clarinet in B and piano (1944)
Trio for violin, violoncello and piano (Sudeten-Trio)

Following a series of recordings by the group of so-called "Terezín composers", such as Hans Krasa, Pavel Haas and Viktor Ullmann, which began in the 1990s, this album is the first in a new series of mostly premiere recordings of chamber music and piano works by the Czech-Jewish composer Hans Winterberg. He was born in Prague in 1901 and later studied with Alexander von Zemlinsky and Alois Haba. He worked as a conductor, pianist and composer until the annexation of the Czechoslovak Republic by Nazi Germany in 1939. As the scion of a Jewish family that had lived in Prague for centuries, he survived - after forced labor and deportation to Theresienstadt - through a series of miracles. After the communists came to power in Czechoslovakia, he moved to Germany. His compositional legacy, which had been locked away in a German music archive for years, was only rediscovered in recent years. In his music, Winterberg combines various influences to create an original and exciting style all of his own. He draws on stylistic elements from Leos Janacek, but is also influenced by the Second Viennese School and French Impressionism. He saw himself as a bridge builder between the cultures of Eastern and Western Europe. All compositions have been newly edited from the manuscripts and published in cooperation with the Exilarte Center of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the international music publisher Boosey & Hawkes.