'The towers are burning, the church has been ransacked, the town hall lies in ruins, the strong have been hacked to death, the virgins defiled, and wherever we look we see fire, plague and death which...
Am 27. und 28. April 1945 schleppte sich ein Menschenstrom von Dachauer 'Schutzhäftlingen' an uns vorrüber - unendlich war der Strom - unendlich war das Elend - unendlich war das Leid
This Concerto was inspired and written in honour of Zoltán Kodály. Hartmann was inspired to write a piece of music characterised by a Hungarian flavour, as much in the cadenza-like free passages remin...
Originally entitled ,Music of Sorrow', the work was written in 1939, duringthe first months of World War II. It is Karl Amadeus Hartmann's onlyviolin concerto and at the same time his most famous piec...