Sekles, Bernhard - Chamber Music

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Solomia Soroka, violin and viola
Noreen Silver, cello
Phillip Silver, piano

Bernhard Sekles (1872-1933) was one of the leading figures in German music in the first decades of the twentieth century, prominent as composer, educator and administrator. In 1928, as director of the Hoch Conservatorium in Frankfurt, he established the first academic programme in jazz studies, an act of courage and conviction that unleashed furious attacks from the Nazi press. His own music, banned during the Third Reich, has been virtually forgotten, although he composed in all major genres, including opera, symphony, lieder and chamber music. As the chamber works on this recording illustrate, Sekles often juxtaposes diverse elements - including Neoclassicism, Brahmsian Romanticism and jazz - in his compositions, which can be refreshingly quirky.

Solomia Soroka, Ukrainian-born, is professor of violin at Goshen College, Indiana. Noreen and Phillip Silver both teach at the University of Maine. Together they have already recorded a CD of chamber music by the Italian composer Leone Sinigaglia for Toccata Classics (TOCC0025), who in 1944 collapsed of a heart attack when Nazi troops arrived to arrest him for deportation. With her husband Arthur Greene Solomia Soroka has recorded two further Toccata Classics CDs, of Arthur Hartmann (TOCC0089) and Myroslav Skoryk (TOCC0137).