Jascha Nemtsov | Joachim Stutschewsky: "Vier jüdische Tanzstücke für Klavier"
0:10 Semplice ma espressivo | 2:06 Vivo | 3:16 Allegro commodo | 5:12 Allegro assai The lecture concert was part of the conference "Persecuted Musicians in National Socialist Thuringia II" on November 13, 2020 at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar The concert was presented by the renowned Israeli singer Tehila Nini Goldstein and by the pianist and musicologist, Prof. Dr. Jascha Nemtsov. They performed works by three persecuted and forgotten Jewish composers from Thuringia, most of which were only recently rediscovered and represent a remarkable addition to the repertoire of the 20th century. Joachim Stutschewsky (1891-1982) worked in Jena, he was not only a composer, but also a cellist and music researcher. One of the current projects of the Weimar Chair of the History of Jewish Music is the first publication of Stutschewsky's literary estate. Stutschewsky lived in Israel from 1938, but continued to write only in German. In 2020 the chair brought out his book about Klezmer musicians, next is his autobiography "Life without Compromise". Before World War I, Stutschewsky was a cellist in the Jena String Quartet and performed several times as a soloist with the university orchestra. In his own works he often used traditional Jewish melodies from Eastern Europe, including in his "Vier jüdische Tänze" for piano. Research on persecuted and forgotten Jewish composers, and recently also specifically on persecuted Jewish musicians in Thuringia, is one of the main focus areas of the Chair of the History of Jewish Music at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar. The concert on November 13, 2020 in the Fürstenhaus concert hall showed that this is by no means purely historical research or a kind of reparation. With this concert, the conference "Persecuted Musicians in National Socialist Thuringia. A Search for Traces II", conceived and organized by the research fellow at the chair Dr. Maria Stolarzewicz, was concluded. Website of the Chair of the History of Jewish Music: https://www.hfm-weimar.de/jmus The pianist and musicologist Jascha Nemtsov was born in 1963 in Magadan (Siberia) and grew up in Saint Petersburg where he graduated from the State Conservatory. Since 1992 he lives in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2013 he was appointed as professor for History of Jewish Music at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar. Furthermore, he is Academic Director of the Cantorial School of the Abraham Geiger College and member of the School of Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam. Jascha Nemtsov plays solo concerts as well as participates in various chamber music formations all over the world. Among his regular chamber music partners are David Geringas, Kolja Blacher, Tabea Zimmermann and Kolja Blacher. He has recorded around 40 CDs, among them many first recordings of works by Jewish composers. In 2007 Jascha Nemtsov was awarded the "Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik" and in 2018 the "OPUS KLASSIK" for his anthology of 5 CDs with piano works by the composer Vsevolod Zaderatsky, who was persecuted under Stalinism.
0:10 Semplice ma espressivo | 2:06 Vivo | 3:16 Allegro commodo | 5:12 Allegro assai The lecture concert was part of the conference "Persecuted Musicians in National Socialist Thuringia II" on November 13, 2020 at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar The concert was presented by the renowned Israeli singer Tehila Nini Goldstein and by the pianist and musicologist, Prof. Dr. Jascha Nemtsov. They performed works by three persecuted and forgotten Jewish composers from Thuringia, most of which were only recently rediscovered and represent a remarkable addition to the repertoire of the 20th century. Joachim Stutschewsky (1891-1982) worked in Jena, he was not only a composer, but also a cellist and music researcher. One of the current projects of the Weimar Chair of the History of Jewish Music is the first publication of Stutschewsky's literary estate. Stutschewsky lived in Israel from 1938, but continued to write only in German. In 2020 the chair brought out his book about Klezmer musicians, next is his autobiography "Life without Compromise". Before World War I, Stutschewsky was a cellist in the Jena String Quartet and performed several times as a soloist with the university orchestra. In his own works he often used traditional Jewish melodies from Eastern Europe, including in his "Vier jüdische Tänze" for piano. Research on persecuted and forgotten Jewish composers, and recently also specifically on persecuted Jewish musicians in Thuringia, is one of the main focus areas of the Chair of the History of Jewish Music at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar. The concert on November 13, 2020 in the Fürstenhaus concert hall showed that this is by no means purely historical research or a kind of reparation. With this concert, the conference "Persecuted Musicians in National Socialist Thuringia. A Search for Traces II", conceived and organized by the research fellow at the chair Dr. Maria Stolarzewicz, was concluded. Website of the Chair of the History of Jewish Music: https://www.hfm-weimar.de/jmus The pianist and musicologist Jascha Nemtsov was born in 1963 in Magadan (Siberia) and grew up in Saint Petersburg where he graduated from the State Conservatory. Since 1992 he lives in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2013 he was appointed as professor for History of Jewish Music at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar. Furthermore, he is Academic Director of the Cantorial School of the Abraham Geiger College and member of the School of Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam. Jascha Nemtsov plays solo concerts as well as participates in various chamber music formations all over the world. Among his regular chamber music partners are David Geringas, Kolja Blacher, Tabea Zimmermann and Kolja Blacher. He has recorded around 40 CDs, among them many first recordings of works by Jewish composers. In 2007 Jascha Nemtsov was awarded the "Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik" and in 2018 the "OPUS KLASSIK" for his anthology of 5 CDs with piano works by the composer Vsevolod Zaderatsky, who was persecuted under Stalinism.