KAUPO KIKKAS
‘IT CAN BE EASY TO SLIP INTO THE CLINICAL, ALMOST DRY ACCURACY THAT IS FASHIONABLE WHEN RECORDING SCHOENBERG’S MUSIC’
Walter Liebecks life changed forever in 1934. An accomplished amateur violinist, he was studying law in Königsberg, eastern Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia), when a university professor took him aside, warning him that the university was being asked to submit the names of all its Jewish students to the authorities and suggesting that Walter should consider leaving. Taking heed, he abandoned his studies and fled to Cape Town, South Africa, where he began a new life as an insurance salesman, later raising a family. A year previously, Arnold Schoenberg had made a similar decision, immigrating to the US having been branded a degenerate by the inexorably powerful Nazi Party. It was here that he wrote his op.36 Violin Concerto, a work whose deceptively neo-Classical detachment and idiomatic brilliance belie a sense of both longing and foreboding.
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