Brigitte Helbig - Hans Winterberg: Piano Music, Volume 1

The tale of Hans Winterberg (1901�91) is a strange one. A survivor of the Terez�n concentration camp, where he had been interned as a Czech Jew, he settled in Munich after the War as a German citizen, and his music enjoyed a number of broadcasts � but with his death his estate disappeared into a legal limbo, emerging only in 2015. This first album of his piano music reveals an unusual and individual voice, an idiosyncratic blend of Jan�?ek, Ravel, Schoenberg and other mid-twentieth-century masters, animated by a hard-edged, freewheeling energy and grim humour reminiscent of his close contemporary, Nikos Skalkottas. Brigitte Helbig, who grew up in Munich and also studied there, is one of Germany�s livelier young pianists, with a respectable track record in the performance of new music.