Duo.Klax - Bittersweet. Music in the shadow of the Third Reich

The Bittersweet program sheds light on composers whose works were ostracized, banned or forgotten under the Nazi dictatorship due to their Jewish background or their artistic attitude.

The selected pieces for saxophone and piano show how diverse musical forms of expression remained despite political oppression - from jazz-like virtuosity to structural austerity and lyrical melancholy. The result is a contrasting soundscape between bitterness and beauty.

You can hear Erwin Schulhoff's Hot Sonata, two sonatas by Paul Hindemith, Paul Ben-Haim's Three Songs without Words and Darius Milhaud's Scaramouche.