Marc Pantillon & Fabrice Ferez - HINDAMARS (2026) [Hi-Res]

Trilogy
Our focused work on rare or previously unpublished rep­ertoire connected to World War II – a pivotal period in the history of music and the lives of composers – has resulted in two acclaimed recordings: In memoriam Pavel Haas VDE Gallo 1426 and At the Heart of the 20th Century, Claves 1810.

After exploring Central European and French compos­ers, we now turn to the Germanic sphere in this third, carefully crafted album. The possibility of continuing to create music during the rise of the Brown Plague, and the experience of exile – be it in the USA, Switzerland, the USSR or Palestine – are the major themes underly­ing this programme which completes our trilogy. The notion of ‘degenerate music’, as defined by the Nazi regime at the 1938 Düsseldorf exhibition, applies both to Hindemith’s modernism and to the early days of jazz, that so-called ‘Negro’ music that flourished in Paris and Weimar-era Berlin.