Ensemble Emigre Khan: Leaves From The Tree Of Life CD

Robert Kahn was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1865 and died in Biddenden, England in 1951. An influential professor of music at the Berlin Hochschule. His compositional style was along the lines of Mendelssohn, Schuman and Brahms, he was an admirer of Reger, whose contrapuntalism no doubt had an influence. He avoided large scale romantic forms, and became famed for his songs, choral works, chamber music and the huge Tagebuch in T?nen, (Music from the Tree of Life) a collection of solo piano works, suites for piano and lieder that run to over 1100 pieces. With the rise of the Nazis, Khan was branded "degenerate" by the National Socialists. He was thrown out of his teaching positions, and in 1937 left for the UK, settling in Kent and composing right up to his death. This album from the Ensemble ?migr?, is a fascinating introduction to a composer that political extremism and hatred tried, and failed, to erase. Ensemble ?migr?: Danny Driver, piano / Christopher Gould, piano / Emily Sun, violin / Ingrid Pearson, clarinet / Flora Bain, horn / Gemma Rosefield, cello / Norbert Meyn, tenor/director

1. Romanze Op. 25 No. 1 2. Es Ist Ein So Stiller, Heiliger Tag 3. Novemberfeier 4. Idyll 5. Liebestrost 6. Tagebuch in T÷nen No. 500, Variations on No. 1, Ab-Major 7. Tagebuch in T÷nen No. 3, C#-Minor 8. Tagebuch in T÷nen No. 4, C#-Minor 9. Tagebuch in T÷nen No. 5, F-Minor 10. Tagebuch in T÷nen No. 53 E-Major 11. Tagebuch in T÷nen No. 473-475 Jeanne-Suite, 473A 12. Tagebuch in T÷nen No. 473-475 Jeanne-Suite, 473B 13. Tagebuch in T÷nen No. 473-475 Jeanne-Suite, 473C 14. Tagebuch in T÷nen No. 473-475 Jeanne-Suite, 474 15. Tagebuch in T÷nen No. 473-475 Jeanne-Suite, 475 16. Liebesbrief 17. Die Unke 18. Feuerbestattung 19. Gebet 20. Quintet Op. 54 I Allegro Non Troppo 21. Quintet Op. 54 II, Presto Assai 22. Quintet Op. 54 III, Andante Sostenuto 23. Quintet Op. 54 IV, Allegro Agitato