ATOS Trio: Weprik - 3 Folkdances, op.13b

Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik (also Weprik) (1899-1958) - Three Folkdances, op.13b
00:10 - 01:55 I. Allegro moderato
01:56 - 04:45 II. Lento
04:46 - 06:10 III. Allegro
Veprik grew up in Warsaw and studied piano with Karl Wendling at the Leipzig Conservatory. At the onset of World War I, the family returned to Russia. Veprik studied composition with Alexander Zhitomirsky (1881-1937) in the Saint Petersburg Conservatory (1918-1921) and Nikolai Myaskovsky at the Moscow Conservatory (1921-1923).
Veprik was active in the musical life of 1920-1930s. In 1923 he was active in the creation of the Society for Jewish Music, a focal point for Jewish composers in Moscow, and Jewish music flourished as a result of the activities of the Society. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory (1923-1941; professor from 1930; dean from 1938). In 1927 during a business trip in Austria, Germany and France, he met Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Maurice Ravel and Arthur Honegger. His music became well known in Europe and the United States during this time: nearly his entire oeuvre was performed by the Berlin Radio Symphony (1928-1929). In March 1933 Arturo Toscanini conducted Veprik's Dances and Songs of the Ghetto at Carnegie Hall in New York.
Veprik was arrested as a "Jewish nationalist" in 1950, maltreated in prison and then deported to the Gulag. He was released from hard labor and instead had to organize an amateur orchestra among the prisoners.[2] In April 1954, Vepryk's case was reviewed and he was acquitted. In September 1954 he returned sick and weary to Moscow, to a world in which Jewish culture had no place. He died on 13 October 1958 in Moscow.
(source: Wikipedia)
recorded live in Berlin / June 18, 2023
ATOS Trio
Annette von Hehn, violin
Stefan Heinemeyer, violoncello
Thomas Hoppe, piano
Felix Epp, video & sound (felix-epp.de)