The
Orchestra
of the Swan, conducted by Kenneth Woods, performed
Gál's 4th Symphony op. 105
(Sinfonia concertante for flute, clarinet, violin, cello
and orchestra) in the Civic Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon, on Tuesday,
Dec. 6th, 2011.
The
Artisan Trio performed
Gál's Clarinet Trio op 93
on 29th November, 2011, at St. Andrew's and St. George's church,
George Street, Edinburgh.
Leon
McCawley played three of Gál's Preludes
for piano op. 83 in the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University
of York, on 14th October, 2011.
The
first concert in a planned "Entartete Musik" series took
place in the Troldsalen, at Troldhaugen Bergen, Norway (Edvard Grieg's
home) on Tuesday 4 October 2011, given by the
Bergens Kammermusikkforening (The Chamber Music Society
of Bergen). The programme included Hans Gál's Sonata
in B flat minor for violin and piano, Op. 17 played by Angie
Harley, violin, and Øyvind Aase, piano. Also on the programme
were Erwin Schulhoff's Five Pieces for String Quartet and Korngold's
Piano Quintet in E Major, Op. 15.
Marianne
Olyver (violin) and Robert
Schuck (piano ) played
the Gal D Major violin sonata in two concerts in Scotland in August:
Friday 19th August,
Hill Of Tarvit Mansion House, Cupar, and Sunday
21st. August, Dalmeny Parish Church, South Queensferry.
The
Israel Chamber Orchestra under their conductor Roberto
Paternostro performed Gál's Concerto for Violin
and Small Orchestra op. 39, with the violinist Thomas
Albertus Irnberger, in the Opening Season Concert in the
Leon & Mathilda Recanati Auditorium, Tel Aviv, on 21st and 22nd
September, 2011. Thomas Albertus recently released a CD with this
orchestra, devoted to Gál works (see below).
Four
Gál pieces were performed at the Musikalischer
Sommer festival in East Friesland,
Germany, in July and August, 2011. These are: Clarinet
Trio, op.97 (26th July, performed by the group Ensemble
Kaleidophonia at Detern), String Quartet
No. 3, op.95 (3rd August), Cello Sonata,
op.89 and Violin Suite, op.56
(8th August).
Lorna
McGhee played Gál's Three
Intermezzi for flute and piano, op. 103 on Friday 17th June
at the Concert Hall of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music as part
of their Friday lunchtime concert series, and again on Sunday June
19th at the Royal Academy of Music in London, in a recital for the
British Flute Society.
Marianne
Olyver (violin) and Robert
Schuck (piano) played works by
Gál, Gellhorn, Jeffery Wilson, Milhaud, Krein, Hubay,
and Monti at the Cramphorn Theatre, Chelmsford, on June 15th, 2011.
Leon
McCawley played 3 preludes from the 24 Preludes op. 83 at
Arley Hall, Cheshire, on 24th May 2011 and at the Howard Aassembly
Rooms, Leeds, on 26th May, 2011.
The
Ensemble Epomeo
played Gál's String Trio op. 104 at Chistchurch House in
Rode, Frome, Somerset, on the 21st of May, 2011.

The
Artisan
Trio performed works by Hans Gál
at a concert on Sunday, 27th March 2011 at 4 p.m., in Canongate
Kirk, Edinburgh. The works included: Piano
Trio in E major, op.18; 5
Songs for Middle Voice, op.33;
Heurigen Variations, op.9.
Excerpts
from Gal's opera Die Heilige Ente
were performed in a form described as an "opera-collage"
with piano, in the Festsaal of the Sophiensäle, Berlin, on
27th February, 2011
In
February 2011, Annette-Barbara
Vogel recorded works for violin
and viola by Bach, Pleyel, Fuchs, Gál, and Laszlo Weiner.
The
Choir
and Orchestra of the University of Hamburg
under their conductor Bruno de Greve performed Gál's Cantata
De Profundis, op. 50
in Hamburg on 30th January, 2011.
The
Austrian Cultural Forum in
Warsaw had an entire Gál evening on January
20th, 2011. The programme included: the Serenade
for clarinet, violin and cello op.
93
, the Huyton-Suite
op. 92, the
2nd String Quartet, op. 35, the Three
Preludes for piano, op. 65, and the Cello
Suite, op. 6. They were performed by students
and teachers of the Warsaw Music University.
Annette-Barbara
Vogel and Daniel Sweaney performed Gál's Divertimento
for Violin and Viola, op. 90 No.3, in Sarasota and Tampa, Florida,
during January 2011.
The
Orchestra of the Swan, conducted by Kenneth
Woods, played Gál's 3rd symphony,
op. 62, on 7th December, 2010, at the Civic Hall, Stratford
on Avon.
The
Ensemble
Epomeo performed Gál’s
Serenade for String Trio, op.41,
at several venues in the United States and Canada during September
and November, 2010.
Jessica
Beeston
played Gál's Viola Suite op. 102a,
at Lockerbie Music Society (9th November, 2010), and at Glasgow
and Edinburgh Universities (lunchtime recitals) on November 11th
and 12th, 2010,respectively.
Annette-Barbara
Vogel and Daniel Sweaney performed Gál's Divertimento
for Violin and Viola, op. 90, 3 in the Van Kuster Recital Hall,
London , Ontario, in September
2010, in the Moody Recital Hall, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in
October, 2010.
Suzanne
Snizek gave a lecture recital on October 17th, 2010 at
the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, with performances
of What a Life! and the Huyton
Suite, op. 92. Forthcoming publications (2011-12) include: ‘Reizenstein
and Gál: The Musical Heritage of Central Promenade Internment
Camp.’ In Creativity Behind Barbed Wire: The Tangible and
Intangible Heritage of Prisoners of War. New York: Routledge; and
‘Hans Gál and the Musical Culture of British Internment
Camps of WWII.’ In Exil.arte Yearbook issue 1, Vienna: Böhlau
Verlag.
Breslau
(Wroclaw), Berlin, Eberswalde
Three concerts took place during September in which Armenian, Polish
and German music students performed works by composers who were
persecuted or murdered by the National-Socialists: Ernst Toch, Szymon
Laks, Joachim Mendelsohn and Hans Gál. The concerts were
organised by the German Raff-Forderreuther Foundation in co-operation
with the Kreisau-Initiative Berlin and the Polish Kreisau Foundation
for European Understanding.
The Trio
Albonata played Gal's Piano
Trio, op. 18, in September 2010 in Kitchener/Waterloo, ON (Canada),
in the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Series, along with Beethoven's
Gassenhauer Trio and Brahms's: Clarinet Trio (version
for violin, cello and piano).
Gál's
Piano Quartet
in A, written in 1926 for the pianist Paul Wittgenstein,
who had lost an arm in the First World War (and for whom Ravel wrote
his concerto for the left hand), received its first performance
in over 80 years, on June 18th in the German city of Heilbronn.
The Trio
Rintonare played Gál's Clarinet
Trio op. 97 on 13th June, 2010, in the Barocksaal, Aoyama Music
Memorial Hall, Kyoto, Japan.
The
American trio
Ensemble
Epomeo played Gál's Serenade
op. 41 for string trio on Friday 16 April, 2010, at Birkenhead
School, The Wirral, Cheshire as part of the Two Rivers Festival.
Yasuyuki
Kono (clarinet) and Tasuku Shiomi (piano)
played Gál's Clarinet Sonata op.
84 on 28th March, 2010, in the Barocksaal, Aoyama Music Memorial
Hall, Kyoto, Japan.