"Degenerate" composers in Germany: inventoried, mocked, censored. And often forced to emigrate. The Jewish composer Franz Schreker died just before the outbreak of World War II, and his work – captivating, late-Romantic compositions with expressionistic elements – remained largely forgotten due to the negative propaganda. The Hungarian composer Miklós Rózsa emigrated to Hollywood in 1940; nearly 30 years later, he composed his dramatic as well as lyrical Concerto for Viola. In the Second Symphony of another emigrant, Kurt Weill – Jewish, considered "too modern" as well as "too Marxist"– we hear the same gnawing nostalgia for his homeland.

Flagey, Brussels Philharmonic, Jeugd en Muziek Brussel