Video direction: Julie De Clercq <br />Buy here: http://bit.ly/1rqaS4v <br /> <br />Die Welt von Gestern, Toon Fret and Veronika Iltchenko’s second album, alludes to the culture of well-to-do pre-war Europe, whose end was so dramatically captured in Stephan Zweig’s book of the same name. The pieces selected for this recording present a varied picture of 75 years of German and Austrian culture, including works by composers as stylistically different as Schumann, Reinecke, Karg-Elert and Zemlinsky. These compositions cover a wide timespan ranging from Schumann’s Drei Romanzen (1849), composed in a newly post-revolutionary Germany, to Niemann’s Aus einem alten Patrizierhaus (1933), written on the cusp of the darkest period in German history, which would mark the end of Zweig’s World of Yesterday. <br /> <br />Toon and Veronika’s second album can be seen as a natural successor to their first CD, Le Temps retrouvé, which was devoted to the music of the French Belle Epoque and received warm praise from audiences and critics alike.
