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Krasa: | Brundibar Children’s opera from the concentration camp Theresienstadt | Svenk: | Vsechno jde! (Anything Goes!) 'Terezin March' |
Vera Fliegauf (Brundibar), Nicole Brück (Seppel), Angelina Ribeiro (Ann), Carolin Gronarz (Doktor), Anita Bodm (Polizist), Ninja Freese (Eismann), Petra Göhrum (Bäcker), Tanja Zimmermann (Milchmann), Barbara Strohmeier (Spatz), Julia Metzger (Katze), Mara Slisko (Hund) Choir & Orchestra from St Ursula Secondary School Freiburg, Grüters Hans Krása was a Czech composer who died in the Holocaust. He helped to organize cultural life in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Brundibár was the last work which he completed before he was arrested by the Nazis in 1942. Krása was sent to Theresienstadt where he reworked the opera for the available forces. It was performed in the camp 55 times and featured in a Red Cross film in 1944. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Haas, P: | Four Songs to the Text of Chinese Poetry (Theresienstadt-Series) | Kalman: | Terezín-Lied | Krasa: | Ctyrversi (Vierzeilengedicht) Vzruseni (Empfindung) Pratele (Die Freunde) | Roman, M: | Karussell | Schulhoff: | Sonata for Solo Violin | Strauss, A: | Ich weiß bestimmt, ich werd Dich wiedersehn | Svenk: | Vsechno jde! (Anything Goes!) 'Terezin March' Pod destnikem (Under an Umbrella) | Taube, C S: | Ein jüdisches Kind | Ullmann, V: | Berjoskele from Drei jiddische Lieder (Brezulinka), Op. 53 Claire Vénus... (Sonnet V) from Six Sonnets de Louize Labané, Op. 34 On voit mourir... (Sonnet VII) from Six Sonnets de Louize Labané, Op. 34 Je vis, je meurs... (Sonnet VIII) from Six Sonnets de Louize Labané, Op. 34 | Weber, I: | Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt Ade, Kamerad! Und der Regen rinnt Wiegala |
On this CD, von Otter has chosen a project with a serious and historically significant background. She interprets pieces written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp by a group of Jewish composers who were imprisoned there and yet managed to foster a rich cultural life even under the most extreme conditions. Most composers were later murdered in Auschwitz. “…despite all their suffering, the music that was written and performed there expresses a strong will to live and attests to the power of the creative spirit… Such feelings are omnipresent in this beautifully recorded recital performed with wonderful sensitivity and immediacy by singers Anne Sofie von Otter and Christian Gerhaher and their highly responsive instrumental partners.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2007 ***** “The music on this CD is beautiful, some of it comic, some of it elegiac, all of it almost unbearingly touching. All these composers were incarcerated in the concentration camp at Terezín in what is now the Czech Republic. One survivor, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer has written: "Music allowed many inmates to bare their hearts...even in the darkest corners of the earth...it was, at least for the moment, a liberation." The songs by Ilse Weber and Karel Svenk are in the cabaret style, deceptively jolly tunes, overlaid with bitter irony in the words. Anne Sofie von Otter sings them with exquisite tenderness; Bengt Forsberg at the piano and Bebe Risenfors on guitar accompany lovingly. The three best-known composers whose works have survived from Terezín are Pavel Haas, Hans Krása and Viktor Ullmann. Krása's Three Songs on texts by Rimbaud, Ullman's Six Sonnets and Haas's Four Songs on Chinese Poetry are all major works that change the perspective of the history of the German Lied. Christian Gerhaher sings the Krása and Ullmann with noble spirit.” Gramophone Magazine, October 2007  CD Review
Critics Disc of the Year - December 2007 |
 BBC Music Magazine
Disc of the month - October 2007 |
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Gramophone Magazine
BBC Music Magazine Awards 2008