Music written by composers imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp; includes lieder, cabaret songs, lullabies, and a sonata for solo violin. The 7th work is a contrafactum of the song Komm mit nach Varasdin from the operetta Gräfin Maritza by Emmerich Kálmán. Principally for voice and piano; the 1st-3rd works also with accordion; the 5th work also with double bass; the 11th work also with clarinet; the 9th work for voice and guitar; the 10th work for voice and clarinet, viola, and violoncello. Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano (1st-3rd, 5th-6th, 8th-9th, 11th-13th works) ; Christian Gerhaher, baritone (4th, 7th, 10th, 14th works) ; Daniel Hope, violin (last work) ; Bengt Forsberg (1st-3rd, 5th-6th, 8th, 11th-13th works), Gerold Huber (4th, 7th, 10th, 14th works), piano ; Bebe Risenfors, accordion (1st-3rd works), double bass (5th work), guitar (9th work) ; Ib Hausmann, clarinet (10th work) ; Philip Dukes, viola (10th work) ; Josephine Knight, violoncello (10th work). Recorded Feb. 2006, Teldex Studios, Berlin, and Feb. 2007, Bavaria-Musik-Studios, Munich. Program notes by Ulrike Migdal in German with English and French translations, and texts with English, French, and German translations (55 p. : ports.) inserted in container.
Contents:
Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt / Ilse Weber (2:38) -- Pod des̆tníkem (3:10) ; Všechno jde! : (Terezín march) (2:16) / Karel Švenk -- Ade, Kamerad! (2:23) ; Und der Regen rinnt (1:48) / Ilse Weber -- Ich weiss bestimmt, ich werd dich wiedersehn! / Adolf Strauss (3:19) -- Terezín-Lied / anon. (2:56) -- Wir reiten auf hölzernen Pferden / Martin Roman (4:12) -- Wiegala / Ilse Weber (2:35) -- Three songs after poems by Arthur Rimbaud / Hans Krása (5:00) -- Ein jüdisches Kind / Carlo Sigmund Taube (2:44) -- Beryozkele (5:21) ; Six sonnets : op. 34. Clere Vénus (3:36) ; On voit mourir (2:39) ; Je vis, je meurs (1:22) / Viktor Ullmann -- Four songs on Chinese poetry / Pavel Haas (13:17) -- Sonata for solo violin / Erwin Schulhoff (12:00).
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