Music on the Brink of Destruction

Ian Skelly presents works performed during a recent concert that surveyed music written and performed in the Terezin and Warsaw ghettos - Music on the Brink of Destruction.

Dovid Ayznshtat's Passover Cantata Chad Gadya, recently discovered in an old manuscript folder in Cape Town in 2012 by Dr. Stephen Muir, features alongside another newly unearthed work - Gideon Klein's melodrama, The Poplar Tree, uncovered in the archive of Prague's Jewish museum by Dr. David Fligg. The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds perform with pianist Věra Müllerová, violinist Benjamin Nabarro, Viola player Krzysztof Chorzelski and cellist Gemma Rosefield. Plus a UK Premiere, by the Leonore Piano Trio, of Soviet Holocaust music by the Mikhail Gnesin, and pianist Leo Nicholson accompanies Sam Carl, Emily Kyte and James Way in songs by composers from the Theresienstadt ghetto.

Dovid Ayznshtat (arr/reconstructed by Stephen Muir): Cantata: Chad Gadya
The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds
Benjamin Nabarro (violin)
Krzysztof Chorzelski (viola)
Gemma Rosefield (cello)
Stephen Muir (cond)

Anon (arr. Stephen Muir): Ani Ma'amin
Dovid Beyglman (Isaiah Shpigl - lyrics) (arr. Stephen Muir): Nit kayn rozhinkes, nit kayn mandlen
The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds
Stephen Muir (cond)

Dmitry Pokrass (Hirsh Glik - lyrics) (arr. Joseph Toltz): Zog nit keynmol az du keyst dem letstn veg
The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds
Věra Müllerová (piano)
Stephen Muir (cond)

Gideon Klein: String Trio
Benjamin Nabarro (violin)
Krzysztof Chorzelski (viola)
Gemma Rosefield (cello)

Pavel Haas: Four Songs on Chinese Poetry, No. 4 (Probděná)
Sam Carl (bass-baritone)
Leo Nicholson (piano)

Martin Roman: Karussell, Wir reiten auf hölzernen Pferden
Emily Kyte (mezzo)
Leo Nicholson (piano)

Viktor Ullmann: Geistliche Lieder Op. 20 No. 1 - Um Mitternacht, im Schlafe schon
James Way (tenor)
Leo Nicholson (piano)

Gideon Klein: Topol (The Poplar Tree)
Věra Müllerová (piano)
David Fligg (narrator)

Hans Krása: Passacaglia and Fugue for string trio
Benjamin Nabarro (violin)
Krzysztof Chorzelski (viola)
Gemma Rosefield (cello)

Mikhail Gnesin: To the Memory of Our Dead Children, Op. 63
Leonore Piano Trio

Zikmund Schul: Two Chassidic Dances Op. 15
Benjamin Nabarro (violin)
Gemma Rosefield (cello).

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