Music on the Brink of Destruction at Wigmore Hall

By Anna Picard

The Times, 6 January 2017 

A survey of works written and performed in Terezin and the Warsaw Ghetto

Songs sentimental and satirical, string trios and duos of brazen beauty and wistful waltzes by a tubercular child prodigy. Pulled together in little more than five weeks by musicians from the Leonore Piano Trio and the Belcea Quartet, postgraduate students at the Guildhall and a consort from Leeds University, and programmed by the historian Shirli Gilbert, Music on the Brink of Destruction was a survey of works written and performed in Terezín and the Warsaw Ghetto. Of eleven featured composers, only three survived the Holocaust.

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