A Voice For The Silenced
04/26/10 8:00PM
Tonight VPR Classical offers a prelude
to the VSO’s “Terezín Remembered” programs this week with "A Voice for
the Silenced", an exploration of the music that was created in the
Terezín concentration camp.
Music journalist Monika Vischer and conductor James Conlon offer their insight along with conversation with singer Ela Weissberger, who survived the camp, and music by Terezín composers Gideon Klein and Pavel Haas.
At 9 Cheryl Willoughby continues the journey with Olivier Messiaen’s transcendent “Quartet for the End of Time”, written in 1940 during the composer’s internment in a German prison camp.
Playlist
8:00pm
Trio for Violin, Viola & Cello
| Ensemble | Hawthorne String Quartet (members) |
|---|---|
| CD/Album | "Chamber Music from Theresienstadt - Klein, Ullmann" |
| Record co./Cat # | Channel Classics 16912 |
| Note | (written in 1944) |
8:18pm
Brundibar (selections)
| Composer | Hans Krasa |
|---|---|
| Ensemble | Disman Radio Children's Ensemble, Prague |
| Conductor | Joza Karas |
| CD/Album | "Composers from Theresienstadt - Hans Krasa: Brundibar" |
| Record co./Cat # | Channel Classics 51932 |
8:34pm
Study for Strings
| Composer | Pavel Haas |
|---|---|
| Ensemble | Czech Philharmonic |
| Conductor | Gerd Albrecht |
| CD/Album | "Musica Rediviva - Schulhoff, Haas, et al" |
| Record co./Cat # | Orfeo 337941 |
8:42pm
Requiem: Dies Irae
| Composer | Giuseppe Verdi |
|---|---|
| Ensemble | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus |
| Conductor | Robert Shaw |
| CD/Album | "Verdi: Requiem & Choruses" |
| Record co./Cat # | Telarc 80152 |
8:46pm
Don Quixote
| Composer | Viktor Ullmann |
|---|---|
| Ensemble | Gurzenich-Orchester Kolner Philharmoniker |
| Conductor | James Conlon |
| CD/Album | "Ullmann: Symphonies 1 & 2, Six Lieder, etc." |
| Record co./Cat # | Capriccio 67017 |
8:56pm
Requiem (selections)
| Composer | Giuseppe Verdi |
|---|---|
| Ensemble | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus |
| Conductor | Robert Shaw |
| CD/Album | "Verdi: Requiem & Choruses" |
| Record co./Cat # | Telarc 80152 |
9:01pm
An den deutschen Monde (To the German Moon)
| Composer | Hanns Eisler |
|---|---|
| Ensemble | New Budapest Orpheum Society |
| CD/Album | "Jewish Cabaret in Exile" |
| Record co./Cat # | Cedille 90000010 |
9:04pm
Wenn der Mond, wenn der Mond... (If the Moon, If the Moon...)
| Composer | Friedrich Hollander |
|---|---|
| Ensemble | New Budapest Orpheum Society |
| CD/Album | "Jewish Cabaret in Exile" |
| Record co./Cat # | Cedille 90000010 |
9:06pm
Quartet for the End of Time (Quatuor pour le fin du temps)
| Composer | Olivier Messiaen |
|---|---|
| Ensemble | Tashi |
| CD/Album | "Messiaen - Quatuor pour le fin du temps" |
| Record co./Cat # | RCA 7835 |
9:56pm
Chassidisch
| Composer | Traditional Jewish |
|---|---|
| Ensemble | Counterpoint |
| Conductor | Robert DeCormier |
| CD/Album | "When The Rabbi Danced" |
| Record co./Cat # | Albany 676 |