April 21, 2009
Holocaust Remembrance Day
There are at least six million stories of suffering and death from the Holocaust. Many composers were among the victims. Their names might be unfamiliar to you: Marcel Tyberg, Leo Smit, Pavel Haas (pictured), Erwin Schulhoff, Viktor Ullmann. We'll always wonder what might have been, had they survived. Today, on Yom Hashoah, we'll feature music by victims of the Holocaust.
Today's Playlist
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Leo Smit
String Quartet
Violinists Jacobien Rozemond and Marijke van Kooten, violist Edith van Moergastel, and cellist Doris Hochscheid
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Pavel Haas
Second movement from Wind Quintet, Op. 10
The Imani Winds
Maud Mood Weyerhaeuser Music Studio, St. Paul, Minnesota
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Marcel Tyberg
Symphony No. 3
The Buffalo Philharmonic with conductor JoAnn Falletta
Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York
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Viktor Ullmann
First movement from Sonata No. 6, Op. 49
Pianist Edith Kraus
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Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings
The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Denver
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Lawrence Siegel
Excerpts from "Kaddish"
VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Chorus with soprano Maria Jette, alto Krista Palmquist, tenor Jason Collins, baritone James Bohn, and conductor Philip Brunelle
Ted Mann Concert Hall, Minneapolis
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Ervin Schulhoff
Andante from Five Pieces for String Quartet
The Jose White String Quartet
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
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Erwin Schulhoff
Two movements from Five Jazz Etudes
Pianist Sarah Rothenberg
The Menil Collection, Houston
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Ernest Bloch
"Prayer," for Cello and Strings
Cellist Ladislav Szathmary with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Mario Kosik
Slovak Radio, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Steve Reich
Double Sextet
eighth blackbird with members of the Oberlin College Contemporary Music Ensemble
Finney Chapel, Oberlin, Ohio