On the 77th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps, the Kraków Philharmonic presents a choral concert recalling works by Gideon Klein and Viktor Ullmann, Czech composers of Jewish origins, prisoners of Theresienstadt camp. None of them lived to see the end of the war: Ullmann and his family were killed in Auschwitz gas chambers, Klein died under unclear circumstances during the liquidation of the Fürstengrube subcamp in January 1945, just two days before the liberation of Auschwitz. What they left behind is their music.
The concert programme will be complimented by compositions by Rachmaninoff, Kilar, Penderecki and others. The Kraków Philharmonic Choir will be led by Alexander Humala.
Giacomo Carissimi Jephte: Plorate filii Israel|
Sergei Rachmaninoff Nynie otpuszczajeszi (Canticle of Simeon from Vespers)
Wojciech Kilar Lamento
Gideon Klein:
- Bachuri Le’an tisa
- Madrigal to the Words by François Villon
- Sündenfall
- Spruch
Viktor Ullmann:
- Anu olim arza (from Zwei Hebraische Chöre)
- As der Rebe elimelech
- Scha schtil
- Fregt di welt
- Du solst nischt gejn (from Makabi Liederbuch, Jüdische Verlag, Berlin 1930)
- Du Mejdele (from Makabi Liederbuch)
- Jome Jome (from Makabi Liederbuch)
- Elijahu hanawi (from Makabi Liederbuch, Jüdische Verlag, Berlin 1930)
Arnold Schönberg De Profundis Op. 50, Psalm 130
Krzysztof Penderecki Song of Cherubim
Kraków Philharmonic Choir
Alexander Humala – conductor
