St Petersburg, The Musorgsky Hall

Music from the concentration camps


Marking 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp and International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust

PERFORMERS:
pupils from music schools in St Petersburg


PROGRAMME:
Mordechai Gebirtig (1877 – 1942, Krakow Ghetto)
Reyzele

Pavel Haas (1899 – 1944, Auschwitz)
Suite for oboe and piano (arranged for saxophone)

Erwin Schulhoff (1894 – 1942, concentration camp Wulzburg)
Two pieces from Suite dansante en Jazz

Ilse Weber (1903 – 1944, Auschwitz)
Und der Regen rinnt
Wiegala

Viktor Ullmann (1898 – 1944, Auschwitz)
Piano Sonata No. 7

Gideon Klein (1919 – 1945, Fürstengrube concentration camp)
Lullaby

Hans Krása (1899 – 1944, Auschwitz)
Lullaby from the opera Brundibár

Mieczysław Weinberg (1919 – 1996)
Orphan’s Letter (Grief) from Jewish Songs, Op. 17

Mark Warschawsky
Oyfn Pripetchik

Age category 6+

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