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Music : Terezín/Theresienstadt
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Terezín/Theresienstadt from: Deutsche Gramophon List Price: $16.98 CD-Charts Price: $14.99 You Save: $1.99 (12%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0028947765462 Label: Deutsche Gramophon Manufacturer: Deutsche Gramophon Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Deutsche Gramophon Release Date: March 25, 2008 Studio: Deutsche Gramophon Sales Rank: 10350 MPN: 001080302 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: The Swedish mezzo-soprano, Anne Sofie von Otter, is known as one of the most versatile stars of her generation. She is always in search of new musical challenges, whether with the songs of Cécile Chaminade or of Benny Andersson. Here, von Otter has chosen a project with a serious and historically significant background. She interprets pieces written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp by a group of Jewish composers who were imprisoned there and yet managed to foster a rich cultural life even under the most extreme conditions. On this album, Anne Sofie von Otter is joined by one of the greatest lieder singers of today, Christian Gerhaher, and their longtime pianists Bengt Forsberg and Gerold Huber, respectively. Together they present songs by Viktor Ullmann, Hans Krása, and so-called cabaret songs. DG's recently signed violinist Daniel Hope contributes the Sonata for Solo Violin by Erwin Schulhoff. Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Very specialOne could write volumes about this very special disk. Of course, considerations arise apart from the music itself. But I have other collections of music from Theresienstadt, which, though moving as a result of the context, do not stand on their own. This disk does. Von Otter is extraordinary - no trace of the diva here (actually, I have no reason she believes she is one despite her eminence in the musical world!) Musically, this is an intriguing disk, invoking a number of musical styles from cabaret to chamber music, with hints of Berg. It does lead one to imagine other lives, in other circumstances and that is clearly the intention of the disk, entitled as it is. No one else has mentioned it but for me ... Read More: Rating: - History makes wistful music tragicOut of context, the music on this memorial CD to the composers who were led to death at Terezin, Hitler's showplace among the concentration camps, could seem almost wistful. We get a snapshot of genres as separated as cabaret, simple lullabies, and serious classical lied. One could be walking down the street in Berlin in the Thirties. But we are in Terezin instead, and wistfulness turns to tragedy. The lullabies come from a nurse wo chose to enter the gas chamber with her sick kids, still singing, rather than abandon them. The possibility for heartbreak is endless. The simple fact that almost every composer's dates end in the same year, 1944, triggers the specter of horror. Von Otter, Gerhaher, and company respect the dead -- as ... Read More: Rating: - Terezin revisitedBeautifully sung and played. Reminds one of the Berlin cafe music from the 1920s, which is probably where most of the composers found their niche. Sad to know that these people didn't survive, but their music lives on! Rating: - Unspeakable Pain and ShameApproximately 144,000 Jews, mostly from Germany and Czechoslovakia, were imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camp at Theresienstadt for varying terms between 1941 and 1945. Roughly 15,000 of them were children. At least 33,000 died of contagion or starvation. 88,000 were dispatched to Auschwitz or other extermination camps, where they were gassed, usually on the day of arrival. Of the children, no more than 1100 survived. Of the total transient population, there were only 17,247 verified survivors -- 17,247 witnesses to the Holocaust. Among the Jews at Theresienstadt were some 470 Danish Jews who had not been successfully smuggled away to Sweden. The Danish government to the bold step of demanding that the International Red Cross ... Read More: Rating: - wonderful musical tributeTerezi'n/Theresienstadt by Anne Sofie Von Otter, Benct Forsberg, Christian Gerhaher and Daniel Hope is a wonderful musical tribute to the musicians murdered by the Nazis in the "model" concentration camp, Terezi'n. It is lyrical and lovely and worthy of listening to for many hours. I participate in an annual Holocaust Remembrance program, and I am trying to figure out how we can incorporate this CD into the program. I am pleased to have purchased it. |
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