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.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Leo Smit: String Quartet
Violinists Jacobien Rozemond and Marijke van Kooten, violist Edith van Moergastel, and cellist Doris Hochscheid
Pavel Haas: Second movement from Wind Quintet, Op. 10
The Imani Winds
Maud Mood Weyerhaeuser Music Studio, St. Paul, Minnesota
Marcel Tyberg: Symphony No. 3
The Buffalo Philharmonic with conductor JoAnn Falletta
Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York
Hour 2
Viktor Ullmann: First movement from Sonata No. 6, Op. 49
Pianist Edith Kraus
Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Denver
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
Ervin Schulhoff: Andante from Five Pieces for String Quartet
The Jose White String Quartet
Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
Erwin Schulhoff: Two movements from Five Jazz Etudes
Pianist Sarah Rothenberg
The Menil Collection, Houston
Ernest Bloch: "Prayer," for Cello and Strings
Cellist Ladislav Szathmary with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Mario Kosik
Slovak Radio, Bratislava, Slovakia
Steve Reich: Double Sextet
eighth blackbird with members of the Oberlin College Contemporary Music Ensemble
Finney Chapel, Oberlin, Ohio
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