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The 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gergely Madaras. Works by Bloch, Weiner, Ullmann and Jonathan Dove's In Exile, with cellist Raphael Wallfisch and baritone Simon Wallfisch.

The 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gergely Madaras. Works by Bloch, Weiner, Ullmann and Jonathan Dove's In Exile, with cellist Raphael Wallfisch and baritone Simon Wallfisch.

Recorded at Maida Vale Studios on Tuesday 14th January 2025. Presented by Ian Skelly

L谩szl贸 Weiner Overture, for small orchestra
Jonathan Dove In Exile
Ernest Bloch Suite Symphonique
Viktor Ullmann Symphony No. 2

Simon Wallfisch (baritone)
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
91热爆 Symphony Orchestra
Gergely Madaras (conductor)

A concert given by the 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra to mark both the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and International Holocaust Memorial Day 2025. The orchestra, conducted by Gergerly Madaras, presents works by composers of Jewish heritage whose lives were ended by the Nazis in the Holocaust, alongside a composer exiled to the United States, and a commemorative work written in 2020 by Jonathan Dove. Dove's In Exile explores the universal experience of exile using texts by writers including Shakespeare, Dante and Khalil Gibran. It is dedicated to cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfish, a surviving member of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, and in this performance sees her son cellist Raphael Wallfisch and grandson, baritone Simon Wallfisch as soloists.

Ernest Bloch was exiled from Switzerland to the USA in 1939. His will to compose diminished, and it was not until 1944 that he rediscovered his voice 鈥� producing this Suite Symphonique. Bookending the programme are Hungarian L谩szl贸 Weiner鈥檚 Overture and Austrian Viktor Ullmann鈥檚 powerful Second Symphony.
Both works were left unpublished at the composers鈥� deaths in Nazi camps.

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Music Played

  • L谩szl贸 Weiner

    Overture for Orchestra

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gergely Madaras.

  • Jonathan Dove

    In Exile

    Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Singer: Simon Wallfisch. Orchestra: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gergely Madaras.

  • Sylvie Bodorov谩

    Babadag for Clarinet and String Quartet

    Performer: Irvin Veny拧. Ensemble: 脡poque Quartet.
    • ARCO DIVA.

  • Viktor Ullmann

    3 Jiddische Lieder, Op. 53: No. 1. The Little Birch

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Erwin Schulhoff

    Susi

    Performer: Marleen Asberg. Performer: Gerard Bouwhuis.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Viktor Ullmann

    Symphony in D major [reconstructed by Bernhard Wulff from Sonata for piano no.7]

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gergely Madaras.

  • Ernest Bloch

    Suite symphonique

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gergely Madaras.

  • Le贸 Weiner

    Romanze

    Performer: Ditta Rohmann. Performer: Melinda Fellet谩r. Orchestra: M脕V Szimfonikus zenekar. Conductor: Val茅ria Cs谩nyi.
    • Weiner: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Este (evening)

    Choir: Danish National Vocal Ensemble. Conductor: Marcus Creed. Singer: Christine Nonbo Andersen.
    • Kod谩ly & Ligeti: Choral Works.
    • OUR Recordings.
    • 601.

Broadcast

  • Mon 27 Jan 2025 19:30
    91热爆 Radio 3