Terezín - Theresienstadt (Anne Sofie von Otter album)

Terezín / Theresienstadt
Studio album by Anne Sofie von Otter
Released 2008
Genre Classical music
Label Deutsche Grammophon

Terezín – Theresienstadt is a 2008 recital album by mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, her regular pianist Bengt Forsberg and guests.[1][2] Von Otter is accompanied by baritone Christian Gerhaher in some of the songs and Daniel Hope concludes the disc with Erwin Schulhoff's sonata for solo violin.[3][4]

The album starts with Theresienstadt cabaret songs by Ilse Weber, Karel Švenk and Martin Roman (who survived the camps), as well as classical composers Hans Krása, Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas, and Erwin Schulhoff.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Diapason 2007 – issues 548–553 – p. 123 "Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Christian Gerhaher (baryton), Bengt Forsberg, Gerold Huber (piano), Bebe Risentors ... d'une ville-jardin où l'on s'amusait beaucoup. Sofie von Otter est restée frappée par l'histoire de Terezin et par la musique qui s'y composa."
  2. ↑ BBC Music Magazine – Volume 16, issues 7–12 - p. 7, 2008 " ... notes and song lyrics is frustrating in the case of recitals such as Anne Sofie Von Otter's Terezin/Theresienstadt."
  3. ↑ The Gramophone 2007 – Volume 85, issues 1020–1023 – p. 142 "Terezin / Theresienstadt Anne Sofie von Otter and friends DG As Patrick O'Connor suggests, this is an album that transcends criticism and must be heard. The tale of Theresienstadt is as ..."
  4. ↑ Opernwelt – Volume 49 – 2008 – p. 131 "von der Mezzosopranistin Anne Sofie von Otter unter Mitwirkung des Baritons ... Es sind Kompositionen aus dem Nazi-Vorzeigelager Theresienstadt von Viktor Ullmann, Erwin Schulhoff, Hans Kräsa"
  5. ↑ Allmusic com review
  6. ↑ 2007 International Record Review – Volume 8, issue 1 – p. 75 "Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo); Christian Gerhaher (baritone); Hausmann (clarinet); Daniel Hope (violin) ... Theresienstadt or Terezin was the concentration camp some kilometres from Prague to which the Nazis deported the Jewish community of that ... Anne Sofie von Otter has the pianist Bengt Forsberg for the lullabv Wiegala and its hint of Schubert is almost unendurable."


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