Name: BBC SO: The Theresienstadt Orchestra
Start: 2022-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Conductor

Alpesh Chauhan

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

BBC SO: The Theresienstadt Orchestra

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Barbican Concert Hall

BBC Total Immersion: Music for the End of Time: Overture for small orchestra (Ouverture für kleines Orchester) Krása (+2 More)

Public

Private

Concert

Overture for small orchestra (Ouverture für kleines Orchester)

Study for strings

Symphony No. 5

Approved

Musical testaments by Krása and Haas written inside Theresienstadt, and a compelling symphony by Schulhoff that warns of impending human catastrophe.

The driving rhythms, arching melodies and orchestral panache of Hans Krása’s Overture for Small Orchestra barely hint at the place it was written: the Theresienstadt ghetto. It proved impossible to perform Krása’s Overture in Theresienstadt, unlike Pavel Haas’s Study for Strings, written and played there in 1943. The angry cross rhythms and Moravian tunes typical of the composer fill this concise but powerful work. 

Krása and Haas were both murdered at Auschwitz. Erwin Schulhoff met his end at a camp in Wülzburg. After a career marked by his interest in surrealism and jazz, Schulhoff’s Symphony No 5, completed in 1939, appears to revel in the plushness of the symphony orchestra. What soon emerges is a score charged with tension and foreboding, whose culmination in unrestrained aggression now seems unsettlingly prophetic.

English

BBC SO: The Theresienstadt Orchestra by Krása, Haas, P., Šulhov, From (2022/2022), Conductor Alpesh Chauhan, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

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Venues