Fragility of Freedom: Terezin Lieder

Joseph Middleton and Simon Wallfisch

Thursday 25 January 2024

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For the third year in succession, the Howard Assembly Room presents a concert commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day, which this year has the theme Fragility of Freedom.

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Pianist and Leeds Lieder director Joseph Middleton, together with baritone Simon Wallfisch, perform a hand-picked selection of songs by composers murdered in the holocaust, including Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas, Ilse Weber and Carlos Taube, with diary entries by Ullmann and Gonda Redlich. Joseph comments, “I’m really pleased that Simon Wallfisch can do this recital. He’s the perfect singer for this concert… It will be thoughtful and sensitive and challenging.”

In association with the University of Leeds.

Price

£12 (+£1 booking fee)

Doors
6.45pm

Start time
7.30pm

Duration
1 hour

Programme

Viktor Ullmann ‘Berjoskele’ (from 3 Yiddish Songs (Brezulinka) Op. 53)

Lieder der Tröstung (Albert Steffen)
‘Tote wollen nicht verweilen’
‘Erwachen zu Weihnachten’ (Fragment)

‘Wanderer erwacht in der Herberge’
‘Der müde Soldat’

Carlo Taube ‘Ein Jüdisches Kind’

Pavel Haas Čtyři písně na slova čínské poezie
‘Zaslech jsem divoké husy’
‘V bambusovém háji’
‘Daleko měsíc je domova’
‘Probděná noc’

Leo Strauss ‘Als Ob!’ (arr. I. Farrington)

Viktor Ullmann Der Mensch und sein Tag, 12 Bilder von Hans Günther Adler Op. 47
‘Gang in den Morgen’
‘Gesang’
‘Heimat’
‘Der Liebsten’
‘Blüten’
‘In der Stube’
‘Der Nachbar’
‘Gebete’
‘Im Walde’
‘Verdämmern’
‘Nacht’
‘Stille’

Ilse Weber ‘Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt’

Maurice Ravel Deux mélodies Hebraïques
‘Kaddisch’