Richard Fuchs - 1932
String Quartet and Songs

Richard Fuchs was a German composer, exiled from his own country, who settled in New Zealand in the 1940s and wrote many works while living here.
Recorded at a special concert co-hosted by B’nai Brith and Beth Shalom in April 2009 at the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Auckland, in remembrance of the Holocaust and ANZAC Day.
The documentary film The Third Richard was also screened.

  • Auf Den Tod Eines Kindes (On a Death of A Child) for mezzo soprano and piano
    Gina Sanders (soprano) and Kay Shacklock (piano)
  • Festtag for mezzo soprano and piano
    Gina Sanders (soprano) and Kay Shacklock (piano) at the Raye Freeman Arts Centre in Auckland 
  • In der Fremde for medium voice and piano
    Gina Sanders (soprano) and Kay Shacklock (piano)
  • String Quartet in D minor for string quartet
    Jade String Quartet – Miranda Adams (violin), William Hanfling (violin), Robert Ashworth (viola) and Claudia Price (cello)