London / Decca 460211-2
Entartete Musik
Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin, Germany
Berlin Radio Children's Choir
Della Jones (Mezzo Soprano)
Michael Kraus (Bass Baritone) *
Deborah Riedel (Soprano) *
Lawrence Foster, cond.
2/1997
57:17
 
1. Franz Waxman (1906 - 1967) : The Song of Terezin (1965) 39:48
A Dramatic Song Cycle For Mezzo Soprano, Mixed & Children's Choruses & Orchestra (1966)
Song Cycle Based on Poems and Drawings by Children in Terezin Concentration Camp
2 picc 2 (d eh) 2 bcl 2 - 4331 - timp - 4 perc: bells/BD/SD/bass & tenor drum/cym/gong/mar/tamb tgl/tom-t/vib/whip/wdbl/xyl - hp - pft/cel - str.
  1 An Einem Sonnigen Abend · On A Sunny Evening 3:53
  2 Versunken · Forgotten 6:29
  3 Das Mäuschen · The Little Mouse 1:51
  4 Vogellied · Birdsong 7:22
  5 Es Ist Zeit · Now It's The Time 4:11
  6 Dachbodenkonzert In Einer Alten Schule · Concert In The Old School Garret 7:10
  7 Der Garten · The Garden 2:49
  8 Finale: Die Furcht · Fear 5:18
Fear [track 8 on "The Song of Terezin"]

My heart still beats inside my breast
While friends depart for other worlds,
Perhaps it’s better --who can say?--
Than watching this, to die today?
No, no, my God, we want to live!
Not watch our numbers melt away.
We want to have a better world,
We want to work--we must not die!

-- Eva Picková, 12 years old, Nymburk
The Garden [track 7 on "The Song of Terezin"]

The little garden where the roses grow
is sweet and heavy with perfume today,
and on the little narrow path
a little boy is wandering alone back and forth.

A sweet little boy, oh, so beautiful and fair,
a little bud that’s just about to bloom.
Yet once the little bud has bloomed
the little boy will be no more.

-- Anonymous, Terezin Concentration Camp
 
2. Eric Zeisl (1905 - 1959) : Requiem Hebraico (1944-45) * 17:29
  9 Tov L'hodos Ladonoy · How Good To Give Thanks Unto The Lord 3:08
10 Alëyosor Vaalëy Novel · I Play On My Strings On The Psaltery 2:10
11 Mah Godlu Maasecho, Adonoy · Oh How Great Are Thy Works, My God 4:10
12 Tzadik Katomor Yifroch · Like The Palm Tree The Righteous Shall Bloom 3:52
13 L'hagid Ki Yoshor Adonoy · To Show That The Lord Is Upright 4:12