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In the organizer's words:

4th Bach Choir Concert / Arnold Schönberg: "A Survivor from Warsaw" / Johannes Brahms: "A German Requiem"

concert
St. Peter's Church

Speaker

Ks. Winfrid Mikus

soprano

Irina Simmes

Baritone

James Young

Bach Choir Heidelberg

Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Dietger Holm

One of Arnold Schönberg's most expressive compositions is "A Survivor from Warsaw". A monumental work of harrowing realism in text and music - one of the most important and most widely recognized confrontations with the Holocaust. Schönberg depicts the suffering of an entire people in just 99 bars. The narrative, written by the composer himself, describes the terror of the Nazi regime using a typical scenario in the Warsaw ghetto. For the final section of the male choir, he draws on the Jewish creed "Shema Yisroel".

Johannes Brahms' text idea for his Requiem is also unusual: he has compiled parts from the Old and New Testaments in Luther's translation in such a way that the central ideas of "mourning" and "consolation" are clearly related to each other - an interdenominational funeral service.