| Notes: | Music written by composers imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp; includes lieder, cabaret songs, lullabies, and a sonata for solo violin. The 7th work is a contrafactum of the song Komm mit nach Varasdin from the operetta Gräfin Maritza by Emmerich Kálmán.
Principally for voice and piano; the 1st-3rd works also with accordion; the 5th work also with double bass; the 11th work also with clarinet; the 9th work for voice and guitar; the 10th work for voice and clarinet, viola, and violoncello.
Title from disc label.
Program notes by Ulrike Migdal in German with English and French translations, and texts with English, French, and German translations (55 p. : ports.) inserted in container.
Executive Producers: Valérie Gross, Dr. Marion Theim. Recording producer: Sid McLauchlan.
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano (1st-3rd, 5th-6th, 8th-9th, 11th-13th works) ; Christian Gerhaher, baritone (4th, 7th, 10th, 14th works) ; Daniel Hope, violin (last work) ; Bengt Forsberg (1st-3rd, 5th-6th, 8th, 11th-13th works), Gerold Huber (4th, 7th, 10th, 14th works), piano ; Bebe Risenfors, accordion (1st-3rd works), double bass (5th work), guitar (9th work) ; Ib Hausmann, clarinet (10th work) ; Philip Dukes, viola (10th work) ; Josephine Knight, violoncello (10th work).
Recorded 2006 February, Teldex Studios, Berlin, and 2007 February, Bavaria-Musik-Studios, Munich.
Sung in Czech, French, German, and Yiddish.
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