Through recordings, Music of Remembrance makes the precious musical legacy of Holocaust musicians and artists available to all, thanks to an ongoing partnership with Naxos, the world's leading classical music label. MOR's recording projects are an essential but expensive part of our mission. Please inquire about underwriting opportunities for upcoming recordings.
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Schoenfield & Schwarz - Camp Songs & Ghetto Songs
American composer and pianist Paul Schoenfield is at the keyboard for two searing, heart-piercing works commissioned by Music of Remembrance. Schoenfield gives voice to the words of two brilliant poets - one a Holocaust survivor, one murdered - and the range of their emotions through rage, bitter humor, tenderness and fragile hope. This first English recording of his Camp Songs (a 2003 Pulitzer Prize finalist) joins the newest song cycle Ghetto Songs - transporting listeners from the horrors of the Sachenhausen concentration camp near Berlin to life in the Krakow Ghetto. Gerard Schwarz's Rudolf & Jeanette is a haunting, romantic chamber orchestra work evoking the life and love of the composer’s Viennese grandparents, who were killed by the Nazis.
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For A Look or a Touch Young American composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer’s “brilliant, moving work” (American Record Guide) is based on the true story of two gay teenage lovers the Holocaust tore apart forever. With an elegiac piece for cello and string quartet, In Memoriam, by Gerard Schwarz; and American composer Lori Laitman’s song cycle The Seed of Dream, based on poetry by Vilna Ghetto survivor Abraham Sutzkever. |
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Brundibár Opera News called MOR’s recording of Hans Krása’s beloved children’s opera—the first with playwright Tony Kushner’s English adaptation of the libretto—one of the top ten opera CDs of 2007. A memorial to Brundibár’s original performers, the children of Terezín, the disc also includes American composer Lori Laitman’s song cycle I Never Saw Another Butterfly, drawing on six extraordinary poems by Terezín’s child prisoners. Underwritten by the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences. |
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“The combination of Thomas Pasatieri’s romantic, moving score and Jane Eaglen’s brilliant, expressive soprano makes for an unforgettable listening experience. I found the piece extraordinarily moving and Gerard Schwarz’s conducting seemed to bring out so much of the serious and elegiac qualities. The singing of the Kaddish at the conclusion must move anyone who hears it.” —Speight Jenkins, General Director, Seattle Opera
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