As one of Scotland’s most respected ensembles and foremost chamber group, the Hebrides Ensemble present On The Brink: a beautiful and powerful programme of music written in Nazi concentration camps that celebrates the flowering of the human spirit in the most inhumane of circumstances.
On The Brink is a programme of music written between 1939 and 1941 that includes work by major composers Gordon Klein and Hans Krasa written when they were both held in the Theresienstadt Camp in Nazi Germany. Hans Krasa was eventually sent off to Auschwitz, from which he never returned. The Second World War also almost ended Bela Bartok’s career; he wrote his String quartet No 6 just before fleeing Hungary for the US.
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The Hebrides Ensemble : On The Brink
17th Feb to 27th Feb
Regal Community Theatre, Bathgate
Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh
Tollbooth, Stirling
Collegiate Church, Tain
An Lanntair, Stornoway
MacPhail Centre, Ullapool
Sabhail Mhor Ostaig, Skye
Eden Court, Inverness
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
PROGRAMME
Kaddish: The Jewish Prayer for the Dead
Gideon Klein: String Trio
Hans Krasa: Passacaglia and Fugue
Bela Bartok: String Quartet No. 6
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