Bruno Walter, composer?
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
Context is a shocking thing. Looking through a list of concerts performed by inmates at the Theresienstadt concentration camp between 1942 and 1944, I was taken aback to find a chamber work by Bruno Walter. Most of the music performed was either by major Austrian and Czech names, with a fair sampling by composers who were themselves incarcerated in the camp — Ullmann, Haas, Krasa, Ilse Weber — all destined for deportation to the Auschwitz death camp.
Bruno Walter was an outlier in this company…
Read on here.
And here.
In the Critic here.
En francais ici.
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