Description

Since November 1999, the “Terezin Concerts” have been held on the morning of the last Sunday before Advent (Totensonntag, dedicated to the memory of the dead) in the “Haus am Münchberg” in Merzig, Saarland. The members of the Bartholdy Ensemble perform works by composers who were persecuted and blacklisted by the National Socialists; the hosts of this event are the Gustav Regler Centre and the Saarland Democracy Foundation. In between two Classical and Romantic masterworks, the four musicians resurrect works by composers who, undeservedly, have still not been adopted as standard concert repertoire. This CD documents one of these concerts. The centre of attention is the impressive Third String Quartet by the Czech composer Pavel Haas. On either side of it there are an early Mozart quartet (K 159) and the famous Rosamunde Quartet D 804 op. 29 by Franz Schubert.