Make once more my Heart thy Home: The choral music of Hans Gál (Prague)
Choral concert by Hans Gál and his influences at the Spanish Synagogue, Prague, during Czech 'Out of the Shadows' Festival
| Date | 18th September 2016 |
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| URL | http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk/events/make-once-more-my-heart-thy-home-a-composer-in-exile/ |
| Format | Video |
Hans Gál was one of a generation of Jewish composers forced to flee Austria when the Nazis invaded. This programme celebrates Gál’s love of choral music, placing his own settings of poems by Shakespeare, Blake, Johnson, Shelley, and Queen Elizabeth I amidst the music he most admired, including Schütz, Haydn, Schumann and Brahms.
Programme
Hans Gál – Motette, op. 19
Hans Gál – Epigramme, op. 27
Hans Gál – Four Partsongs for mixed voices (posth.)
Hans Gál – Drei Gesänge, op. 37
Hans Gál – Four Madrigals for mixed voices, op. 51
Heinrich Schütz – Selig sind die Toten
Joseph Haydn - Die Harmonie in der Ehe
Robert Schumann – Gute Nacht
Johannes Brahms - Schaffe in mir Gott
Filmed by Olivia Thomas, Simon Glass, Stefan Fairlamb
