My grandfather used to say, “All wars are fought over greed or religion.” Two wars rage today: In Ukraine, over Vladimir Putin’s greed for the land of the old Russian/Soviet empire; and now in Israel, over the very existence of the Jewish state. In this program, music reflecting today’s dark Zeitgeist and evoking the civilizations that genocidal aggressors seek, and must fail, to destroy.
7-9 p.m. EDT
2300-0100 UTC/GMT
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
http://wdce.org
Mendelssohn: Quartet in F minor, Op. 80
Artemis Quartet
(Erato)
Ewelina Nowicka: “Kaddish 1944”
Ewelina Nowicka, violin
Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio/Agnieszka Duczmal
(cpo)
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 83
Boris Giltburg, piano
(Orchid Classics)
Mahler: “Kindertotenlieder”
Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Netherlands Philharmonic/Marc Albrecht
(Pentatone)
Ernest Bloch: “Schelomo, a Hebrew Rhapsody”
Mischa Maisky, cello
Israel Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein
(Deutsche Grammophon)
Valentyn Silvestrov: “Hymn”
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra/Thomas Sanderling
(Grand Piano)
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