Heartfelt music of the condemned

The Boston Globe | June 4, 2008| | Copyright

BEAUTY CAN come in strange packages, but who would have thought that the imposing-looking CD with a Star of David made out of barbed wire on the cover - "Terezin / Theresienstadt" - would contain some of the most heart-rending classical music of the 20th century?

Spearheaded by the mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, the Deutsche Grammophon CD is a compilation of music by composers who had been herded into the Czechoslovakian concentration camp in order to show how well the Nazis were treating Jews. This ruse fooled some, notably the International Red Cross, but only about 19,000 of the ...

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