Holocaust a music memorial film from Auschwitz

DVD 2005

A music film to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz (2005) in memory of those murdered in the Nazi genocide. A sequence of carefully chosen music, all of it connected in some way with the Holocaust, is interwoven with the powerful accounts of the survivors including those from the men's and women's orchestras.

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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Documentary films

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Internment camp inmates as artists

Nazi concentration camp inmates as artists

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Description:

1 videodisc (88 min.) : color ; 4 3/4 in
polychrome
digital
optical
mixed
PAL
video file
DVD video

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: NR

Other Title:

Music memorial film from Auschwitz [DVD]

Notes:

Title from disc label
Producer, Ben Weston ; director, James Kent
Sinfonietta Cracovia, artistic director ; Robert Kabara ; Camerata Silesia ; John Alexrod, conductor ; The Smith Quartet (Diedre Cooper, Ian Humphries, Charles Mutter, Nic Pendlebury) ; Arkadiusz Adamski ; Emanuel Ax ; Isabel Bayrakdarian ; Iva Bittová ; Tove Dahlberg ; Gerald Finley ; Iwona Hossa ; David Krakauer ; Steven Leas ; Edgaras Montvidas ; Martin Roscoe ; Kate Royal ; Maxim Vengerov ; Michael Ward-Bergeman
Filmed on location at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, Oświęcim, Poland
DVD ; PAL format, aspect ratio 16:9

Contents:

Requiem. Introitus / Mozart
Mazurka in C sharp minor / Chopin
Diffent trains. Europe--During the war / Reich
El male rachamim, from the Jewish liturgy
Symphony no. 3. Mvt. II / Górecki
Gypsy lament
Quartet for the end of time. Vocalise for the angel who announces the end of time / Messiaen
Excerpt form the Emperor of Atlantis / Ullmann
Chaconne (for violin solo) / J.S. Bach

Control Number:

916111

Other Authors:

British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service
Kent, James
Państwowe Muzeum Oświęcim-Brzezinka
Weston, Ben, 1969-

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