TMF RECORDINGS • a selection
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TMF COMMISSIONS: HONORING THE LEGACY

Andre Previn, Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet, 2011. "Slow" movement.
Thomas Martin, clarinet, and the Hawthorne String Quartet.
This TMF Commission had its world premiere at Symphony Hall, Boston, November 2011. 
David L. Post, String Quartet No. 2., Fourth movement: Allegro Agitato. Hawthorne String Quartet. Turquoise Bee Productions. "Concert for Terezin" CD Produced by Terezin Music Foundation as a benefit for Terezin flood relief in 2002.

MUSIC FROM TEREZIN & "ENTARTETE (DEGENERATE) MUSIC"

Karel Svenk "Why Does the White Man Sit in the Front of the Bus?" Composed in Terezin and preserved by George Horner, who performed this and other wrks by Svenk in Terezin, and arranged by David Post. 
Hawthorne String Quartet with Thomas Martin, clarinet.
Karel Svenk was a leading figure in Terezin's cultural life, best remembered for his secret camp anthem, the "Terezin March," and his cabaret revues, including the satire "The Last Cyclist," censored by the Nazis. Svenk was sent to Auschwitz and died on a subsequent transport to Mauthausen. 
Pavel Haas String Quartet No. 3, op 15 (1938). First movement, Allegro moderato.
Hawthorne String Quartet. Decca.
Prolific Czech composer Pavel Haas wrote his String Quartet No. 3 before his transport to Terezin, where he continued to compose alongside Gideon Klein, Hans Krasa, and others. He was soon deported to Auschwitz, where he was murdered in the gas chambers.
Gideon Klein, Duo for Violin and Cello, 1941.
Si-Jing Huang, violin; Sato Knudsen, cello. Northeastern.
The extraordinary young composer Gideon Klein was among the first sent to Terezin, where he contributed greatly to the arts even amidst horror and deprivation. He was later sent to Auschwitz and finally to Fürstengrubbe, where he died in 1945. This Duo was begun just before his transport to Terezin, it was never completed.
Viktor Ullmann, String Quartet No. 3 Op. 46 (Terezin 1943).
Hawthorne String Quartet. Turquoise Bee Productions. "Concert for Terezin" CD Produced by Terezin Music Foundation as a benefit for Terezin flood relief in 2002.
This is the first movement of the String Quartet written in Terezin by Viktor Ullmann, a Czech composer who perished in Auschwitz. 
Erwin Schulhoff, Concerto for String Quartet and Wind Orchestra, 1930. 
The Hawthorne String Quartet and Andreas Delfs/Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie — Schulhoff: Concertos Alla Jazz. 
London Decca. 
Erwin Schulhoff was a German-Jewish composer born in Prague, who was persecuted by the Nazis and died in the Wulsburg concentration camp. Terezín Music Foundation is grateful to have championed his music; the Hawthorne String Quartet recorded Schulhoff's Concerto for String Quartet and Wind Orchestra with London Decca (as you can hear here), performed its American premiere with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in January 1995, and most recently performed it with the BSO in October 2012.
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