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The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gergely Madaras. Works by Bloch, Weiner, Ullmann and Jonathan Dove's In Exile, with cellist Raphael Wallfisch and baritone Simon Wallfisch.

Recorded at Maida Vale Studios on Tuesday 14th January 2025. Presented by Ian Skelly

László Weiner Overture, for small orchestra
Jonathan Dove In Exile
Ernest Bloch Suite Symphonique
Viktor Ullmann Symphony No. 2

Simon Wallfisch (baritone)
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Gergely Madaras (conductor)

A concert given by the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra to mark both the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and International Holocaust Memorial Day 2025. The orchestra, conducted by Gergerly Madaras, presents works by composers of Jewish heritage whose lives were ended by the Nazis in the Holocaust, alongside a composer exiled to the United States, and a commemorative work written in 2020 by Jonathan Dove. Dove's In Exile explores the universal experience of exile using texts by writers including Shakespeare, Dante and Khalil Gibran. It is dedicated to cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfish, a surviving member of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, and in this performance sees her son cellist Raphael Wallfisch and grandson, baritone Simon Wallfisch as soloists.

Ernest Bloch was exiled from Switzerland to the USA in 1939. His will to compose diminished, and it was not until 1944 that he rediscovered his voice – producing this Suite Symphonique. Bookending the programme are Hungarian László Weiner’s Overture and Austrian Viktor Ullmann’s powerful Second Symphony.
Both works were left unpublished at the composers’ deaths in Nazi camps.

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