HOLOCAUST DAY MEMORIAL CONCERT
on The South Bank,  Purcell Room, London SEl

29 January 2002 
 

 
In a first time collaboration between two cousins, cellist Natalie Clein and
playwright Julia Pascal, connect their work.

A moving and provocative evening, combining a rich variety of rarely- performed Jewish Chamber Music connected to texts which are satirical
and disturbing.

Natalie Clein  is one of Europe’s foremost  soloists and will be accompanied by
four internationally acclaimed musicians. Works to be performed are by
composers murdered by the Nazis.

Extracts from  Julia Pascal’s Holocaust Trilogy will be performed by members
of her Company including Ruth Posner,
Amanda Boxer and Louisa Clein, Natalie Clein’s sister.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Programme

Ervin Schulhoff (l894-1942) Five pieces for String Quartet

Gideon Klein (l9l9-l944) Adagio from Piano Sonata

Hans Krasa (l899-l944)  “Tanec” (Dance) for String Trio (l943), “Passacaglia a Fuga” For String Trio (l944)

Ernst  Bloch (l880-l959) “Jewish Song” for Cello and Piano

Berthold Goldschmidt (l903-l996) “Retrospectrum” for String Trio

Ervin Schulhoff String Quartet Number One.
 
Musicians       

Natalie Clein Cello
Katharine Gowers Violin
Tatjana Masurenko Viola
Antje Weithaas Violin
Charles Owen Piano
 
Natalie Clein  won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition in l994 and was the first ever British winner of the Eurovision Competition for Young Musicians in Warsaw. She studied at the Royal College of Music where she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Scholarship.

Still only  twenty four, Natalie Clein has performed at the BBC Proms, the Wigmore Hall, Cheltenham and Bath Festivals and her international appearances have included the Verbier, the Delft and the Divonne Festivals. She plays in regular partnerships with Julius Drake, Itamar Golan and Charles Owen. Her chamber music collaborations include the Schumann Quintet with Martha Argerich and an appearance at the City of London Festival with Steven Isserlis. She has performed with the Hallé Orchestra (Elgar Concerto) and the London Mozart Players performing the Haydn D major concerto, which she also performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Radio 3. With the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (St Magnus Festival) she played the Dvorak concerto.

Her latest season includes appearances  with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Elgar Concerto),  and The Last Night of the Proms with the BBC 
National 0rchestra of Wales (Tchaikovsky Roccoco Variations) and forthcoming concerts with  The Philharmonia Orchestra (Elgar) and European Chamber Orchestra (Haydn C Major) as well as  UK  recitals with Itamar Golan and
Charles Owen. She will be performing at the Wigmore Hall with Itamar Golan on March 12 in the Jacqueline du Pré Memorial Recital.

 Julia Pascal is the author of The Holocaust Trilogy which has been performed widely over the past ten years in Britain and continental Europe.

Theresa, deals with how the Channel Islands betrayed the Jews to the Nazis on the only British territory to be occupied by Hitler’s troops.

A Dead Woman On Holiday is a love story set in the Nuremberg Trials and The Dybbuk is a homage to Anski’s great play reworked and reinterpreted as a play of resistance set in the Warsaw Ghetto in l942.  Theresa was adapted for
the radio as The Road To Paradise and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It was nominated for the Sony Prize.

Pascal’s latest plays The Yiddish Queen Lear and  Woman On The Moon  were performed in 200l and, like The Holocaust Trilogy are published by Oberon Books.

 


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The Holocaust Education Trust