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Review: One Day: Music and the Holocaust, Howard Assembly Room, Leeds Thursday 27th January 2022

Trying to pass off the brutal camp as a 'spa' for propaganda, the Nazis inadvertently set the stage for creativity by bringing many of the top Jewish artists together in one place

A day of concerts featuring music written in imprisonment during the Holocaust was a powerful testament moving from rage to irony <strong><br></strong>

Czech-Jewish composers murdered by the Nazis live again in magnificent performances. Classical Music/Opera review by David Nice

Whether it’s Guillermo del Toro’s noirish carnival, a gothic synthpop duo or the return of British art masterpiece, our critics have your plans for the week covered

"Our Will to Live" provides a new lens on the musical performances that took place in the Nazi concentration camp.

"Our Will to Live" provides a new lens on the musical performances that took place in the Nazi concentration camp.

Amnon Weinstein, an Israeli violin shop owner and master craftsman, reclaimed his lost heritage by restoring instruments nearly lost during the Holocaust. A concert featuring some of those instruments is

Theresienstadt: Studenten entdecken NS-verfolgte Komponisten

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Jonathan Plowright. The British pianist opens this concert with Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s D minor Chaconne which was performed by Busoni himself at the opening of the Hall almost 120 years ago. This is followed by the six pieces that make up Liszt’s Consolations S172. The concert closes with Grieg’s Holberg Suite Op. 40, originally written for piano before Grieg adapted it for string orchestra. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE 1...