Sunday Morning - 27/01/2008

For Holocaust Memorial Day, Iain and musicologist Erik Levi look at some of the music the Nazis banned, some they appropriated to their cause and some that emerged in opposition to the fascist regime. Including: Strauss: Das Bachlein Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) LSO George Szell (conductor) Randy Newman: In Germany Before the War Randy Newman (voice, piano) Zemlinsky: Psalm 13 Koln Philharmonic Choir of the State Music Hall of Dusseldorf James Conlon (conductor) Anon: Terazin-Lied Christian Gerhaher (bass-baritone) Gerold Huber (piano) Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time Joanna MacGregor (piano) Madeleine Mitchell (violin) Christopher van Kampen (cello) David Campbell (clarinet) Mozart: Requiem Aeternam (Introitus) (Requiem) Bavarian RSO and Chorus Colin Davis (conductor) Mozart: Requiem Aeternam (Introitus) (Requiem) Berlin Philharmonic Bruno Kittel Choir Bruno Kittel (conductor) Eisler: Deutsche Sinfonie (Praeludium) Hendrikje Wangemann (soprano) Annette Markert (alto) Matthias Gorne (baritone) Peter Lika (bass) Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Ernst Senff Choir, Berlin Lothar Zagrosek (conductor) Martinu: Memorial for Lidice Czech Philharmonic Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Ilse Weber: Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo) Bengt Forsberg (piano) Bebe Risenfors (strings/accordion) Schubert: Winterreise (Der Wegwieser) Peter Anders (baritone) Michael Raucheisen (piano) Ohki: Boundless Desert with Skulls (Symphony No 5) New Japan Philharmonic Takuo Yuasa (conductor) Tom Lehrer: Song Long Mom Martland: Babi Yar (Epilogue) Residentie Orkest of Den Haag Elgar Howarth (conductor) Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 2 Beaux Arts Trio Flanders and Swann: Twenty Tons of TNT.