Official opening of the Out of the Shadows (Ze Stínu) Festival in Prague. Patron: The Austrian Embassy in Prague

Učiň ještě jednou mé srdce svým domovem

(Make once more my heart thy home)

Official festival opening

Hans Gál was one of a generation of Jewish composers forced to flee Austria when the Nazis invaded. This programme celebrated Gál’s love of choral music, placing his own settings of poems by Shakespeare, Blake, Johnson, Shelley, and Queen Elizabeth I amidst the music he most admired, including Schütz, Haydn, Schumann and Brahms.

The concert took place in Prague's spectacular Spanish Synagogue.

With special thanks to: the Austrian Ambassador to the Czech Republic; the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society; the Jewish Museum in Prague

Programme

Hans Gál – Motette, op. 19

Hans Gál – Epigramme, op. 27

Hans Gál – Four Partsongs for mixed voices (posth.)

Hans Gál – Drei Gesänge, op. 37

Hans Gál – Four Madrigals for mixed voices, op. 51

Heinrich Schütz – Selig sind die Toten

Joseph Haydn - Die Harmonie in der Ehe

Robert Schumann – Gute Nacht

Johannes Brahms - Schaffe in mir Gott