Programme

Steve Reich – Different Trains
Oswaldo Golijov – Yiddishbuk
Dimitri Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 8 in C minor

With readings from children’s poems from Terezin and the writings of the composers.

Performers

Carducci Quartet
Narrator to be announced

As a boy, Steve Reich crossed the USA by luxury train. “I now look back and think that, if I had been in Europe during this period, as a Jew I would have had to ride very different trains” he says. Today, Different Trains is just one of three musical journeys across the horrors of the 20^th century, as the Carducci Quartet performs Osvaldo Golijov’s Yiddishbuk – inspired by children interned at Terezin – and Shostakovich’s furious musical protest against totalitarianism. Readings from the Terezin anthology I Never Saw Another Butterfly provide devastating human context for these three sonic testaments of sorrow, anger, and defiance.