A musical refutation of Adorno’s dictum that to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric, inspired by the creativity of composer Mieczysław Weinberg in the face of totalitarian brutality from both Hitler and Stalin. The programme also includes music by his Russian friends Dmitri Shostakovich, Georgy Sviridov and Nikolai Myaskovsky, the Ukrainian Boris Lyatoshynsky and the Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz, as well as young French-Jewish composer Olivier Milhaud’s music on the writings of Avrom Sutzkever, whose poetry saw life and beauty amidst the atrocities of the Vilno ghetto. The performance was created by and stars internationally renowned singer Mark Glanville, author of The Goldberg Variations, and Israeli pianist Marc Verter, previously artistic director of the Chelsea Schubert Festival.