Vocalist Mark Glanville and pianist Marc Verter present Yiddish Winterreise.
First performed in 2007, it is a cycle of mostly traditional Yiddish songs inspired by Schubert’s Winterreise. Described by the former German Ambassador to the Court of St James’s as ‘both a celebration and a cry of anguish’, this extraordinary song cycle reflects the mental journey of a man who has just witnessed his family’s murder by the Nazis and grew out of a need to heal the anger and pain of the Shoah through music. The terrible October pogrom in Israel and its consequences have made its journey and message feel particularly relevant and contemporary.