Viktor Ullmann was a composer of Jewish origin who was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the late 1930’s. There he continued to compose until he died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. The two symphonies recorded here are reconstructions by scholar Bernhard Wulff, based on the two piano sonatas composed by Ullmann in Theresienstadt and the notes he left written on the scores. The performances by the Brussels Philharmonic under Gerd Albrecht show a high degree of commitment and insight into this marvellous music which, often, will remind the listener of Mahler.
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