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Corp / Pring / Brownell- Letters from Lony (CD)

SKU: 5060113445070
$20.99
the album cover for Corp / Pring / Brownell - Letters from Lony
the album cover for Corp / Pring / Brownell - Letters from Lony

Leonie ('Lony') Fraenkel was a German-Jewish exile from Nazi Berlin who set up the Café de Paris on Beethovenstraat in Amsterdam in 1939. In late 1939 she sent a card to greet Peter, her first grandson, newly born in safety in England, and over the next three years she sent a series of letters to Peter and his mother, Lony's daughter. In 1943 she was deported first to the Westerbork transit camp, and then to Theresienstadt and, finally, in October 1944 to Auschwitz, where she was gassed two days after her arrival. Many years later, that grandson, Peter, now a grandfather himself, discovered Lony's letters, translated them and brought them to the attention of the composer Ronald Corp. Ronald Corp has set Lony's letters in a series of lyrical arioso recitatives for mezzo-soprano, string quartet, and piano, lasting just over an hour. The cycle was first heard at the Proms in St. Jude's in Hampstead Garden Suburb, North London, in 2017, and now Toccata Classics is releasing it's first recording.

Tracklist:

  1. Letters From Lony: No. 1, 13 September 1939
  2. Letters From Lony: No. 1a, Lullaby
  3. Letters From Lony: No. 2, 28 September 1939
  4. Letters From Lony: No. 3, 16 November 1939
  5. Letters From Lony: No. 4, 3 December 1939
  6. Letters From Lony: No. 5, 18 December 1939
  7. Letters From Lony: No. 5a, Interlude
  8. Letters From Lony: No. 6, 11 February 1940
  9. Letters From Lony: No. 7, 5 May 1940 To Annemarie
  10. Letters From Lony: No. 7a, Interlude. 10 May 1940
  11. Letters From Lony: No. 8, 26 September 1940 To The Family
  12. Letters From Lony: No. 9, Undated, 1940 To The Family
  13. Letters From Lony: No. 10, Undated, Probably About 9 November 1940 To Annemarie
  14. Letters From Lony: No. 11, Undated, Probably Later In November 1940 To The Family
  15. Letters From Lony: No. 11a, Interlude
  16. Letters From Lony: No. 12, 11 February 1941 To Peter
  17. Letters From Lony: No. 13, Unknown Date, Believed To Be 7 December 1940 To Annemarie
  18. Letters From Lony: No. 14, 1 October 1941 To Bachmann
  19. Letters From Lony: No. 15, 6 January 1942 Card Addressed To Hans From Bachmann In Lony’s Name
  20. Letters From Lony: No. 15a, Interlude
  21. Letters From Lony: No. 16, 30 December 1943, From Westerbork Camp To Josef Blum
  22. Letters From Lony: No. 17, 23 February 1944, From Westerbork Camp To Josef Blum

UPC > 5060113445070

Format > New CD

Label > Toccata

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Corp / Pring / Brownell- Letters from Lony (CD)

SKU: 5060113445070
$20.99

Release Date: 01.04.2019

 
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Leonie ('Lony') Fraenkel was a German-Jewish exile from Nazi Berlin who set up the Café de Paris on Beethovenstraat in Amsterdam in 1939. In late 1939 she sent a card to greet Peter, her first grandson, newly born in safety in England, and over the next three years she sent a series of letters to Peter and his mother, Lony's daughter. In 1943 she was deported first to the Westerbork transit camp, and then to Theresienstadt and, finally, in October 1944 to Auschwitz, where she was gassed two days after her arrival. Many years later, that grandson, Peter, now a grandfather himself, discovered Lony's letters, translated them and brought them to the attention of the composer Ronald Corp. Ronald Corp has set Lony's letters in a series of lyrical arioso recitatives for mezzo-soprano, string quartet, and piano, lasting just over an hour. The cycle was first heard at the Proms in St. Jude's in Hampstead Garden Suburb, North London, in 2017, and now Toccata Classics is releasing it's first recording.

Tracklist:

  1. Letters From Lony: No. 1, 13 September 1939
  2. Letters From Lony: No. 1a, Lullaby
  3. Letters From Lony: No. 2, 28 September 1939
  4. Letters From Lony: No. 3, 16 November 1939
  5. Letters From Lony: No. 4, 3 December 1939
  6. Letters From Lony: No. 5, 18 December 1939
  7. Letters From Lony: No. 5a, Interlude
  8. Letters From Lony: No. 6, 11 February 1940
  9. Letters From Lony: No. 7, 5 May 1940 To Annemarie
  10. Letters From Lony: No. 7a, Interlude. 10 May 1940
  11. Letters From Lony: No. 8, 26 September 1940 To The Family
  12. Letters From Lony: No. 9, Undated, 1940 To The Family
  13. Letters From Lony: No. 10, Undated, Probably About 9 November 1940 To Annemarie
  14. Letters From Lony: No. 11, Undated, Probably Later In November 1940 To The Family
  15. Letters From Lony: No. 11a, Interlude
  16. Letters From Lony: No. 12, 11 February 1941 To Peter
  17. Letters From Lony: No. 13, Unknown Date, Believed To Be 7 December 1940 To Annemarie
  18. Letters From Lony: No. 14, 1 October 1941 To Bachmann
  19. Letters From Lony: No. 15, 6 January 1942 Card Addressed To Hans From Bachmann In Lony’s Name
  20. Letters From Lony: No. 15a, Interlude
  21. Letters From Lony: No. 16, 30 December 1943, From Westerbork Camp To Josef Blum
  22. Letters From Lony: No. 17, 23 February 1944, From Westerbork Camp To Josef Blum

UPC > 5060113445070

Format > New CD

Label > Toccata

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