Lieder von Ilse Weber, Karel Svenk, Adolf Strauss, Martin Roman, Hans Krása, Carlo Sigmund Taube, Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas, sowie aus aus unbekannter Hand, gesungen von Anne Sofie von Oteter bzw. Christian Gerhaher (keine Duette). Den Abschluss macht dann Erwin Schulhoffs Sonate für Violine solo, gespielt von Daniel Hope. Am Klavier bei Otter und Gerhaher sitzen Bengt Forsberg bzw. Gerold Huber, ein paar weitere Instrumentalisten stossen da und dort hinzu: Bebe Risenfors (acc, b, g), Ib Hausmann (cl), Philip Dukes (vla) und Josephine Knight (vc).
Otters Vater war der schwedische Diplomat Göran von Otter:
On August 20, 1942, von Otter met Kurt Gerstein in a train from Warsaw to Berlin. Gerstein was an official at the „Institute of Hygiene“ of the Waffen-SS and was on his way back from the Nazi concentration camp Treblinka. One day earlier, Gerstein had witnessed several hundred Jewish victims being murdered in the gas chambers at Belzec extermination camp.
Gerstein and von Otter happened to be in the same compartment of the train. After the war, von Otter wrote about the encounter that Gerstein gave him a detailed report of what had happened at Belzec, seemed very disturbed by it and implored him to transmit this information to the Swedish authorities. Von Otter did talk with high-ranking officials at the Swedish Foreign Office. However, the information was not passed on to the Allies or to any other party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göran_von_Otter
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