Summary: As one of Scotland's most respected ensembles and foremost chamber group, the Hebrides Ensemble present On The Brink: a beautiful and powerful programme of music written in Nazi concentration camps that celebrates the flowering of the human spirit in the most inhumane of circumstances. On The Brink is a programme of music written between 1939 and 1941 that includes work by major composers Gordon Klein and Hans Krasa written when they were both held in the Theresienstadt Camp in Nazi Germany. Hans Krasa was eventually sent off to Auschwitz, from which he never returned. The Second World War also almost ended Bela Bartok's career; he wrote his String quartet No 6 just before fleeing Hungary for the US. PROGRAMME Kaddish: The Jewish Prayer for the Dead Gideon Klein: String Trio Hans Krasa: Passacaglia and Fugue Bela Bartok: String Quartet No. 6
