‘Entartete Musik’
December 21, 2009 by Michael Haas
If Zubin Mehta hadn’t heard the recording, we wouldn’t all be here tonight.’ Thus spoke Barbara Zeisl-Schoenberg on October 4th 2009 following the opening concert of the Vienna Philharmonic subscription series, one of the most prestigious series anywhere with a waiting list of fifteen years per ticket.
The central feature of the concert was Erich Zeisl’s setting of the 92nd Psalm which, in memory of his parents who had been murdered in the camps, he had called Requiem Ebraico. Mehta had already conducted the work in Israel before his decision to make it the centrepiece of the opening of the season. Read more
