Musica Rediviva: Don Quixote; Cornet; Pianoconcert (1995)

Het Orkest v/h Oosten en Ralph van Raat spelen 24/9/2010 Ullmans pianoconcert, o.l.v. Gerd Albrecht, die hier het Tsjechisch Philharmonisch Orkest leidt. "Ullmann was born in 1898 in Cieszyn. Both his parents were of Jewish descent, but had converted to Catholicism. In 1942 he was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Up to his deportation his list of works had reached 41 opus numbers and contained the piano concerto Op. 25, which he finished in December 1939, nine months after the entry of German troops into Prague. Most of these works are missing. Thirteen works, entrusted to a friend, survived. In these works, and particularly in the Emperor and the Cornet, Ullmann struggled to accommodate the realities of the living conditions in a Nazi concentration camp, the aesthetic problem of transforming already existing material into artistic shape, and the ethical problem of the continuous conflict between spirit and matter. In October 1944 he was killed in the Auschwitz gas chambers." (Wikipedia)