A recording featuring music of Jake Heggie, Gerard Schwarz and Lori Laitman.
Baritone Morgan Smith (Manfred) and veteran baritone Julian Patrick (Gad) are joined by a quintet of extraordinary instrumentalists for this theatrical song cycle commissioned by Seattle’s Music of Remembrance (Mina Miller, artistic director).
Librettist Gene Scheer based his text on true stories told in the documentary film Paragraph 175 and the journal of Manfred Lewin, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.
For more information about the compositions on this recording, see FOR A LOOK OR A TOUCH (CHORAL/STAGE) (2013) and OUT OF DARKNESS: TWO REMAIN (2016 rev. 2018).You can sample and/or order the Naxos Classical recording. Available on Spotify, Apple Music and iTunes.
