JOSEF TAL:
Exodus:
I. Introduction — Servitude
II. Prayer
III. Exodus
IV. The Passage of the Red Sea
V. Miriam’s Dance – VI. Andante

WALTER KAUFMANN:
Indian Symphony:
I. First Movement
II. Second Movement
III. Third Movement

MARCEL RUBIN:
Symphony No. 4 ‘Dies Irae’:
I. Kinderkreuzzug
II. Dies irae – Allegro deciso
III. Pastorale – Andante

TON and Leon Botstein have helped rescue a growing list of works from oblivion, rediscoveries that bring us wonderful music we might never have encountered otherwise and remind us there is more to music history than the standard fare. This album unites three German-speaking Jewish composers, born within a few years of one another in the first decade of the 20th century. All three were lucky enough to escape the Holocaust and start anew after the traumatic interruption of the war years. Their works recorded here were all written during the 1940s: in Jerusalem, Bombay (Mumbai) and Mexico City, respectively. They show three young composers striving to find their own voices, while at the same time trying to adapt to their new environments.