Ronald Corp: Letters from Lony

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Release Date: 28th Dec 2018
Catalogue No: TOCC0507
Label: Toccata Classics
Length: 67 minutes

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Corp: Letters From Lony

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Sarah Pring (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Brownell (piano)
Chilingirian Quartet

Letters from Lony: No. 1, 13 September 1939

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Letters from Lony: No. 1a, Lullaby

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Letters from Lony: No. 2, 28 September 1939

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Letters from Lony: No. 3, 16 November 1939

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Letters from Lony: No. 4, 3 December 1939

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Letters from Lony: No. 5, 18 December 1939

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Letters from Lony: No. 5a, Interlude

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Letters from Lony: No. 6, 11 February 1940

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Letters from Lony: No. 7, 5 May 1940 to Annemarie

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Letters from Lony: No. 7a, Interlude. 10 May 1940

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Letters from Lony: No. 8, 26 September 1940 to the Family

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Letters from Lony: No. 9, Undated, 1940 to the Family

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Letters from Lony: No. 10, Undated, Probably About 9 November 1940 to Annemarie

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Letters from Lony: No. 11, Undated, Probably Later in November 1940 to the Family

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Letters from Lony: No. 11a, Interlude

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Letters from Lony: No. 12, 11 February 1941 to Peter

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Letters from Lony: No. 13, Unknown Date, Believed to be 7 December 1940 to Annemarie

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Letters from Lony: No. 14, 1 October 1941 to Bachmann

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Letters from Lony: No. 15, 6 January 1942 Card Addressed to Hans from Bachmann in Lony’s Name

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Letters from Lony: No. 15a, Interlude

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Letters from Lony: No. 16, 30 December 1943, from Westerbork Camp to Josef Blum

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Letters from Lony: No. 17, 23 February 1944, from Westerbork Camp to Josef Blum

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Leonie (‘Lony’) Fraenkel was a German-Jewish exile from Nazi Berlin who set up the Café de Paris on Beethovenstraat in Amsterdam in 1939.

In late 1939 she sent a card to greet Peter, her first grandson, newly born in safety in England, and over the next three years she sent a series of letters to Peter and his mother, Lony’s daughter.

In 1943 she was deported first to the Westerbork transit camp, and then to Theresienstadt and, finally, in October 1944 to Auschwitz, and was gassed within two days of her arrival.

Many years later, that grandson, Peter, now a grandfather himself, discovered Lony’s letters, had them translated and brought them to the attention of the composer Ronald Corp.

Ronald Corp has set Lony’s letters in a series of lyrical arioso recitatives for mezzo-soprano, string quartet and piano, lasting just over an hour.

The cycle was first heard at the Proms in St Jude’s, in Hampstead Garden Suburb, north London, in 2017, and now Toccata Classics is releasing its first recording.

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