BROSSA STRING QUARTET was born on 2004 by some musicians of Orquestra de Cambra Terrassa 48. Its vocation is to make a repertoire far from the usual stages of the classical music and try to find out affinities with all kinds of music. Its tone is complemented by sounds of artists of other disciplines as actors, dancers, writers, sculpturs, poets...
The concert-show was premiered on the 1st of February 2007 and has visit a great number of scenarios in Catalonia and Spain, and has achieved a great success with the audience and the critics.
“Músiques de l’Holocaust” is a musical action (text and music) mainly conceived from the artistic material collected in the Nazi concentration camps and created by the victims.
Along the Second World War, lots of people related to the Nazi regime used to record the popular songs sung by their victims in order to avoid the extinction of their traditions, despite their deaths.
Brossa Quartet de Corda suggests a journey through this music that, in spite of everything, survived the Holocaust. Mixing classical music and klezmer, Mediterranean and gypsy, that’s how Brossa Quartet de Corda makes an imaginative exercise of reconstructing the musical and historical memory. And besides that, they invite you to listen the defeated voices, from the texts written by survivors or texts that evoke their real drama.
Music by Rudi Gogël, Herbert Zipper, Alexander Kulisiewich, Daniel Pokrass, Mordecai Gebirtg, Shalom Secunda, M.Miksne and some unknown authorship. All them arranged by Gregori Ferrer.
Texts by Primo Levi, Joaquim Amat Piniella, Mercè Núñez Targa, Jorge Semprún, Anita Lasker-Walfisch, Imre Kertész, Salvatore Quasimodo, León Felipe and Tadeusz Rózewicz.
Brossa Quartet de Corda:
Aleix Puig Caminal, violin
Pere Bartolomé Valls, violin
Imma Lluch Revert, viola
Oleguer Aymamí Busqué, cello
- Accordion and musical arrangements: Gregori Ferrer
- Actor: Elies Barberà
