Our popular Sunday afternoon series brings intimate music to the light-filled sanctuary of Ottawa's historic St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Curated by Sam Loeck, the NAC Orchestra's Principal Double Bass, this program honours the legacy of Jewish composers whose voices were silenced in 1940s Germany.

A selection of songs from Erich Wolfgang Korngold—whose film scores defined the sound of Hollywood's Golden Age—showcases his gift for soaring lyricism, fusing the gripping storytelling of German art songs with the theatricality of American cabaret.

Trios by Gideon Klein and Erwin Schulhoff, two composers whose lives were taken in the Holocaust, pay homage to the music of their respective homelands. Klein's String Trio weaves together elements of Moravian folk music, while Schulhoff's Concertino for flute, viola, and bass marries popular Czech and Carpathian melodies with the wild rhythms of jazz.

Also on the program, Richard Strauss's Metamorphosen, composed during the final months of the Second World War, mourns the loss of life and the devastation of Europe wrought by the conflict.