Jacob Mühlrads Kaddish

The Swedish Radio Choir offers a programme that pays respect to the dead. Maija Einfelde’s Lux Aeterna gives consolation with light, heavenly sounds. Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae by Ernst Krenek, a piece equally influenced by the renaissance’s modality and 20^th century modernism, is a piercing lamentation. In commissioned piece Kaddish by Jacob Mühlrad, the composer meets his grandfather who survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Bach’s funeral cantata Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit ends the concert with dignity and hope.