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With Different Trains, commissioned by the Kronos Quartet and written in 1988, the American minimalist composer Steve Reich transformed an event of contemporary history into a musical work of art. The “different trains” tell of his childhood, during which he travelled many times across the American continent in order to commute between his separated parents, while at the same time Jewish children in Europe were being deported by train to concentration camps. Reich, who is himself Jewish, superimposes the sounds and rhythms of moving trains with tape recordings of eyewitnesses in a fascinating manner, and thus commemorates the shocking simultaneity of completely divergent realities. Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross was composed in 1787 for a Good Friday service in Cadiz in southern Spain. In their meditative and timeless grandeur, the (almost) exclusively slow movements are among Haydn’s most poignant works.
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