Two Rivers Media has released has released a soundtrack album for the documentary The Last Musician of Auschwitz. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jessica Dannheisser (Daddy Issues, Whitstable Pearl, Knuckle, Silverpoint, A Kind of Spark), as well as pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann, among others, arranged by Dannheisser. Also included is musicologist Petra Gelbart’s performance of There Is a Large Building in Auschwitz, as well as the rendition of the Jewish Deathsong (a reworking of a traditional Yiddish folk song, devised by Berlin choirmaster Martin Rosebury D’Arguto) that ends the film. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack and also listen a track from Dannheisser’s score below. The Last Musician of Auschwitz is directed by Toby Trackman and tells the story of cellist (and grandmother of film composer Benjamin Wallfisch) Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who at 99 is the only surviving member of the Women’s Orchestra at Auschwitz. The movie aired on the BBC this past January around the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the notorious death camp and has also been released in select UK theaters.
Here’s the track list of the album:
1. Prologue (2:25)
2. I Heard Mozart (1:21)
3. Eine kleine Nachtmusik K.525 Romanze – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Jessica Dannheiser feat. Philippe Griffin, Simon Blendis, Raphael Wallfisch & Elizabeth Wallfisch (1:51)
4. Life Before (2:16)
5. Ilse Weber (2:02)
6. Und Der Regen Rinnt (And the Rain Runs) – Ilse Weber & Jessica Dannheiser feat. Liv Migdal (2:16)
7. The Train to Auschwitz (1:51)
8. We Had to Run (2:48)
9. Träumerei – Robert Schumann & Jessica Dannheiser feat. Raphael Wallfisch (2:47)
10. Roma Victims (1:55)
11. Aušvicate Hi Kher Baro (There Is a Large Building in Auschwitz) – Petra Gelbart & Jessica Dannheiser) (2:49)
12. Kopyciński (1:38)
13. Kołysanka (Lullaby) – Adam Kopyciński & Jessica Dannheiser feat. Francesco Lotoro (1:23)
14. Szymon Laks (1:23)
15. Streichquartett Nr. 3 (String Quartet No.3) On Polish Folk Themes II. Poco lento sostenuto – Szymon Laks & Jessica Dannheiser feat. Philippe Griffin, Simon Blendis, Raphael Wallfisch & Elizabeth Wallfisch (4:44)
16. The Stench (2:06)
17. Final Solution (0:46)
18. Ilse at Auschwitz (1:35)
19. Wiegala – Ilse Weber & Jessica Dannheiser feat. Liv Migdal (3:00)
20. Liberation (1:53)
21. Remember (1:02)
22. Rosebery D’Arguto (1:20)
23. Jüdischer Todessang (Jewish Deathsong) – Rosebery D’Arguto & Jessica Dannheiser feat. Ben Caplan (3:25)
24. El Maleh Rachamim (Merciful God) (feat. Ben Caplan) (2:13)
