Mini CD
Die Kleine Deutsche Totenmesse (Requiem)
Kosmischer Frühling

40 Polnische Volksgesänge op. 6 (Ausz.) (1925)
Musique Quasi una sonata op. 8 für Karol Szymanowski (1927)
Sonatine op. 12 (1930)
Variationen über einen Walzer von Johann Strauss op. 23 (1935)
Streichtrio op. 10 (1928)
CPO 777979-2
2007/2014

En hommage Józef Koffler
EDA 042

I: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra op.13 (1932)
II: Two Songs op.1 (1917)
III: String Quartet No.2 op.27 ‘Ukrainian Sketches’ (1941)
IV: Quatre poèmes op.22 (1935)
V: Symphony No.2 op.17 (1933)
Textes des poèmes

Walter (Victor) Hahn
(1911, Vienna -29.06.1941, Liepaja)
Conductor and composer.
Walter Hahn was a student of the famous conductor Leo Blech (1871-1958), the chief conductor at Berlin opera until 1937 when the Nazis dismissed him from work for his Jewish origin. Leo Blech came to Riga and worked as the chief conductor at the Latvian national opera.
Walter Hahn followed Leo Blech and arrived in Latvia in 1938. He was a musical director at the Jewish theatre in Riga. From 1940 Walter Hahn worked as the chief conductor at Liepaja music theatre. He staged the ballet based on Andersen's play "The Little Match Girl."
Walter Hahn was killed on the day when German troops marched into Liepaja.

Raisa Otsup
(7.12.1900, Riga - 1941, Riga)
Pianist.
Raisa Otsup studied in Paris with Nikolai Metner, a famous Russian composer and pianist. She gave concerts in Riga, performing musical compositions by Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Stravinsky, Metner and critics often pointed out her exquisite rendering technique.
Raisa Otsup gave private classes and was very popular as a highly qualified instructor. In 1935 she married Sergey Tager, a pianist and a conservatoire instructor, who also died in a ghetto.

Sarah Rashina (or Rashin)
(23.05.1920, Liepaja - 30.11.1941, Riga)
Violinist.
Sarah Rashina gave her first concert at the age of 12 in Jelgava. In 1937 she graduated from the Latvian Conservatoire, Professor A. Mec's (see above) class. In 1937 she was awarded with a diploma from E. Izai's international contest in Brussels.
She gave concerts in Riga, Liepaja, Paris, London, and Warsaw. Her repertoire included "Spanish dance" by De Falla, Jewish tunes arranged by Akhron, musical compositions by Corelli, Wieniawski, Vitold, Tartini, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Tchaïkovski, Izai, and other composers. Critics unanimously recognized Rashina's outstanding talent and irreproachable style of performance. In the summer of 1940 she accompanied the Kemeri orchestra. Sarah Rashina was shot in Rumbula in the environs of Riga.
Legends grew about the last minutes of the famous violinist's life. One of them relates that before death she played the violin on the edge of a mass grave.
Another legend was reflected in the story Black Diamond by Zhanis Griva, a Latvian writer, in which Rashina was portrayed under the name of Lea Girshman.

Roza Slovina
(4.11.1911, Riga -1941, Riga)
Pianist.
In 1933 Roza Slovina graduated from the Latvian Conservatoire with merit, Professor P. Shubert's class. Critics of her first concerts noted the pianist's musicality and style, some lack of technique in the area of rhythm, observation of phrasing, power and distinctness of strike. Roza Slovina performed musical compositions by Skryabin, Medinsh, Chopin, Debussy, and fantasias by Schumann. She improved her skill by studying with A. Borovsky, a famous pianist. In 1937 Roza Slovina performed at the Chopin contest, along with M. Bezobrazova. In 1939 she played her first concert by Tchaïkovski with the Riga Symphony Orchestra in Verman Park in Riga. There Roza Slovina displayed a virtuoso, technically perfect performance. In 1940 she became an instructor at the Latvian Conservatoire and held a class together with A. Zhilinsky, a famous Latvian composer and a pianist.

June 6, 1942
Musical Evening
Piano Solo and Lieder for Choir
R. Bernstein, piano
L. Lewitzka, chant