Gideon’s Suitcase

Pianist David Kaplan celebrates the 100^th birthday of pianist/composer Gideon Klein, who died in Auschwitz. Kaplan plays works Klein championed by Mozart, Schoenberg and Janáček. Lyris Quartet and Jacaranda Winds perform music well hidden in a suitcase until discovered in 1990.

Wolfgang Mozart  Fantasy in C minor, K475
Arnold Schoenberg Six Little Piano Pieces Op. 19
Leos Janáček Sonata “1905, From the Street”
Gideon Klein Piano Sonata; Fantasie & Fugue for string quartet; Partita for string trio, Divertimento for wind octet

David Kaplan piano
Lyris Quartet
Jacaranda Winds