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The Rainy Road

27th of January - Holocaust Remembrance Day
IMPORTANT: Please watch the video for the "Dance of the Forgotten" here: http://youtu.be/bFbuBmyxMZ4
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Among the millions of victims of the Nazi Regime and the Holocaust, one group is still forgotten today: the nearly 400.000 victims were people with disabilites in the so called "Euthanasie" programs. In fact, they were the first victims of the Nazi regime, and they were the first human beings killed in gas chambers. The "technology" of gas chambers and "death plants" ("Todesfabriken") was first developed for and tested on the German people with disabilities. 

They were regarded as "unwertes Leben" ("unworthy life") and "Ballastexistenzen" ("ballast people"), "wertlose Menschenhülsen" ("worthless human bodies") and "nutzlose Esser" ("useless eaters"). At the end of the programme nearly everybody was in danger, who could not work, even elderly people and wounded soldiers were "euthanized".

Their names are still kept secret. Many of their families still feel "ashamed" today. They feared being viewed as having been "infected" by their disabled relatives ("erbkrank").

The victims of "Euthanasie" were legally not accepted as persecuted by the Nazis and thus did never receive any reparation. It took until the year 2007 (sic!) that the German Bundestag declared the "Erbgesundheitsgesetz" for illegal.

Most of the involved doctors continued their normal lives after the war. The victims were forgotten.

This piece goes therefore out to these forgotten victims of "Euthanasie", because "if we forget the victims, we murder them a second time."

Picture: Anna Lehnkering (2.8.1915 - 7.3.1940)
Anna was as a young girl sterilized and later on killed in the gas chamber of Grafeneck.
http://www.sigrid-falkenstein.de/euthanasie/anna.htm

This piece is part of the "Holocaust Remembrance Suite" for solo piano, which is an unique remembrance project, which has grown out of a collaboration between Stephan Beneking, composer based in Berlin, and pianist Hal Freedman (https://soundcloud.com/classical-soul-pianist) from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 

The innocence and beauty of pure piano classical music 
poses a stark contrast to the horrors of the Third Reich and the Holocaust.

All recordings of the "Holocaust Remembrance Suite" uploaded to SoundCloud you find here: https://soundcloud.com/stephan-beneking/sets/holocaust-remembrance-suite-1

The booklet with descriptions about the historical background and scores / sheet music can be downloaded for free here:
http://www.beneking.com/hrs

Each piece in the Holocaust Remembrance Suite contains a vital message about the war crimes and atrocities of the past. Unfortunately, the message is applicable to conditons that persist in our world today. It is our sincere hope to raise social awareness of these problems through this important project.

The Suite is accompanied by dramatic videos showing images, which further tell the story behind each individual piece:
http://www.youtube.com/user/steveberlin0815
http://www.youtube.com/user/hmfreedman

The 'Holocaust Remembrance Suite' can be downloaded from BandCamp and is available (for regular price) on iTunes and many other platforms. 
http://beneking.bandcamp.com/album/holocaust-remembrance-suite-charity-album
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/holocaust-remembrance-suite/id675961753
http://www.amazon.de/Holocaust-Remembrance-Suite-Charity-Album/dp/B00E0QQ52C/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374427542&sr=301-1

All proceeds will be donated to charities.


YouTube Video

The Dance of the Forgotten - Holocaust Remembrance Suite - played by Hal Freedman

A song from the secret garden

خدایا روشنایی بر دلوم دِه...

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The Secret Trio | Ara Dinkjian, Tamer Pinarbasi & Ismail Lumanovski

My Dark Place | The Secret Trio

گلرخ. سحر محمدی. گروه ماه بانو

"An intimate journey led by a minimalistic piano, looking for something that went missing."

Grab your copy of the Digital Deluxe Edition of The Last Days of Winter. The digital download includes:

▶ The official video of "Missing"
▶ "The Ordeal" - Bonus track
▶ High resolution version of the official and the alternate cd cover
▶ PDF with the liner notes of the album

:: credits ::

Composed, recorded and mastered by Francesco Berta.

Piano, celesta, guitars and programming: Francesco Berta 
Cello: Aríanna Hönnudóttir

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Bright Star

چون مرده شوم، خاک مرا گم سازيد, محمد معتمدی

Special Vik Variation for the Piano Day. Enjoy!

Vik - The Piano Day Variation

Intimacy

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The Peak Of Eternal Light

"فریاد سکوت" اثری از علی امینی

خواننده و آهنگساز: علی امینی
شعر:محمدعلی قویدل فرد
گیتار کلاسیک:ابراهیم علوی
ضبط،میکس و مسترینگ:بامداد امینی
طراح کاور : بابک اسماعیلی
با تشکر از آرش رئیسی

آهنگسازی این اثر بر اساس قطعه milonga اثری از jorge cardoso میباشد.

Ali Amini

Ali Amini : Faryade Sokoot l علی امینی : فریاد سکوت

Dear friends, I am delighted to present to you my new piano solo work: 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨. Quiet and composedly melancholic, 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨 was written with the bittersweet feeling of beauty and loneliness that accompanies each year's last weeks of December. Whether you're spending these days alone or with your loved ones, I hope my track will be able to bring you some quiet, peace and relief in these difficult times.

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Francesco Berta - Winter Song

Performed and Arranged by: Sobhdam Ensemble
Tar: Mohsen Beigi

Kamancheh, Vocal: Firoozeh Raeesdana

Oud: Shayan mirzaeii
Tonbak: Keivan Taheri

تنظيم و اجرا: گروه صبحدم
نوازنده‌ی تار و سرپرست: محسن بيگى
كمانچه و آواز: فيروزه رئيس دانا
عود: شايان ميرزايى
تمبك: كيوان طاهرى

Old Tasnif in Navaa | تصنیف قدیمی نوا

Francesco is an Italian born music composer, pianist and visual artist. 

In the first ten years of his career Francesco has been able to collect a substantial list of wide-ranging achievements: from conducting his own music in the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London to releasing an impressive number of albums as a solo artist; scoring movies and documentaries to directing award-winning short films.

Francesco’s work ethic is second to none, but his greatest asset is, undoubtedly, his unconditional love for film: having a bachelor’s degree in Film Technology and a burning desire to create stories that will stand the test of time.

Drawn to simplicity and driven by a fanatical attention to detail, Francesco creates music that blurs the lines between ambient, electronic and orchestral.

His instinctive use of acoustic instruments combines the elegance of traditional orchestration with complex, electronic landscapes, melding into emotive and exquisitely elegant hybrid-orchestral compositions.

Francesco’s music takes listeners on a passionate journey through images and emotions, creating stories and shaping memories.

نهنگی که در ساحل تقلا می‌کند
برای دیدن هیچکس نیامده است. 

The Peak Of Eternal Light

Francesco Berta

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