Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [1756 – 1791]
Piano Quartet in G minor, KV 478
I. Allegro
II. Andante
III. Rondo. Allegro moderato

Robert Gerhard [1896 – 1970]
from ‘Pandora Suite’
‘The Quest’ and ‘The Monster‘s Drill’

Franz Schubert [1797 – 1828]
‘Death and the Maiden’
String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, Op. posth., D 810
I. Allegro
II. Andante con moto
III. Scherzo
IV. Presto

In the proven and moving mixture of word, image and sound, musicians of the orchestra remember former employees of the opera who were expelled by the Nazis from 1933 onwards. Between movements, Margarita Broich reads from personal documents of Rudolf Bing (head of the artistic administration office), Edgar Frank (principal dancer), Nelly Hirth (dancer) and Else Liebert (rehearsal pianist).