Veronika Emily Pohl

Young Canadian virtuoso Bruce Liu displays the full range of his talent in a dazzling recital captured at the 2024 Ruhr Piano Festival.

At Dresden's Kreuzkirche, the city's Staatskapelle orchestra and bass René Pape, conducted by Martin Lehmann, will perform the world premiere of Sven Helbig's Requiem A. In response to current wars, Sven Helbig composed his Requiem A 80 years after the destruction of Dresden. This monumental work will receive its world premiere at Dresden's Holy Cross Church. The choir of this Lutheran church and the Sächsische Staatskapelle are joining forces for the event. Opera singer René Pape completes this high-caliber cast.

How do artists keep creating even in the darkest of times? How did the life-altering events of World War II shape our musical landscape up to today? This documentary uncovers the poignant stories of Mieczyslaw Weinberg and Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Two 20th-century composers of profound artistry, whose legacy is only recently being rediscovered after having been overshadowed in the aftermath of the Holocaust.