Reinhold Friedrich & Sebastian Küchler-Blessing - Oh Mensch! Gib Acht! (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Trumpet and organ - and yet conceivably far removed from the usual of this popular line-up: that is "O man, pay attention!" - not just an eye-catcher, but program, when the world-class trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich and the Essen cathedral organist Sebastian Küchler-Blessing contemporary works, which as A reaction to the horrors of the Third Reich, placed in dialogue with arrangements of romantic works: in addition to the eponymous slow movement from Mahler's Third, "Kol Nidrei" by Max Bruch and Brahms' "O Tod, wie bitter bist Du" can be heard. Zsigmond Szathmáry, who was highly esteemed by György Ligeti, wrote an “…ad memoriam…” about the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin especially for this production.