℗ 2019 Toccata Classics
| Released | January 4, 2019 |
| Duration | 1h 07m 48s |
| Record Label | Toccata Classics |
| Catalogue No. | TOCC0507 |
| Genre | Classical (Art Song) |
Ronald Corp: Letters from Lony
Sarah Pring, Chilingirian Quartet, Andrew Brownell
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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Letters from Lony
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1.1
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No. 1, 13 September 1939
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
1:53 | |||
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1.2
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No. 1a, Lullaby
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
1:30 | |||
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1.3
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No. 2, 28 September 1939
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
2:29 | |||
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1.4
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No. 3, 16 November 1939
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
2:22 | |||
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1.5
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No. 4, 3 December 1939
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
1:36 | |||
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1.6
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No. 5, 18 December 1939
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
3:00 | |||
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1.7
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No. 5a, Interlude
Ronald Corp; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
1:31 | |||
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1.8
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No. 6, 11 February 1940
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
6:25 | |||
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1.9
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No. 7, 5 May 1940 to Annemarie
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
3:43 | |||
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1.10
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No. 7a, Interlude. 10 May 1940
Ronald Corp; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
1:19 | |||
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1.11
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No. 8, 26 September 1940 to the Family
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
2:20 | |||
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1.12
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No. 9, Undated, 1940 to the Family
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
1:37 | |||
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1.13
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No. 10, Undated, Probably About 9 November 1940 to Annemarie
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
3:25 | |||
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1.14
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No. 11, Undated, Probably Later in November 1940 to the Family
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
2:05 | |||
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1.15
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No. 11a, Interlude
Ronald Corp; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
2:59 | |||
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1.16
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No. 12, 11 February 1941 to Peter
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
5:43 | |||
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1.17
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No. 13, Unknown Date, Believed to be 7 December 1940 to Annemarie
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
2:22 | |||
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1.18
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No. 14, 1 October 1941 to Bachmann
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
5:43 | |||
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1.19
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No. 15, 6 January 1942 Card Addressed to Hans from Bachmann in Lony’s Name
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
2:14 | |||
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1.20
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No. 15a, Interlude
Ronald Corp; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
3:17 | |||
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1.21
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No. 16, 30 December 1943, from Westerbork Camp to Josef Blum
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
2:58 | |||
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1.22
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No. 17, 23 February 1944, from Westerbork Camp to Josef Blum
Ronald Corp; Sarah Pring; Chilingirian Quartet; Andrew Brownell |
7:17 | |||
Leonie (‘Lony’) Fraenkel was a German-Jewish exile from Nazi Berlin who set up the Café de Paris on Beethovenstraat in Amsterdam in 1939. In late 1939 she sent a card to greet Peter, her first grandson, newly born in safety in England, and over the next three years she sent a series of letters to Peter and his mother, Lony’s daughter. In 1943 she was deported first to the Westerbork transit camp, and then to Theresienstadt and, finally, in October 1944 to Auschwitz, where she was gassed two days after her arrival. Many years later, that grandson, Peter, now a grandfather himself, discovered Lony’s letters, translated them and brought them to the attention of the composer Ronald Corp. Ronald Corp has set Lony’s letters in a series of lyrical arioso recitatives for mezzo-soprano, string quartet, and piano, lasting just over an hour. The cycle was first heard at the Proms in St. Jude’s in Hampstead Garden Suburb, North London, in 2017, and now Toccata Classics is releasing its first recording.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Toccata Classics Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -7.37 -20.25 to -2.17 | -31.17 -39.81 to -25.01 | -27.17 -36.30 to -21.20 | 14 11 to 17 | |
| 1 | No. 1, 13 September 1939 | -7.67 | -35.75 | -31.6 | 15 |
| 2 | No. 1a, Lullaby | -17.53 | -37.81 | -34.4 | 11 |
| 3 | No. 2, 28 September 1939 | -5.56 | -28.04 | -24.6 | 14 |
| 4 | No. 3, 16 November 1939 | -5.36 | -28.39 | -24.8 | 14 |
| 5 | No. 4, 3 December 1939 | -6.74 | -28.83 | -25.0 | 14 |
| 6 | No. 5, 18 December 1939 | -3.83 | -31.40 | -27.3 | 17 |
| 7 | No. 5a, Interlude | -4.81 | -25.01 | -21.3 | 12 |
| 8 | No. 6, 11 February 1940 | -4.26 | -31.20 | -26.9 | 16 |
| 9 | No. 7, 5 May 1940 to Annemarie | -9.07 | -31.10 | -26.8 | 14 |
| 10 | No. 7a, Interlude. 10 May 1940 | -3.48 | -25.17 | -22.2 | 13 |
| 11 | No. 8, 26 September 1940 to the Family | -6.89 | -28.90 | -25.0 | 14 |
| 12 | No. 9, Undated, 1940 to the Family | -2.17 | -25.61 | -21.2 | 13 |
| 13 | No. 10, Undated, Probably About 9 November 1940 to Annemarie | -5.58 | -29.68 | -25.5 | 15 |
| 14 | No. 11, Undated, Probably Later in November 1940 to the Family | -8.41 | -35.88 | -31.4 | 15 |
| 15 | No. 11a, Interlude | -18.40 | -37.23 | -33.9 | 11 |
| 16 | No. 12, 11 February 1941 to Peter | -4.65 | -30.60 | -26.7 | 16 |
| 17 | No. 13, Unknown Date, Believed to be 7 December 1940 to Annemarie | -3.25 | -25.92 | -21.6 | 14 |
| 18 | No. 14, 1 October 1941 to Bachmann | -2.26 | -30.10 | -26.4 | 15 |
| 19 | No. 15, 6 January 1942 Card Addressed to Hans from Bachmann in Lony’s Name | -9.26 | -33.88 | -29.2 | 15 |
| 20 | No. 15a, Interlude | -20.25 | -39.81 | -36.3 | 11 |
| 21 | No. 16, 30 December 1943, from Westerbork Camp to Josef Blum | -8.12 | -32.59 | -28.8 | 15 |
| 22 | No. 17, 23 February 1944, from Westerbork Camp to Josef Blum | -4.60 | -32.79 | -26.9 | 16 |