Pablo Picasso's world-famous painting Guernica serves as a model for the contemporary works of composers from Spain and South America David del Puerto, Darwin Aquino, Ismael Garcia, Jana de Troyer and Sergio Assad.
The painting and the music instruct on the suffering caused by the Spanish Civil War, but also the hope for a timely end.
Works by Czech composers Hans Krása, Pavel Haas and Rudolf Karel form the second part of the concert, whose work came to an abrupt end with the occupation of the Czech Republic by Nazi Germany. Due to their Jewish origins or participation in the resistance against German rule, they were united by their fate of being murdered in the concentration camps Auschwitz and Theresienstadt.