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I'm Adam Gourb and you're listening to the BBC World Service on Holocaust Memorial Day.

It's taken months to get to this point.

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra is about to start rehearsing a piece of music,

written in a concentration camp during World War II. Adam Gore, who most of you I have one though, who runs the competition who runs the

composition department of the Royal Northern he's been out to it

to lead to the scores. So I thought it be helpful maybe if Adam just said a few

words at the top Adam Gold. Thank you. What you're going to be playing, I saw as a sort of handwritten fragment of one movement,

then a fragment of another movement.

And what came across is the sort of intensity and how the composer knew exactly what he wanted.

There's a certain sort of white heat of inspiration that I'm sure you're going to

recapture wonderfully. So thank you. Beyond each page each sheet sheet, each sketch, each fragment of this music, there is a great history,

but not history of the Second World War, history of the humanity.

Francesco Lottoro is a pianist and music teacher from Italy who

for the last three decades has been on a mission to collect and preserve the lost

music of the concentration camps. We discover a lot of men that in spite of sufferings cruelty, torture,

created a lot of jewels.

In December, I travelled to the city of Balleta in southern Italy

to meet Francesco and to bring back a piece of music which the orchestra can bring to life.

I've arrived at Signior Francesco Lautoro's house and I can hear the piano being played quite beautifully I think

something

something rather Eastern European sounding. I think I need to go and interrupt him now.

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