Hello, welcome to Shortcuts, the podcast version. I'm Josie Long, and today's episode is about hidden creative works or lost and then thankfully refound creative works. And I hope you enjoy it.

This is shortcuts.

There's a sound in the feeling of alone.

Brief encounters.

I think there are quite a lot of those composers have disappeared on history.

True stories.

Do you need to do music as you need to live to eat?

Radio Adventures A bond with stillness.

And found sound.

And when finally he married her, he admitted to her that he couldn't stand the sound of Ireland.

Today, silent symphonies.

Francesco Latoro is an Italian pianist, conductor and musicologist.

For over 30 years he's been collecting and recording music written by prisoners in concentration camps.

As Francesco says, all of the world was full of camps during the Second World War. When even one people is in camps in captivity, even for one day, he as a musician, start to create music. Because you are a musician and you need to do music.

And you need to live, to eat, to do everything.

Officially, you are in camp as a Deporte, but really you can do music,

you can found ensembles, orchestras,

seven orchestras between Auschwitz, one, two, a three.

Ten orchestras in Terezstadt.

And of course, a lot of string quarters, trios, bands, combos from Roma gypsies in Thailand during the building of Burma, Thailand, that railway,

all the deportees, British, Australian, American, were forced to work 18 hours every day

after they

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