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The Great Crimes premieres at the Hay Festival 2014

2 June 2014

Hay Festival

At this year鈥檚 Hay Festival, 果冻影院 Laws Professor of Law, Philippe Sands, joined opera singer Laurent Naouri and pianist Guillaume de Chassy to present a drama about the origins of modern justice in images, words and music.

Speaking to Claire Armistead on the Guardian Books Podcast, Philippe discusses聽The Great Crimes, a piece of 鈥榤usical archaeology鈥, which tells the story of prosecutors at the Nuremburg Trials, Hersch Lauterpacht and Rafael Lemkin, and defendant, governor general of occupied Poland, Hans Frank, through their shared passion for classical music.

Describing the project, Philippe said: 鈥渨hat鈥檚 very striking about the music is that it underpins an extraordinarily powerful story 鈥 in which the music amplifies the words, and the words provide an explanation of the music.鈥

The Great Crimes premiered on 25 May at the Hay Festival 2014, and will be performed at the Southbank Centre in London on 29 and 30 November, and in Stockholm/Interplay on the 14 July 2015.

Listen to Philippe on the聽聽(starts at 22:24)

搁别补诲听聽by Philippe Sands in the聽Guardian

奥补迟肠丑听聽at the Hay Festival 2014 (拢)