This live recording is conceived as an act of remembrance and reconciliation, dedicated to the victims of Lidice and framed by a broader commitment to peace. Bartók’s Divertimento unfolds with a surprising radiance: despite the troubled historical moment of its creation, the music breathes warmth, folk-inflected vitality, and a classical sense of balance, revealing the composer’s ability to transcend external turmoil through sound. Martinů’s Concertino complements this spirit with lightness and poise, its neo-classical clarity and rhythmic buoyancy shaped by a cosmopolitan outlook formed between Prague and Paris. The programme reaches its emotional core in Doráti’s late vocal works, where music becomes an ethical statement. Pater noster speaks with inward simplicity, while Jesus or Barabbas? confronts the listener with a stark moral choice, its dramatic intensity underscoring Doráti’s lifelong belief in music as a force for conscience and peace. Across the recording, the performances balance precision with expressive restraint, allowing the music’s humane message to emerge naturally, without rhetoric—an appeal not to spectacle, but to reflection.