Berger: Miracles and Mud / Sink or Swim / Doubles / for Amos

Featuring

Geoff Nuttall
Owen Dalby
Lesley Robertson
Christopher Costanza
Livia Sohn
St. Lawrence String Quartet

Jonathan Berger

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Composition History

Jonathan Berger's piece Miracles and Mud alludes to fragments of two folk songs, one Palestinian and one Israeli, both about an emotional bond to the land.

Composer Biography

In addition to composing, Jonathan Berger is an active researcher with over sixty publications in various fields related to music, science, and technology.

Composition History

Eli Eli, a piece by Jonathan Berger, is based on David Zehavi's setting of a poem by Hanah Senesh, a young émigré who died during World War II while rescuing Jews from Hungary.

Performer Biography

Violinist Livia Sohn won First Prize and the Audience Prize in the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in 1989 at the age of twelve.

Composer Biography

Jonathan Berger, the composer, is considered one of the foremost living composers and has received commissions and awards from organizations like the National Endowment for the Arts.

Compositional Technique

All the works on this recording by Jonathan Berger incorporate references to other music, ranging from overt quotations to vague allusions.

Composition History

The title of Jonathan Berger's piece Miracles and Mud is a pun on two types of coffee, European instant coffee ('nes' or 'miracle' in Hebrew) and Arabic coffee ('botz' or 'mud').