Music from the Ghetto: Ailenberg, Braun, Bruch, Shalit

Featuring

Christopher Warren-Green
Simca Heled
Jack Liebeck
London Chamber Orchestra
Max Bruch
Daniel Shalit

Yehezkel Braun
Leib Ailenberg

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Composer's Artistic Vision

The composers on this album integrate Jewish musical traditions into Western European musical structures, expressing emotions like contemplation, mourning, hope, and the trauma of persecution and exile.

Composer Biography

Max Bruch, a 19th-century German composer, was fascinated by non-German music, including Celtic, Scottish, Swedish, Russian, and Hebrew folk material, despite his conservative German musical tradition.

Composition History

Max Bruch's Kol Nidrei, subtitled an Adagio on two Hebrew melodies for cello and orchestra, was inspired by his association with Cantor Abraham Lichtenstein, who introduced Bruch to the Kol Nidrei melody.

Performer Biography

Simca Heled, the cellist and conductor on this album, was nominated Leader of the Cello Section of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra by Zubin Mehta at age 24, making him the youngest to hold that position.

Performer Biography

Jack Liebeck, the violinist on this album, is the Royal Academy of Music's first Émile Sauret Professor of Violin and the Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music.

Recording & Production

The London Chamber Orchestra, founded in 1921, is the UK's first professional chamber orchestra and has commissioned and performed UK premieres by composers such as Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams, and Prokofiev.