"Rare, new and rediscovered American classics"--Container. "Milken Archive, American Jewish Music." Performers include: BBC Singers ; Dave Brubeck Trio ; Czech Philharmonic ; Tovah Feldshuh ; Eliot Fisk ; Juilliard String Quartet ; David Krakauer ; Yoel Levi ; Ana Maria Martinez ; Benzion Miller ; Alberto Mizrahi ; Elmar Oliveira ; Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin ; Gerard Schwarz ; Simon Spiro ; Richard Stoltzman ; Robert Vernon ; Vienna Boys Choir ; Fritz Weaver ; additional performers. Recorded between 1998-2003 in Baltimore; London; Barcelona; New York City; Berlin; Prague; Vienna; Worcester, Mass. Some selections previously released (2003); the remaining selections to be released on future Naxos recordings. Compact disc. Program notes and English lyrics (19 pages : illustrations, ports.) inserted in container.
Contents:
Moses / (5:15). Open the gates : excerpt / Kurt Weill (2:29) -- Hashkiveinu / Leonard Bernstein (5:02) -- Hudl mitn shtrudl / anon. (2:56) -- Études on liturgical themes. III, Modéré / Darius Milhaud (1:52) -- Old Jerusalem : Psalm 134 / Julius Chajes (4:45) -- Viola concerto. III, King David dancing before the ark / Paul Schoenfield (5:42) -- Sheyibbaneh beit Hamikdash / Israel Schorr (9:01) -- The golem : suite. IV, Dance of the phantom spirits / Joseph Achron (2:29) -- Psalms of Abraham. VII, Hinei ma tov : (Psalm 133:1) / Abraham Kaplan (1:59) -- The bitter herbs : op. 65. VII, Psalm 126 / Ernst Toch / (6:48) -- El melekh yoshev / Joshua Lind (5:52) -- The mirror : Suite from the play. I, Demon's welcome / Yehudi Wyner (1:15) -- Service sacré. I, L'kha dodi / Darius Milhaud (1:47) -- Genesis suite. The flood : excerpt / Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (5:18) -- Adon Olam / Robert Stern (3:15) -- Ladino songs of love and suffering. IV, Camini por atlas torres = I walked among high towers / Bruce Adolphe (2:14) -- Sheva B'rakhot : (excerpt) / Sholom Kalib and Meyer Machtenberg ; arr. Simon Spiro (6:44) -- Mayn Goldele = My Goldele / Joseph Rumshinsky (3:36) -- The eternal road. Act II, scene 20 : Moses / Kurt Weill (5:15).
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