Nigunim: Hebrew Melodies
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Label: Canary Classics
Cat No: CCL10
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 5th July 2019
Contents
Works
Hebrew Melody, op.33Hebrew Pieces (2), op.35
Baal Shem
Danse hebraique
Violin Sonata no.3 'Nigunim'
Schindler's List (film score)
Artists
Gil Shaham (violin)Orli Shaham (piano)
Works
Hebrew Melody, op.33Hebrew Pieces (2), op.35
Baal Shem
Danse hebraique
Violin Sonata no.3 'Nigunim'
Schindler's List (film score)
Artists
Gil Shaham (violin)Orli Shaham (piano)
About
This release includes masterpieces by Ernest Bloch, Joseph Achron and Leo Zeitlin. They all started their musical lives as child prodigy violinists, as their idiomatic writing for the violin might suggest.
The centrepiece of the disc comes from the work sharing the album’s title Nigunim. Commissioned by Gil and Orli from Israeli composer Avner Dorman, it shares the universal appeal of the wordless melodies on which it was named. Unlike Bloch, Achron and Zeitlin, Dorman is a composer/pianist and this can be clearly heard in the equality he gives the piano in this engaging 4 movement violin sonata. “He has created a masterpiece and in my experience everybody who hears the piece falls in love with it – they’re electrified by it”, Gil explains. Indeed, when he performed the work, San Diego Today affirmed that “it was hard to miss [its] visceral excitement and structural elegance”, the Boston Globe admiring the “uncommonly intriguing sounds”.
John Williams is the only composer here who does not share the Shahams’ Jewish heritage, but his mastery in the score Schindler’s List is such that, according to Orli, in this piece “he has absolutely captured the feeling of ghetto life and what that looked like and how people interacted … the pieces included here are so authentic that they are a part of this tradition”.
Orli and Gil’s musical partnership is a lifelong one. The violinist recounts: “Orli and I used to play together at home when we were kids, but we didn’t give concerts together until we were in our 20s”. In addition to countless concert appearances, in the recording studio their collaborations include two previous Canary Classics recordings, The Prokofiev Album (CC02) and Mozart in Paris (CC01) and Dvorák for Two (Deutsche Grammophon).
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