Sonia Wieder-Atherton: Chants Juifs (Jewish Songs)
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Label: Naive
Cat No: V5226
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 13th September 2010
Contents
Works
Baal ShemChanson hebraique
Chanson
Chant hassidique
Conversation
Danse
Elegie
Incertitude
Kaddish
Kol Nidre
Priere
Psaume
Question
Chemah
Nigun
Psalmodie
Artists
Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello)Daria Hovora (piano)
Sinfonia Varsovia
Conductor
Janos FurstWorks
Baal ShemChanson hebraique
Chanson
Chant hassidique
Conversation
Danse
Elegie
Incertitude
Kaddish
Kol Nidre
Priere
Psaume
Question
Chemah
Nigun
Psalmodie
Artists
Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello)Daria Hovora (piano)
Sinfonia Varsovia
Conductor
Janos FurstAbout
Despite its success in France some years ago on another label, this recording has never been released in several countries. Its reissue in an enhanced form (there’s also an extra traditional Jewish song, Psaume) comes as part of Wieder-Atherton’s exclusive Naïve contract. The project is very much the cellist’s: she researched the sources that gave birth to these prayers and chants. She and pianist Daria Horova transcribed, harmonized and often reconstructed these melodies – but in a way that respected the original. Then she turned to composer Jean-François Zygel, asking that he imprint his own vision of certain of these sources and that he draw inspiration from them in composing three more pieces.
Years later, they decided to add to the cycle Bloch’s magnificent compositions, inspired - as was a great part of his work - by ancient Hebraic music: The Nigun (improvisation) written in 1923, a transcription of one of his works for violin and piano taken from the Baal Shem cycle; the three-part Jewish Life; and Meditation Hébraïque, both written in 1924.
The latest addition is Maurice Ravel’s Hebraic song, warmly accompanied by Sinfonia Varsovia directed by János Fürst, the charismatic conductor who died in 2007. The Hebraic song is the last of a cycle of seven popular songs dating from 1910.
Track Listing:
1. Traditional: Kol Nidre
2. Traditional: Question
3. Traditional: Psaume
4. Traditional: Conversation
5. Jean-François Zygel: Nigun
6. Traditional: Prière
7. Traditional: Chanson
8. Traditional: Kaddish
9. Jean-François Zygel: Psalmodie
10. Jean-François Zygel: Chemah
11. Traditional: Incertitude
12. Traditional: Danse
13. Traditional: Chant hassidique
14. Traditional: Élégie
15. Maurice Ravel: Chant populaire No.4 (Chanson hébraïque)
16. Ernest Bloch: Nigun (Baal Shem)
17. Ernest Bloch: Prière (Jewish Life No.1)
18. Ernest Bloch: Supplication (Jewish Life No.2)
19. Ernest Bloch: Jewish Song (Jewish Life No.3)
20. Ernest Bloch: Méditation hébraïque
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