Hugo Weisgall: Rituals for Rosh Hashana "T'kiatot" (CD)

Hugo Weisgall (1912-1997)

BBC Singers, Orquestra Simfonica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya

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+Psalm of the Distant Dove; 4 Choral Etudes; A Garden Eastward

Artists:: Ovitsky, Martinez, Bryn-Julson, Okerlund, BBC Singers, Seattle SO, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Schwarz, Mester
Label:: Naxos
Year of recording ca.:: 1998-2000
Item number:: 8015318
UPC/EAN:: 0636943942529
Release date:: 18.7.2005
Series:: Milken Archive of American Jewish Music

*** Milken Archive of American Jewish Music

Hugo Weisgall, one of the 20th century's most individualistic and creative composers, united an early affinity for the musical aesthetics of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern with a lifelong commitment to and fascination with his Jewish heritage. His symphonic masterpiece, T'kiatot, is based on a central section of the traditional Rosh Hashana service in which the shofar (ram's horn) is sounded three times. The aweinspiring blasts of an actual shofar are set within a richly chromatic orchestral texture to brilliant effect. The song cycle Psalm of the Distant Dove, based on biblical and medieval Hebrew-Spanish poetry, celebrates the mystical, age-old relationship between God and His loving but suffering people Israel, represented by the image of a dove. Also inspired by the Golden Age of Spanish Jewry is A Garden Eastward, one of Weisgall's most rhapsodic vocal and orchestral conceptions, which the composer once called his "most beautiful work.""