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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968)
Choral Music
Performers:
Ana Maria Martinez - soprano
Ted Christopher - baritone
Simon Spiro - tenor
Jeremy Cohen - tenor
Rodney Mariner - reader
Hugh Potton - organ
Barbara Harbach - organ
McNeil Robinson - organ
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner - conductor
London Chorus
Ronald Corp - conductor
New York Cantorial Choir
Neil Levin - conductor
"This is one of the purest and most touching compositions you have ever written," wrote fellow emigre composer Ernst Toch to his friend Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco after hearing his cantata Naomi and Ruth. For Castelnuovo-Tedesco, America offered new opportunities to deepen and develop his Italian musical heritage and his Jewish spiritulaity. He dreamed that he might hear his Sacred Service "once in the synagogues of Florence," but instead this major work was premiered at New York's Park Avenue Synagogue, establishing a long tradition of contemporary sacred Jewish music commissioned from leading composers.
Tracklist:
01. Naomi and Ruth, Op. 137
Sacred Service for the Sabbath Eve, Op. 122
02. Ma Tova
03. L'kha Dodi
04. Tov L'hodot
05. Bar'khu
06. Sh'ma Yisra'el
07. Mi Khamokha
08. Hashkivenu
09. V'sham'ru
10. May the Words
11. Kiddush
12. Let Us Adore
13. Va'anahnu
14. On That Day
15. Benediction
16. Adon Olam
Prayers My Grandfather Wrote (excerpts)
17. I. Tema
18. II. Hashkivenu
19. V. Ra'u Banim
Memorial Service for the Departed (excerpts)
20. I. Adonai Ma Adam
21. III. Yoshev B'seter
22. IV. Shiviti
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