Title:
Songs of fate [CD]
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Publication Date:
2024
Publication Information:
München : ECM Records GmbH, [2024]
℗2024.
Physical Description:
1 audio disc (57 min., 24 sec.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
General Note:
Arrangements by Veniamin Basner (Jewish songs) and Andrei Pushkarev (Nocturne, Kujawiak).
Title from disc label.
Compact disc.
Program notes in German by Wolfgang Sandner with English translation by Friedrich Kunzmann inserted in container. Additional note by Gidon Kremer in English.
Program notes in German and English, on insert.
Performers:
Gidon Kremer, violin ; Vida Miknevičiūtė, soprano ; Magdalena Ceple, cello ; Andrei Pushkarev, vibraphone ; Kremerata Baltica.
Contents:
This too shall pass : for violin, violoncello, vibraphone and string orchestra / Raminta Šerkšnytė (8:18) -- Chamber symphony "The star of David." David's lamentation : for soprano and orchestra. Kaddish-prelude : for violin and percussion ; Penultimate Kaddish : for soprano and orchestra ; Chamber symphony : "The star of David." Postlude : the luminous lament : for soprano and violin / Giedrius Kuprevičius (2:45; 3:06; 7:01; 4:26) -- Nocturne : for violin and string orchestra ; Aria : op. 9 : for string quartet ; Jewish songs : op. 13. Viglid = Cradle song ; Oyfn grinem bergele = On the green mountain ; Der yesoymes brivete = The orphan's letter. Kujawiak : for violin and orchestra / Mieczysław Weinberg (3:09; 3:46; 2:01; 1:50; 5:29 ; 3:17) -- Lignum : for string orchestra, svilpaunieki, chimes and wind chimes / Jēkabs Jančevskis (12:16).
Language:
English
Additional Language:
Sung in Aramaic (Penultimate Kaddish), Hebrew (David's lamentation), Yiddish (Jewish songs), and vocalise (Postlude).
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