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From Jewish Life
- Max Bruch: Kol Nidrei
- Ernest Bloch:
- Sonata for violoncello & piano
- Prayer
- Supplication
- Jewish Song
- Meditation hébraïque
- Nigun from Baal Shem
- Leonard Bernstein: 2 Meditations, from 'Mass'
- Rodion Schedrin: Cardil
- Frejlachs Joachim Stutschewsky: Kinah
- Traditional Kletzmer songs:
- Dona, Dona
- Avreml, the pickpocket
- Chanukah Oy Chanukah
Paul Marleyn, cello
John Lenehan, piano
Signum SIGCD505 73mins
A winning idea, a well conceived and achieved compilation by Paul Marleyn, Canadian based cellist who provides his own notes. The soul of the cello is displayed in this warm, emotional music as well as that of the Jewish community, and the partnership of Marleyn & Lenehan is sympathetic and perfectly balanced.
Ernest Bloch is the mainstay and a first recording of his early sonata is a good foil to the more overtly Jewish pieces. Nigun goes well on the cello in Joseph Schuster's arrangement. The Kletzmer songs bring in lively contrast. The recording in Bristol, England March 1996 is impeccable, and presentation is to Signum's invariably high standard. It is a programme which we played straight through with great pleasure and should appeal widely. Why has it waited eight years for release?
Copyright © 2004, Peter Grahame Woolf
