Two days before the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism, the Kammermusikfreunde invite you to an extraordinary concert evening dedicated to ostracised music. The first part of the concert will focus on works by Polish-Jewish composers whose work was persecuted under the Nazi regime and suppressed from musical life for a long time. The second part of the evening opens up new perspectives: Three German-Jewish cantors and a shofar (reverberating trombone) player present Jewish liturgical music - from traditional chants from Eastern Europe to compositions from the German and American liberal synagogue. The shofar, one of the oldest surviving instruments in the Bible and still an integral part of Jewish services today, lends the concert a special spiritual depth.
The programme is complemented by works that symbolise the Christian-Jewish musical dialogue. One highlight is the performance of Max Bruch’s famous ‘Kol Nidre’ in a rarely heard version for shofar and piano.
PERFORMERS
Kantorin Sveta Kundish
Rabbinerin und Kantorin Alina Treiger
Kantorin Aviv Weinberg
Linus Roth violin
Bar Zemach horn, shofar
Jascha Nemtsov piano, moderation
PROGRAM
»From the shofar to the violin – the fascination of Jewish music«
Works by Mieczysław Weinberg, Lev Abeliovich and Eta Tyrmand, as well as synagogue music from the Old and New Worlds with compositions by Max Bruch, Maurice Ravel, Arno Nadel, Max Janowski, Eliyahu Schleifer, Alisa Pomerantz-Boro and others
