American Classics - Introducing American Jewish Music

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Album Summary

Performers

• Simon Spiro (Cantor)
• Nell Snaidas (Soprano)
• Robert Bloch (Cantor)
• Yaron Windmüller (Baritone)
• Alberto Mizrahi (Cantor)
• Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (Organ)
• Hans-Peter Blochwitz (Tenor)
• Bruce Adler (Tenor)
• David Krakauer (Clarinet)
• Ana Martinez (Soprano)
• Robert Vernon (Viola)
• Benzion Miller (Cantor)
• Carol Meyer (Soprano)
• Richard Clement (Tenor)
• Robert Schulz (Percussion)
• Jim Guttman (Double Bass)
• Richard Stoltzman (Clarinet)
• Daniel Stepner (Violin)
• Fritz Weaver (Spoken Vocals)
• Tovah Feldshuh (Spoken Vocals)
• Barbara Feldon (Spoken Vocals)
• Lucy Shelton (Soprano)
• Eliot Fisk (Guitar)
• David Jolley (Horn)

Conductors

• Cullen, Joseph
• Gloyd, Russell
• Itai, Avner
• Jaffe, Elli
• Levi, Yoel
• Levin, Neil
• Papadopoulos, Marios
• Schwarz, Gerard
• Wirth, Gerald

Ensembles

• Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
• Baltimore Choral Arts Society
• Barcelona Symphony Orchestra
• BBC Singers
• Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
• Coro Hebraeico
• Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
• Dave Brubeck Trio
• Ernst Senff Choir
• Juilliard String Quartet
• New London Children's Choir
• Oxford Philomusica
• Prague Philharmonic Chorus
• Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
• Schola Hebraeica
• Vienna Boys' Choir
• Vienna Chamber Orchestra

Composers

• Dave Brubeck (1920 - )
• Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974)
• Schorr
• Ernst Toch (1887 - 1964)
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968)
• Traditional
• Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
• Julius Chajes (1910 - 1985)
• Joseph Achron (1886 - 1943)
• Lind
• Robert Stern (1934 - )
• Joseph Rumshinsky
• Anonymous
• Paul Schoenfield (1947 - )
• Abraham Kaplan
• Yehudi Wyner (1928 - )
• Bruce Adolphe (1955 - )
• Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950)

Notes & Reviews:

The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music is a vast recorded panorama of the rich body of Jewish music, both sacred and secular, that has developed over the course of American history. This recording features nineteen tracks representing the broad scope of the Archive recordings.

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Brubeck, Dave : Gates of Justice :: 3rd movement, Open the Gates

• Performer: Alberto Mizrahi (Cantor)
• Ensemble: Dave Brubeck Trio
• Running Time: 2 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1970
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Bernstein, Leonard : Hashkiveniu

• Performers: Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (Organ); Hans-Peter Blochwitz (Tenor)
• Conductor: Avner Itai
• Ensemble: BBC Singers
• Running Time: 5 min. 2 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1945
• Language: Hebrew
• Studio/Live: Studio

Anonymous : Hudl Mitn Shtrudl

• Performers: Bruce Adler (Tenor); David Krakauer (Clarinet)
• Conductor: Elli Jaffe
• Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 2 min. 56 sec.
• Language: Yiddish
• Studio/Live: Studio

Milhaud, Darius : Études for String Quartet, Op. 442 :: III - Modéré

• Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet
• Running Time: 1 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1973
• Studio/Live: Studio

Chajes, Julius : Old Jerusalem

• Performer: Ana Martinez (Soprano)
• Conductor: Elli Jaffe
• Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 4 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Language: Hebrew
• Studio/Live: Studio

Schoenfield, Paul : Concerto for Viola

• Performer: Robert Vernon (Viola)
• Conductor: Yoel Levi
• Ensemble: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 5 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Concerto
• Studio/Live: Studio

Schorr, : Sheyibone beis hamikdosh

• Performer: Benzion Miller (Cantor)
• Conductor: Marios Papadopoulos
• Ensemble: Oxford Philomusica
• Running Time: 9 min. 1 sec.
• Language: Hebrew
• Studio/Live: Studio

Achron, Joseph : Quartet for Cello, Trumpet, Horn and Piano "Golem"

• Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
• Ensemble: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
• Running Time: 2 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Chamber Music
• Written: 1931
• Studio/Live: Studio

Kaplan, Abraham : Psalms of Abraham

• Conductor: Gerald Wirth
• Ensemble: Vienna Chamber Orchestra
• Running Time: 1 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1980
• Language: Hebrew
• Studio/Live: Studio

Toch, Ernst : Cantata of Bitter Herbs, Op. 65

• Performers: Carol Meyer (Soprano); Richard Clement (Tenor)
• Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
• Ensemble: Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
• Running Time: 6 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1938
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Lind, : El Melekh Yoshev

• Performer: Alberto Mizrahi (Cantor)
• Conductor: Neil Levin
• Ensemble: Schola Hebraeica
• Running Time: 5 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Language: Hebrew
• Studio/Live: Studio

Wyner, Yehudi : The Mirror

• Performers: Robert Schulz (Percussion); Jim Guttman (Double Bass); Richard Stoltzman (Clarinet); Daniel Stepner (Violin)
• Running Time: 1 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1972-1973
• Studio/Live: Studio

Milhaud, Darius : Service sacré, Op. 279 :: L'Kha Dodi

• Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
• Ensemble: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
• Running Time: 1 min. 47 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1947
• Language: Hebrew
• Studio/Live: Studio

Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario : Genesis Suite :: Noah's Ark

• Performers: Fritz Weaver (Spoken Vocals); Tovah Feldshuh (Spoken Vocals); Barbara Feldon (Spoken Vocals)
• Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
• Ensemble: Ernst Senff Choir
• Running Time: 5 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1944
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Stern, Robert : Adon Olam

• Conductor: Joseph Cullen
• Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
• Running Time: 3 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1990
• Language: Ladino
• Studio/Live: Studio

Adolphe, Bruce : Ladino Songs of Love and Suffering :: no 4, Camini Por Altas Torres

• Performers: Lucy Shelton (Soprano); Eliot Fisk (Guitar); David Jolley (Horn)
• Running Time: 2 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Vocal
• Language: Yiddish
• Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional : Sheva B'rakhot

• Performer: Simon Spiro (Cantor)
• Conductor: Neil Levin
• Ensemble: Coro Hebraeico
• Running Time: 6 min. 44 sec.
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Rumshinsky, Joseph : Mayn Goldele

• Performers: Nell Snaidas (Soprano); Robert Bloch (Cantor)
• Conductor: Elli Jaffe
• Ensemble: Vienna Chamber Orchestra
• Running Time: 3 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1923
• Language: Yiddish
• Studio/Live: Studio

Weill, Kurt : The Eternal Road :: Moses receives the commandments

• Performer: Yaron Windmüller (Baritone)
• Conductor: Gerard Schwarz
• Ensemble: Prague Philharmonic Chorus
• Running Time: 5 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1935-1936
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio