5902547018775

Weiss: Psalms And Hymns

Jakub Stefek, Barbara Halec, Isidoro Abramowicz, Chamber Choir of the Academy of Art in Szczecin

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Format: CD

Cat No: DUX1877

Release Date:  03 November 2023

Label:  DUX Recording Producers

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5902547018775

Genres:  Classical  Solo Instrumental  

  • Description

    This album is a unique recording, presenting world premiere recordings of Jacob Weiss' music, cantor of one of the Warsaw synagogues in the 19th century. Weiss was both a composer, creating music in the spirit of Salomon Sulzer's reform, and an active cantor; a performer of psalms and hymns accompanying the daily prayer of Jews.



    The synagogue with which he was most associated was the synagogue on Danilowiczowska Street in Warsaw's Praga district. It was probably also there, on the same street, that Weiss had the opportunity to familiarize himself with music of the Polish composer Stanislaw Moniuszko.



    Moniuszko's influence on Weiss' compositional idiom is significant; moreover, this music shares characteristics with Reformed synagogue music, which, breaking previous restrictions resulting from religious regulations, allowed instruments to speak, including the organ, which we will hear on the album.



    In addition to Weiss' compositions, we will also hear music of Joseph Sulzer, the youngest son of the great reformer of 19th-century synagogue music – Salomon.



    The organ is played by Jakub Stefek, an artist cooperating with the Jewish Community of Berlin, author of a publication on Jewish organ music; the vocal parts are performed by Isidoro Abramowicz, music director of the Pestalozzistrasse Synagogue in Berlin, one of the most important synagogue music performers in the world.


  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Jacob Weiss: Psalm 66, Boze, zmiluk sie nad nami
      • 2. Joseph Sulzer Praludium No. 1, Op. 10
      • 3. Weiss: Psalm 93, Gott Regiert
      • 4. Psalm 137: Ponad rzekami babilonskiej ziemi
      • 5. Niech sie ozwa dzwieczne tony
      • 6. Sulzer: Praludium No. 2, Op. 10
      • 7. Weiss: Psalm 114, Bezes jisroel mimizrajim
      • 8. En komocho
      • 9. Sulzer: Praludium No. 3, Op. 10
      • 10. Weiss: Wie gross ist
      • 11. Des lebend'gen gottes ruhm
      • 12. Sulzer: Praludium No. 4, Op. 10
      • 13. Weiss: Nikt nie jest jak nasz bog
      • 14. Adon olom