Jakub Stefek, Barbara Halec, Isidoro Abramowicz, Chamber Choir of the Academy of Art in Szczecin
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
Collegium Cantorum Choir, Janusz Siadlak
Jacek Szponarski, Szymon Mechlinski, Jolanta Pszczolkowsla-Pawlik
Jan Milosz Zarzycki, Witold Lutoslowski Lomza Chamber Philharmonic
Pawel Przytocki, Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra, Wojciech Niedziolka
Tomasz Ritter, Tansman Trio
Messages Quartet, Piotr Lato
Malgorzata Wasiucionek-Potera, Andrzej Karalow
Maciej Tworek, Jerzy Semkow Polish Sinfonia luventus Orchestra
Celeste-Marie Roy
Yarno Missiaen
Mishka Rushdie Momen
Sergey Tanin
David Jalbert
David Jacques
Donald Berman
Michael Kaykov
