Krein / Krakauer / Lipman: Chamber Music - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Chamber Music
Artist: Krein / Krakauer / Lipman
Label: Toccata
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5060113445469
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019-10-04
Number of Discs: 1

Alexander Krein (1883-1951) was a member of a dynasty of Jewish musicians active in both Imperial and Soviet Russia. His compositions reveal the confluence of several strands of musical history: his Russian background, the transition from late Romanticism to early modernism - where the influence of Skryabin is readily audible - and, particularly in the works on this album, the Jewish folk-heritage, with it's emotionally powerful blend of high spirits and melancholy. In this fifth volume in the Toccata Classics series 'Russian Jewish Classics', the cellist Aron Zelkowicz, pianist Rodrigo Ojeda and the Musicians of the Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival are joined by two stars of the musical firmament, the violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, and clarinetist David Krakauer, who unites classical and klezmer.

Tracks:
1.1 Jewish Sketches No. 1, Op. 12, for clarinet and string quartet~I. Lento - Più mosso
1.2 Jewish Sketches No. 1, Op. 12, for clarinet and string quartet~II. Andante con anima - Allegretto grazioso
1.3 Jewish Sketches No. 1, Op. 12, for clarinet and string quartet~III. Allegro moderato
1.4 Lyric Fragment, Op. 1a, for four cellos
1.5 Caprice hébraîque, Op. 24, for violin and piano
1.6 Elegy, Op. 16, for violin, cello and piano
1.7 Aria, Op. 41, for violin and piano
1.8 Three Ornaments, Op. 42, for violin and piano~No. 1 Andante
1.9 Three Ornaments, Op. 42, for violin and piano~No. 2 Andante
1.10 Three Ornaments, Op. 42, for violin and piano~No. 3 Andante
1.11 Jewish Melody, Op. 43, for cello and piano
1.12 Dances, Op. 50, for piano~No. 2 Andantino non troppo
1.13 Dances, Op. 50, for piano~No. 4 Allegretto
1.14 Dances, Op. 50, for piano~No. 5 Allegro non troppo
1.15 Dances, Op. 50, for piano~No. 6 Andantino grazioso
1.16 Dances, Op. 50, for piano~No. 10 Vivo
1.17 Poème, Op. 10, for cello and piano
1.18 Jewish Sketches No. 2, Op. 13, for clarinet and string quartet~I. Andante con moto
1.19 Jewish Sketches No. 2, Op. 13, for clarinet and string quartet~II. Allegro non troppo

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