ExclusiveBruch: Kol Nidrei

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Max Bruch: Kol Nidrei. This beautiful piece was played by Davis High School Symphony Orchestra. It has Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0 DEED, Attribution 3.0 Unported) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 (also known as All Vows, the meaning of the phrase in Aramaic) is a composition for cello and orchestra by Max Bruch. First published in 1881, it was dedicated to and premiered by Robert Hausmann. It is in the form of an Adagio on 2 Hebrew Melodies for Cello and Orchestra with Harp, and consists of a series of variations on two main themes of Jewish origin. The first theme, which gives the piece its title, is taken from the Kol Nidre prayer recited during the Yom Kippur evening service.

The second theme of the piece is taken from the middle section of Isaac Nathan's arrangement of "O Weep for Those that Wept on Babel's Stream", a lyric written by Lord Byron.

Bruch was a Protestant and first became acquainted with the Kol Nidre melody when his teacher Ferdinand Hiller introduced him to the cantor Abraham Jacob Lichtenstein, who was known to have friendly relations with many Christian musicians and supported Bruch's interest in Jewish folk music. While some commentators have criticised the lack of Jewish sentiment in Bruch's Kol Nidrei, Bruch never presumed to write Jewish music. He merely "wished to incorporate Jewish inspirations into his own compositions". This file is from the MIT Archive Project. Source: Musopen.org

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