Hebrew Melody: Jewish Music for Violin & Piano

Kramer (Artist), Achron (Artist), Bloch (Artist), Bruch (Artist), Ravel (Artist), Over (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 20, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Quicksilva Records
• ASIN: B000001HPV
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #643,102 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Baal Shem (Three Pictures Of Chassidie Life): First Movement: Vidui

2. Baal Shem (Three Pictures Of Chassidie Life): Second Movement: Nigun

3. Baal Shem (Three Pictures Of Chassidie Life): Third Movement: Simchas Torah

4. Melodie Herbraique: Kaddish

5. The Chassid

6. Oifn Pripetshok

7. Mein Fidl

8. Numbered Days

9. Ell Eli

10. Kol Nidrei, Op.47

11. Prayer, Op.24 No.1

12. Four Pieces: Efrath

13. Four Pieces: Dani

14. Four Pieces: Mama

15. Four Pieces: Varda

16. Raisins & Almonds

17. Eleazar's Song From La Juive

18. Dance Improvisations On A Hebrew Folk Melody

19. Hebrew Dance

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A beatiful listen, March 19, 2002

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J. A Magill (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hebrew Melody: Jewish Music for Violin & Piano (Audio CD)

Hebrew meoldy offers a listener a powerful glimps into music of a lost world. Haunting melodies, beautfiful performances, and excellent production mark this CD as a wonderful addition to any collection. The music, both familiar and evocative brings tears of joy and sadness in equal measure, but never sits idle on the heart.

5.0 out of 5 stars Hebrew Melody, April 4, 2008

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bold_strummer (New Haven, CT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hebrew Melody: Jewish Music for Violin & Piano (Audio CD)

I have never heard Miriam Kramer play Bach, Paganini, Mozart, or Bartok, but in the CD of Hasidic-oriented pieces, lasting 78 minutes, she reveals herself as a violinist of superior natural talent. She succeeds in getting beneath the skin of her music and is an exceptionally sensitive interpreter and a phrase-maker of uncommon expressivity. As to be expected, much of the 19 pieces are heavily ladened with sentiment which Kramer sagely exploits, while managing to avoid exaggeration or mawkishness. Her vibrato is multi-faceted and flows uninhibitedly.

Among the short works the joyous Bloch Simchas Torah from the Baal Shem Suite is particularly impressive Other outstanding efforts are the complete Bruch transcription of Kol Nidrei, Achron's dazzling Hebrew Dance and Ravel's moving Kaddish. Many of the brief odes are little known but deserve mention such as The Chassid and Prayer by Julius Chajes.

In contemporary mode are Four Pieces by Mark Lavry, while in opposite character is the traditional Eli-Eli, once a favourite of both Elman and Seidel (who both recorded it). Off the beaten path is an unedited arrangement of Eleazer's Song from Fromental Halevy's La Juive, an aria better suited to the voice than the violin.

This CD is notably enhanced by the polished, idiomatic piano accompaniments of Simon Over. In all, this release can be unreservedly recommended.

Henry Roth
The Strad