Newly-discovered Jewish choral music, performed at the Magnified & Sanctified: The Music of Jewish Prayer conference, 17 June 2017

Genre	Concert performance

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds,LS2 9JT

Soprano solo: Mimi Sheffer Mezzo-soprano: Beth Mackay Baritone solo: Robert Webb

As part of the international conference ‘Magnified and Sanctified: The Music of Jewish Worship‘, hosted by the School of Music at the University of Leeds, The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds performed a public concert of Jewish choral music, including works recently discovered as part of the AHRC-funded research project ‘Performing the Jewish Archive‘.

The concert featured the first performances for nearly 100 years of music by composers who were killed in the Holocaust, and those who escaped Eastern Europe and emigrated to South Africa, Australia and elsewhere. The programme included the Passover cantata Chad Gadya [‘One little goat’] by Dowid Ajzensztadt, and works for the Jewish Shabbat liturgy by Dawid Nowakowsky and Froim Spektor, alongside newer compositions by Ian Sapiro, Kurt Weill, Aaron Copland, and others.

Programme

Froim Spektor, V’shomru [The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath]

Dowid Ajzensztadt, Chad Gadya [One little goat]

Dawid Nowakowsky, V’shomru

Karoly Fraknoi, Kinah [Elegy]

Salomone Rossi, Motet for double choir Adon Olam [Master of the Universe]

Dowid Ajzensztadt, Sh’chuloh achuloh [Wasted and desolate]

Kurt Weill, Kiddush [Sanctification of the Sabbath]

Aaron Copland, In the beginning

arr. Rubinstein, Ki Malochov [For he will give his angels]