Schoenberg Kol Nidre
Alberto Mizrahi narrator
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe director
March 2012, Orchestra Hall, Chicago
Shostakovich Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Ildar Abdrazakov bass
June 2012, Orchestra Hall, Chicago
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In these live performances by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti the cumulative power is inexorable.
This release on CSO Resound, the house label of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, features works by two modern masters: Schoenberg's Kol Nidre and Shostakovich's Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti. The seventh CSO Resound recording with Riccardo Muti, it captures live performances in Orchestra Hall from March and June 2012.
Kol Nidre showcases Muti conducting the CSO and the Chicago Symphony Chorus, with renowned interpreter of Jewish music Alberto Mizrahi as the narrator. Internationally acclaimed Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov is the soloist in Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Arnold Schoenberg composed his Kol Nidre in 1938 at the request of Rabbi Jacob Sonderling of the Los Angeles-based Fairfax Temple. The Kol Nidre is a statement of faith associated with the eve of Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement, the most solemn of Jewish holidays. Receiving its world premiere only a month after the Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany, Kol Nidre is a liturgical work in which a rabbi engages in reverent dialogue with a chorus.
Composed in 1974 for bass and piano, Dmitri Shostakovich's Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti was later scored for full orchestra. Shostakovich regarded the suite in its final version as his last symphony. He died on August 9, 1975, before the orchestral version could receive its premiere. Written in part to mark the fifth centenary of Michelangelo's birth, the suite features settings of 11 poems by the Italian artist and writer on topics ranging from love and creativity to death and exile. Shostakovich's spare settings of these verses underscore the gravity of the suite's heavier themes; those themes had personal relevance to the dying composer, who had lived nearly his entire life under Soviet rule.
Discs: 1
Record Label: CSO Resound
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Digital Download Audio Quality: MP3, 320kbps
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