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The Ancient Question
... A voyage through Jewish songs

Hila Plitmann, soprano

Julian Bliss, clarinet
Christopher Glynn, piano
Thomas Bowes, violin
Andres Kaljuste, viola



"Julian Bliss threatens to steal the show on clarinet, but there’s beauty in the voice and enough variety in the works to keep the ears attentive."

Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale

     
         

La Scena Musicale, January 2012

The Israeli soprano sings her own arrangement of five Yiddish songs, Lori Laitmann’s setting of some Terezin fragments, a slightly insipid set of Psalms by Aharon Harlap and, most effective of all, five Hebrew love songs by her husband, Eric Whitacre. Julian Bliss threatens to steal the show on clarinet, but there’s beauty in the voice and enough variety in the works to keep the ears attentive. 

Norman Lebrecht

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Hila Plitmann
Julian Bliss
Christopher Glynn
Thomas Bowes
Andres Kaljuste

Release date: 5th December 2011
Order code: SIGCD276
Barcode: 635212027622
 

The Ancient Question
A voyage through Jewish songs
  Five Yiddish Songs
Trad. arr. Hila Plitmann (b.1973)
1. i. Di Alte Kasche (The Ancient Question)
2. ii. A Fidler (The Fiddler)
3. iii. Unter A Kleyn Beymele (Under A Small Tree)
4. iv. Du Sollst Nit Geyn (You Shall Go With No Other, Girl!)
5. v. Rozhinkes mit Mandlen (Raisins and Almonds)
 
I Never Saw Another Butterfly (1996)
Lori Laitman (b.1955)
6. i. The Butterfly
7. ii. Yes, That’s the Way Things Are
8. iii. Birdsong
9. iv. The Garden
10. v. Man Proposes, God Disposes
11. vi. The Old House
 
Tehilim (Psalms) (2001)
Aharon Harlap (b.1941)
12. i. Psalm 122 “Samakhti Beomrim Li” (I was glad when they said to me)
13. ii. Psalm 113 “Halleluyah” (Praise the Lord)
14. iii. Psalm 43 “Shafteni Elohim” (Vindicate me, Lord)
 
Five Hebrew Love Songs (2001)
Eric Whitacre (b.1970) music, Hila Plitmann poetry
15. i. Temuná (A picture)
16. ii. Kalá kalá (Light bride)
17. iii. Lárov (Mostly)
18. iv. Éyze shéleg (What snow!)
19. v. Rakút (Tenderness)
 
Bridges of Love (2009)
Sharon Farber (b.1965)
20. i. For Wherever You Go I Will Go
21. ii. Once I Knew
22. iii. Wine of Love
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