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Kammerorchesterbasel
März 2021

Nocturno Onirico für Streichorchester

Les Mains Nues by David Chaillou played by Moises Fernandez Via

Three Stories For Piano

Georg Streuber-Chraniuk, baritone
Markus Syperek, piano

The 'Kaddish' prayer is one of the central and best-known texts within Judaism. It is considered as a Jewish Prayer for the Dead and for Mourners and is recited at Jewish funerals as well as at the anniversaries of a death or at memorial events. Death and Mourning do not as such appear in the text; the Aramaic and Hebrew words speak more of a glorification of God and God's forthcoming Kingdom - words which should traditionally provide comfort for the mourners and strengthen them for their continuing lives.

The Kaddish has however also  a further function and is recited more frequently in traditional Jewish services; here it serves always as a division between different sections of the service text, as the conclusion of a reflection or meditation, and also as a form of transition and division between different themes. Special about the Kaddish is that it may only be used in a liturgical context when there is a 'Minyan' present, a quorum of at least ten Jewish adult males. 

Max Doehleman has now set this multi-layered traditional mourning song with the methodology of a Lied. The basic mood is melancholy, as is appropriate to the main theme - the setting should however not illustrate total hopelessness; the listener should instead experience a communication direct to the soul despite all the sense of loss and sorrow. A Kaddish that (as the prayer text itself indicates) reflects also the continuity of life and the cycle of arrival and departure. As well as the moment of grief the music can also beas an expression of transition or change.

Max Doehlemann: Kaddisch

Radmila Bocev, violina / violin
Božo Banović, klavir / piano

Recorded in 2007

Sheet music available at https://www.universaledition.com/en/Works/Robots/P0213639

Roboti / Robots

Angel Hernandez Lovera - Composer

Vertixe Sonora:
Clara Saleiro - flute
Carlos Cordeiro - clarinet 
Pablo Coello - saxophon
Maria Mogas - accordion
David Durán - piano

Commissioned by
Vertex Sonora
12.05.2022
Instituto Cervantes. Viena
Suena Festival 2022

Akarapichaimá for Ensemble

Chromatische Induktion für Cello Solo

For Flute, Clarinet in Bb, piano, violin, cello

Unknown album (7/4/2016 2:41:3

Reverie(2014) Op.7  Mohammadreza Azin

Imágenes Permutadas:

Greame Jennings (Violin)
Uli Fussenegger (Double Bass)
Jorge Sánchez-Chiong (TurnTable)

Recording in the Darmstädter Musik Festival 2016

Imágenes Permutadas para Violín, Contrabajo y TurnTables

Primitive root modules (2016)
Recorded at Museo La Neomudéjar (Madrid, Spain)
April 2017

Colmena
Flute(s): Rosa Soler
Bass clarinet: Josu Izco
Saxo(s): Diego García-Pliego
Percussion: Manu Alcaraz
Violin: Jacobo Hernández
Conductor: Javier Quislant

Primitive root modules (II) - Ensemble Colmena

A Green Thing

Cello & Electronic: Elio Herrera

Impuls Festival 2019 - Graz
Forum Stadtpark

Promenade II (Cello & Electronic)

Composed by Juan Arroyo and played by Omar Nicho.
Live at Quipu 2019, Paris

1. Evil Man

Oboe: Vicente Moronta
Donnerstag, 6. Juni 2019
Swiss Foundation For Young Musicians

Nocturno Onirico für Streichorchester

Angel Hernandez Lovera

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