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Les Mains Nues by David Chaillou played by Moises Fernandez Via

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

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

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

Reverie(2014) Op.7  Mohammadreza Azin

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

1. Evil Man

David Chaillou is a French contemporary classical composer currently living in Paris. Chaillou has scored for orchestras, voice (opera), string quartets, chamber ensembles, soloists, and electronic music. His works are intended for concert performance, dramatic production and cinema.
https://www.rts.ch/play/radio/magnetique/audio/david-chaillou-du-violonc...

He wrote the music of Little Nemo a children opera inspired by the famous comic strip of Winsor McKay. The project was awarded a prize in opera by the Beaumarchais-SACD association in 2015. Produced by Angers Nantes Opera and the Dijon Opera, the show ran from January to March 2017 and had 23 performance, half of which were for young audiences during their school time. The opera was broadcasted on France musique in January 2017. 

Ongoing - Leger au front, a work commissioned by the Marne region in Champagne-Ardenne in commemoration of WWI, with music for trumpet, percussions, cello and electronics composed by Chaillou, was honored by an award from the French National Centenary Committee. Leger au front has been performed in german in Austria (2014-2015) and Germany (2015) since it premiered in Vienna at Odeon-Theater. The theater production is an international collaboration of artists featuring German actor Karl Markovics as well as Patrice Alexandre, professor at École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris. 

In 2018 it was played in french (actor Olivier Balazuc) in Paris at the Théâtre de l’Athénée http://www.athenee-theatre.com/saison/spectacle/leger_au_front.htm, , and at the Opéra de Reims (22 novembre 2018). 

Nocturne (Animation Grégoire Pont, Musique David Chaillou). Louisiana Museum of modern art (Danemark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlVfeGjAw60

Les Mains Nues by David Chaillou played by Moises Fernandez Via

David Chaillou / Composer