Come to the cabaret! By juxtaposing Leonid Desyatnikov’s contemporary song settings of Yiddish texts (offering a glimpse into Jewish life in Warsaw during the Weimar Republic) with a pair of chamber works by Schulhoff and Korngold, which also date from this troubled period between the wars, the present recording highlights the fascinating cross-pollination then taking place in the music of Eastern and Western Europe. With soprano Hila Baggio as their featured soloist, members of the Jerusalem Quartet bid us ‘come to the cabaret’ to savour a whole range of stylistic approaches and emotional experiences of the rarest kind. Pieces performed on this album: Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String Quartet No.2 Op.26Erwin Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String QuartetLeonid Desyatnikov: Yiddish Hila Baggio, soprano Harmonia MundiCatalog No.: HMM902631Released: May 2019 Read what the quartet has to say about this album:Yiddish - a new project celebrating jewish influence on XX Century Music PRESS
Happy Spring to everyone. We're excited to present Bartok's 6 miraculous string quartets in our beloved Wigmore Hall in London. Please join us on May 8th and 9th! After this opening, we'll dive into...
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