New Jewish Music Volume 5
Chœur de l’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal; Instrumentalists of the OSM; Andrew Megill
Analekta AN29265 (outhere-music.com/en/albums/new-jewish-music-vol-5-nobles-bardanashvili-klartag-trigos)
Just as the range of human experience is vast and wide, the expansiveness of Jewish music (Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Ladino, religious, secular) is equally nuanced, leaving a rich legacy of artistry and beautiful composition. Accordingly, New Jewish Music, Vol.5, is appropriately equally varied, a welcome collection platforming works of the 2024 laureates of the biennial Azrieli Music Prize: Jordan Nobles, Josef Bardanashvili, Yair Klartag, and Juan Trigos.
Over 16 tracks performed by the Chorus of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) under the direction Andrew Megill, this fine new recording presents multiple musical traditions, experiences, and a diversity of voices while articulating themes from the cosmos during the time of the Aztec, to beautifully bringing to life the traditional Georgian influence heard on Bardanashvili’s five-part Light to My Path.
Celebrating what is possible with a variety of ensemble sizes, this recording runs the gamut from the atmospheric sparseness and intimacy of Nobles’ a cappella piece Kanata – musically plumbing the vastness of the Canadian landscape – before augmenting in scope and size with members of the OSM for Trigos’ Simetrías Prehispánicas (Pre-Hispanic Symmetries). Bardanashvili adds saxophone, percussion and piano to the mixed choir for his work, while Klartag’s Parable of the Palace supplements the chorus with four double basses.
New Jewish Music, Vol.5 is ambitious, musically satisfying and consistently excellent.
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