Jewish Cello Masterpieces

Track Listings
1. Ernest Bloch: "Nigun" (from Baal Shem)    
2. Ernest Bloch: "Schelomo"    
3. Max Bruch: "Kol Nidre"    
4. Ernest Bloch: "Prayer" (from Jewish Life)    
5. Ernest Bloch: "Meditation Hebraique"    
6. Maurice Ravel: "Kaddisch"    
7. Zavel Zilberts: "Reb Dovid'l"    
8. Zavel Zilberts: "V'shom'ru"    
9. Zavel Zilberts: "Haneros Halolu"    
10. Jacob Wasilkovsky: "Al Tiro"    
11. Zavel Zilberts: "Havdolo"    
12. David Meyerowitz: "Gelt" (Wie Shlecht es is Ohn Gelt)    

Editorial Reviews
All About Jazz, May 2003
"Jewish Cello Masterpieces, a special delight...a soaring tribute....that should be sought after by both musicians and listeners..."

The New York Jewish Week December 28, 2003
Top 10 CD's of 2003. "........powerful, dark and brooding music, superbly played by Locker"

Album Description
A beautiful collection of great Jewish Music. Classics by Ernest Bloch and Max Bruch, mixed with rarely heard gems by Maurice Ravel, Zavel Zilberts, Jacob Wasilkovsky, and David Meyerowitz. "Wie Shlecht es is Ohn Gelt", a Yiddish Theatre gem, is alone worth the price of admission for its mixture of pathos and humor. The songs by Zilberts are an important and beautiful part of the Jewish music legacy that must be heard.

Jewish Cello Masterpieces

Jewish Cello Masterpieces, Music, Richard Locker, Ernest Bloch, Max Bruch, David Meyerowitz, Maurice Ravel, Jacob Wasilkovsky, Zavel Zilberts, Susan Walters, 20th/21st Century Music for Voice and Keyboard, Cello Concerto, Cello with Keyboard, Chamber, Concerto, Passionate, elegant, and stylish interpretations of these great pieces, some familiar and some rarely heard, but all played with quality unsurpassed by any artist performing today., Vocal, Vocal Music
Jewish Cello Masterpieces
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • "Beautiful"? More like "funereal". Very dark and depressing.
  • BEAUTIFUL!!
  • Encore! Encore!
  • Superb!
  • A superb collection
 Jewish Cello Masterpieces

Manufacturer: Leggiero Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006NSWV
Release Date: 2002-09-20

Tracks:

  1. Ernest Bloch: "Nigun" (from Baal Shem)
  2. Ernest Bloch: "Schelomo"
  3. Max Bruch: "Kol Nidre"
  4. Ernest Bloch: "Prayer" (from Jewish Life)
  5. Ernest Bloch: "Meditation Hebraique"
  6. Maurice Ravel: "Kaddisch"
  7. Zavel Zilberts: "Reb Dovid'l"
  8. Zavel Zilberts: "V'shom'ru"
  9. Zavel Zilberts: "Haneros Halolu"
  10. Jacob Wasilkovsky: "Al Tiro"
  11. Zavel Zilberts: "Havdolo"
  12. David Meyerowitz: "Gelt" (Wie Shlecht es is Ohn Gelt)

Album Description

A beautiful collection of great Jewish Music. Classics by Ernest Bloch and Max Bruch, mixed with rarely heard gems by Maurice Ravel, Zavel Zilberts, Jacob Wasilkovsky, and David Meyerowitz. "Wie Shlecht es is Ohn Gelt", a Yiddish Theatre gem, is alone worth the price of admission for its mixture of pathos and humor. The songs by Zilberts are an important and beautiful part of the Jewish music legacy that must be heard.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars "Beautiful"? More like "funereal". Very dark and depressing........2007-07-12

"Beautiful"? I did not find anything about this music "beautiful". Most of it is very dark and depressing. A few of the songs sound like something you would hear in a horror movie. Now I know why they do not provide samples to listen to. The only two songs I found pleasant to listen to were "Zilberts: Reb Dovid'l" and "Meyerowitz: Gelt (Wie Shlecht es is Ohn Gelt)". I am very disappointed. Admittedly, I purchased this CD without really knowing what to expect. I just trusted the previous reviews. Try to find samples to listen to before you purchase this CD to see if you like this kind of music.

5 out of 5 stars BEAUTIFUL!!.......2006-01-07

I love this CD and have bought several for friends. Music is so very beautiful. Toda raba!!!!

5 out of 5 stars Encore! Encore!.......2004-01-13

Perhaps no other instrument captures the sad-sweet contemplative mood of classical Jewish music like a cello. Is this because so many Jewish composers have written for the cello, that we think of it as a "Jewish" instrument? Or did they choose the cello because it sings so beautifully of the Jewish soul? Like the chicken and the egg, this question may never be answered -- but it doesn't really matter. This superb music is an important part of our Jewish legacy in its own right.

On this CD, cellist Richard Locker, accompanied by Susan Walters on piano, brings together 12 classical Jewish pieces, some well-known and others not so, in an absolutely magnificent performance -- so beautiful, that it literally brought tears to my eyes. The CD starts out with a niggun (Hasidic tune) by Ernest Bloch, then moves into to the dark, somber strains of Max Bruch's "Kol Nidre." From there it rises in mood, to end with a playful Yiddish theater piece, "Wie schecht is ohne Gelt" (How awful it is to be without money!) Included is the rarely heard "Meditation Hebraique" by Bloch, which he dedicated to Pable Casals, and a trio of pieces by the lesser-known composer, Zavel Zilberts (1881-1949), who directed the Choral Society of New York and played with the Metropolitan Opera. All of this is performed on a cello made by Nicolo Gagliano, dated 1780. To hear such a fine old instrument played by a talented, sensitive musician is truly a mechayah! (pleasure)

5 out of 5 stars Superb!.......2003-12-05

I recently received this CD as a gift and was simply overwhelmed by how beautiful it is. The music, the playing, and the recording are all stunning. The interpretations of the well known works are magnificent and the pieces by Zilberts and Meyerowitz are a revelation. I cannot recommend this recording highly enough.

5 out of 5 stars A superb collection.......2002-11-17

Jewish Cello Masterpieces is magnificent! This is a soulful performance by a true cello master. I look forward to more work from Richard Locker!
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    Manufacturer: Claves
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