This second volume of excerpts from Jewish operas continues Naxos' Milken Archive of American Jewish Music series, and includes selections from two operas based on contemporary literature, and one derived from the Bible. David Schiff's Gimpel the Fool (1974-1985) is based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's most famous story and was originally in Yiddish, ...
The songs by three of the four composers presented here are responses to the devastation of the Holocaust, and one cycle is by a composer who was himself its victim. The only works predating the Holocaust are Ravel's Two Hebrew Melodies, and they fit well because of their lamenting tone, intense expressivity, and use of Eastern European modes and ...
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