Letter To Kamilla: Music in Jewish Memory

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Release Date: 21st Jan 2022
Catalogue No: CHAN20261
Label: Chandos
Length: 62 minutes

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Janowski: Avinu Malkeinu

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton

Nissan Blumenthal: Tree of Life (Eitz Chayim)

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton

Benjamin Till: Psalm 23

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton

Secunda: Dona, dona

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton

Benjamin Till: Generation To Generation (Leh'Dor Va'Dor)

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton, Yoav Oved

trad.: Shomer Yisrael

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton

Benjamin Till: Yis'mechu

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton

Meta Cohen: Sim Shalom

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton

trad.: Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton

Richard Morton Sherman, Robert Bernard Sherman: Adon Olam (Feed The Birds)

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton, Marc Joseph

trad.: Adio Querida

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton

Benjamin Till: Uv'nucho Yomar

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton

Benjamin Till: El Melech Yoshev

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton, Marc Joseph

Benjamin Till: Veh'al Kulam

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton

trad.: Ochila la 'El

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton

Benjamin Till: Ein Keloheinu

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton

Benjamin Till: Letter From Kamilla

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton

trad.: Im Nin' alu

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Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton

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Mosaic Voices are the Resident Choir at the New West End Synagogue, in London. The synagogue, designed in 1877 by the Scottish architect George Audsley, is a masterpiece of Victorian architecture, known for its beautiful choral acoustic. A great deal of the material on this album is therefore music sung by Mosaic Voices, in Hebrew, during religious services and festivals, of which this music forms a functional element. Ochila la’El, El Melech Yoshev, and Avinu Malkeinu are key musical works that form part of the New Year festival liturgy. Shomer Yisrael is sung during the little-known, but beautiful, midnight service of Selichot, which is part of the penitential prayers of the Hebrew month of Elul leading up to the New Year. Tree of Life, Generation to Generation, Yis’mechu, Ein Keloheinu, Uv’nucho Yomar, and Veh’al Kulam are pieces that the ensemble regularly sings at weekly Shabbat services, and form part of the liturgy for those services. The Musical Director, Michael Etherton, writes: ‘Exactly eighty years ago, my great grandmother Kamilla wrote a letter to her children. It was 1942. Fortunately, her children had escaped Nazi-occupied Austria, but Kamilla had not been so lucky. She endured four terrifying years of brutality and unimaginable suffering. The letter to her children was the last thing she wrote before being sent to Auschwitz, where she died. She did not know if her letter would ever reach her children. Eighty years later, my vocal ensemble, Mosaic Voices, is writing back to her in the form of an album of Jewish songs. We want Kamilla to know that, although she, her husband, and her sister, Minka, lost their lives in the Holocaust, all her children survived, and lived their lives successfully and happily in Britain, as proud Jewish people. Hitler’s mission failed. Her touching letter, which Kamilla wrote in German, has been set to music as one of the songs on this album (Letter from Kamilla). The other tracks that we have chosen to record celebrate the diversity, mysticism, and beauty of the music that Jewish people have brought to the world over time.’

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