Credits:

Edgar Moreau

Description:

Young French cellist Edgar Moreau's collection of Jewish-related concerto works for cello by four 20th century composers, Korngold, Bloch, Bruch, and Ravel, Bloch's "From Jewish Life" is a collection of works that includes the famous "Prayer" as an encore piece. The "Shelomo" in the Hebrew rhapsody "Shelomo" refers to King Solomon in the Old Testament, and the solo cello proceeds through the piece as King Solomon. It is written as a grandiose sentiment of musicality rooted in Bloch's Jewish worldview. The Cello Concerto, composed the year after Korngold's masterful Violin Concerto, is an expanded adaptation of a piece he wrote for the film "Love and Hate," about a love triangle between a cellist and a composer over a female pianist. The piece has modern harmonies and a sophisticated sound, and the cello solo is rendered with precision and intensity. Bruch's Kol Nidrei, based on a recitation melody used in Judaism during services.An ambitious program of works for cello with deep connections to Jewish roots and to Jewish music, such as Ravel's "Two Hebrew Songs," in which "Ode (Kaddish)," an Aramaic liturgical text, is placed in the first piece, which was written in a succession of exotic tastes and folk music. Lyrical, passionate, and sensually beautiful, Moreau's sound is an "epic, expansive elegy" that calls for the possibilities of songful cello playing. Warner Music Japan

Tracklisting:

1.From Jewish Life, B. 54~I. Prayer: Andante moderato
2.From Jewish Life, B. 54~II. Supplication
3.From Jewish Life, B. 54~III. Jewish Song
4.Cello Concerto in C, Op. 37~Allegro moderato, ma con fuoco -
5.Cello Concerto in C, Op. 37~Grave - Lento -
6.Cello Concerto in C, Op. 37~Allegro moderato
7.Kol Nidrei, Op. 47
8.Schelomo - Rhapsodie hebraique, B. 39~I. Lento moderato
9.Schelomo - Rhapsodie hebraique, B. 39~II. Allegro moderato
10.Schelomo - Rhapsodie hebraique, B. 39~III. Andante moderato
11.2 Melodies hebraiques, M. 22~I. Kaddisch: Lent
12.2 Melodies hebraiques, M. 22~II. L'Enigme eternelle: Tranquillo