SKU: OT.26114

ISBN 9789655051049. 8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Ariel Lazarus
Guitarra Liturgia
Two pieces based on music from the Spanish and Portuguese tradition.
Contents:
Jerusalem de Sefarad - Suite for Guitar
Contrapunto Sefardi
The composer writes:
For many years I wanted to compose a piece for guitar which would inspire interested students to expand their repertoire in the direction of Jewish music. The most natural thing for me was to write a suite based on themes from the synagogue in which I grew up – the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue of Gibraltar. My beloved grandfather served all his life as hazzan (cantor) of this synagogue, and I always felt as a composer and educator that I had a special obligation to continue his tradition and pass it on to a new generation. In this composition, I let the guitar echo the piyyutim (semi-liturgical poems) that were part of my childhood: Adon Olam, Sh'charchoret, Achot K'tana, Yigdal, Borei ad Ana, all of which are sung in the Spanish and Portuguese tradition from Gibraltar to London, and from New York to Jerusalem. I let myself dream the piyyutim, take them apart and reconstruct them as a short suite for guitar, the results of which you are invited to hear here. As a conceptual idea for the suite, I choose to suggest about the cultural continuation between the Diaspora and the land of Israel by way of referencing the well-known melody of Naomi Shemer, which is also popular among the hazzanim.
Dr. Ariel Lazarus is a unique voice among Israeli composer-performers today. Brought up in a family with Jewish musical roots both in Gibraltar and Westphalia, he began composing and playing the guitar in his teens, and has been committed to developing his own compositional language ever since, always maintaining an open dialogue with his traditions.
Lazarus received his BMus and MMus degrees from Oklahoma City University in classical guitar performance and composition where he studied with American composer Dr. Edward Knight. He earned his PhD from Bar Ilan University, studying composition with Prof. Betty Olivero and Prof. Gideon Lewensohn and conducting research under the supervision of Prof. Edwin Seroussi from the Hebrew University. His symphonic works have been premiered by the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra, and his chamber works have been performed by various ensembles in the United States, Central Europe, Portugal, Gibraltar, Scandinavia and Israel. Lazarus performs regularly as Art Ambassador on behalf of the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora affairs Amiel BaKehila program.
His solo album A Hebrew Capriccio was released by the German boutique label SmoothFactor and was awarded critical acclaim, among others, in Haaretz, and Neue Westfalishe.
Dr. Lazarus is the musical director and co-founder of the Israeli Ladino Orchestra. His work with the orchestra has been recognized by the official Carta de España. He teaches at the Academic College for Education Givat Washington, and the Rimon School of Music. Lazarus’s work has been awarded by the Israeli Pais Art council and ACUM.

SKU: GI.G-8701G

English. Text Source: Sequence: Veni Sancte Spiritus, attr. Stephen Langston, ca. 1150–1228, tr. Peter J. Scagnelli after Edward Caswall, 1814–1878, Gospel Verse, Lectionary for Mass; Translation: Peter Scagnelli.

SKU: GI.G-10475G

UPC: 785147047575. Text by Horatius Bonar.

SKU: GI.G-10836G

Text Source: Psalm 100:1-2, 3, 5, Lectionary for Mass

SKU: HF.FH-3379

ISBN 9790203433798. 9 x 12 inches.

1. Bedrich Smetana: Die Moldau (aus Mein Vaterland); 2. Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Prelude (aus Te Deum); 3. Anonymus: Spanische Romanze; 4. Ludwig van Beethoven: Freude schoner Gotterfunken (aus: Sinfonie Nr. 9); 5. Isaac Albeniz: Asturias; 6. Antonio Vivaldi: Fruhling (aus: Die vier Jahreszeiten); 7. Antonin Dvorak: Largo (aus Sinfonie Nr. 9); 8. Joseph Haydn: Kaiserhymne; 9. Giuseppe Verdi: Donne e mobile (aus Rigoletto); 10. Ludwig van Beethoven: Fur Elise; 11. Georg Friedrich Handel: Hallelujah (aus Messias); 12. Johann Pachebel: Kanon; 13. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Alla turca (aus Klaviersonate KV 588); 14. Modest Mussorgski: Promenade (aus Bilder einer Ausstellung); 15. Johann Sebastian Bach: Menuett (aus Notenbuchlein); 16. Edvard Grieg: Morgenstimmung (aus Peer Gynt Suite); 17. Pjotr I. Tschaikowski: thema (aus Klavierkonzert Nr. 1); 18. Edward Elgar: Land of hope and glory (aus Pomp and circumstances); 19. Edvard Grieg: In der Halle des Bergkonigs (aus Peer Gynt Suite); 20. Luigi Bocchcerini: Minuetto (aus Streichquartett op. 11): 21. Maurice Ravel: Bolero; 22. Pjotr I. Tschaikowski: Thema (aus Schwanensee); 23. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Hochzeitsmarsch (aus Sommernachtstraum); 24. Johann Strauss: An der schonen blauen Donau; 25. Johann Sebastian Bach: Jesus bleibt meine Freude (aus BWV 147); 26. Francisco Tarrega: Gran Vals.

SKU: DZ.DZ-2016

ISBN 9782896559152.