CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Naomi and Ruth / Sacred Service for the Sabbath Eve
| Composer(s): | Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario |
| Artist(s) | Christopher, Ted, baritone • London Chorus, Choir • New York Cantorial Choir, Choir • Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus, Choir • Levin, Neil, Conductor • Marriner, Neville, Conductor • Corp, Ronald, Conductor • Mariner, Rodney, narrator • Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra • Harbach, Barbara, organ • Potton, Hugh, organ • Robinson, McNeil, organ • Martinez, Ana Maria, soprano • Cohen, Jeremy, tenor • Spiro, Simon, tenor |
| Period(s) | 20th Century |
| Genre | Classical Music |
| Category | Choral - Sacred • Instrumental |
| Catalogue | 8.559404 |
| Label | Naxos |
| Quality | 320kbps |
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"This is one of the purest and most touching compositions you have ever written," wrote fellow émigré composer Ernst Toch to his friend Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco after hearing his cantata Naomi and Ruth. For Castelnuovo-Tedesco, America offered new opportunities to deepen and develop his Italian musical heritage and his Jewish spiritulaity. He dreamed that he might hear his Sacred Service "once in the synagogues of Florence," but instead this major work was premiered at New York's Park Avenue Synagogue, establishing a long tradition of contemporary sacred Jewish music commissioned from leading composers.
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