℗ 2022 Chandos Records Ltd
Released | January 21, 2022 |
Duration | 1h 02m 49s |
Record Label | Chandos Records |
Catalogue No. | CHAN20261W |
Genre | Classical |
Letter to Kamilla: Music in Jewish Memory
Mosaic Voices, Michael Etherton
Available in 48 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC audio formats
1.1
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Avinu Malkeinu
Max Janowski; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
3:27 | |||
1.2
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Tree of Life (Eitz Chayim)
Nissan Blumenthal; Traditional; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
3:17 | |||
1.3
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Psalm 23
Benjamin Till; Traditional; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
5:12 | |||
1.4
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Dona Dona
Sholom Secunda; Aaron Zeitlin; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
3:49 | |||
1.5
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Generation To Generation (Leh'Dor Va'Dor)
Benjamin Till; Traditional; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
3:27 | |||
1.6
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Shomer Yisrael
Traditional; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
3:26 | |||
1.7
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Yis'mechu
Benjamin Till; Traditional; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
2:28 | |||
1.8
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Sim shalom
Meta Cohen; Traditional; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
4:10 | |||
1.9
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Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen
Traditional; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
3:00 | |||
1.10
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Adon Olam (Feed The Birds)
Richard M. Sherman; Traditional; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
3:10 | |||
1.11
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Adio Querida
Traditional; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
3:39 | |||
1.12
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Uv'nucho Yomar
Benjamin Till; Traditional; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
4:04 | |||
1.13
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El Melech Yoshev
Benjamin Till; Traditional; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
3:06 | |||
1.14
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Veh'al Kulam
Benjamin Till; Traditional; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
1:34 | |||
1.15
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Ochila la 'El
Trad; Traditional; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
3:19 | |||
1.16
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Ein Keloheinu
Benjamin Till; Traditional; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
2:50 | |||
1.17
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Letter From Kamilla
Benjamin Till; Kamilla Breuer; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
5:15 | |||
1.18
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Im Nin' alu
Traditional; Shalom Shabazi; Mosaic Voices; Michael Etherton |
3:36 |
"Jewish choral music, ranging from centuries past to contemporary compositions, is deftly arranged for five voices and sung with power and passion. The story behind the penultimate song, ‘Letter from Kamilla’, is simply heartbreaking."
- BBC Music Magazine
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.’
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Chandos Records Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.50 -3.88 to -0.78 | -18.04 -22.88 to -15.24 | -14.44 -19.50 to -11.90 | 10 8 to 12 | |
1 | Avinu Malkeinu | -1.64 | -18.42 | -15.2 | 11 |
2 | Tree of Life (Eitz Chayim) | -3.88 | -22.88 | -19.5 | 11 |
3 | Psalm 23 | -0.86 | -16.60 | -12.8 | 9 |
4 | Dona Dona | -0.88 | -16.73 | -13.2 | 10 |
5 | Generation To Generation (Leh'Dor Va'Dor) | -0.78 | -17.42 | -13.5 | 9 |
6 | Shomer Yisrael | -3.13 | -22.35 | -19.0 | 11 |
7 | Yis'mechu | -0.86 | -17.12 | -13.6 | 11 |
8 | Sim shalom | -0.88 | -17.73 | -14.3 | 10 |
9 | Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen | -2.88 | -17.79 | -14.4 | 10 |
10 | Adon Olam (Feed The Birds) | -0.90 | -16.89 | -13.6 | 11 |
11 | Adio Querida | -0.86 | -17.02 | -13.1 | 10 |
12 | Uv'nucho Yomar | -2.39 | -18.92 | -15.5 | 11 |
13 | El Melech Yoshev | -0.93 | -15.24 | -12.1 | 9 |
14 | Veh'al Kulam | -0.84 | -15.91 | -11.9 | 8 |
15 | Ochila la 'El | -2.66 | -20.59 | -16.9 | 11 |
16 | Ein Keloheinu | -0.88 | -17.29 | -12.8 | 10 |
17 | Letter From Kamilla | -0.86 | -19.68 | -15.8 | 12 |
18 | Im Nin' alu | -0.89 | -16.12 | -12.7 | 10 |