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Avodath hakodesh Sacred service
Creator
Uniform Title
ʻAvodat ha-ḳodesh
Title
Avodath hakodesh [sound recording] = Sacred service / Ernest Bloch. Song of songs / Lukas Foss. Sweet psalmist of Israel / Paul Ben-Haim.
Published
[New York, N.Y.] : Sony Classical ; [Bryn Mawr, Pa.] : ArkivMusic, [2010?], 1992.
Physical Description
2 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
The Foss work is a cantata, the Ben-Haim an instrumental suite.
Text of the Bloch from the Union prayer book for Jewish worship; text of the Foss from Song of Solomon in the King James version.
Compact discs.
Authorized reissue of SM2K 47533 (47534--47535).
Originally issued on Columbia analog discs in 1960 &1961.
Durations: 52:26 ; 25:48 ; 27:35.
Program notes by Hans-Ulrich Fuss in German, English, French & Italian, & Hebrew vocal texts (in Hebrew characters & transliterated) with English, French & German translations (Bloch), & English vocal texts with French, German & Italian translations (Foss) inserted in container.
Recorded at the Manhattan Center, New York City on Apr. 10, 1960 (Bloch), St. George Hotel in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Jan. 27, 1958 (Foss) & in Carnegie Hall on May 2, 1959 (Ben-Haim).
The Bloch is sung in Hebrew; the Foss sung in English.
Variant and related titles
Sacred service.
Song of songs.
Sweet psalmist of Israel.
Format
Audio
Language
Hebrew; English
Added to Catalog
May 08, 2012
Series
The royal edition ; no. 18
Performers
Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano, Choir of the Metropolitan Synagogue, Choir of the Community Church of New York (Foss) ; Robert Merrill, baritone, Judah Cahn, speaker (Bloch) ; Sylvia Marlowe, harpsichord, Christine Stavrache, harp (Ben-Haim) ; New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, conductor.
Issue number
SONY 47533 Sony Classical/ArkivMusic
SM2K 47533 (47534--47535) Sony Classical
47534 Sony Classical
47535 Sony Classical
Subjects
Also listed under
Metropolitan Synagogue (New York, N.Y.). Choir.
Community Church (New York, N.Y.). Choir.
New York Philharmonic.
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