tracks

Canto De Los Marranos (1999)
Shir Shel Moshe (1964) Excerpts (Song Of Moses)
Shiru Ladonai
Mi Khamokha
V'shan'ru
May The Words
Kiddush
Adan Olam
Masada
Part I
Part II

notes

Recorded :
July 1999 Sala Sinfonica del Auditori, Barcelona (Cantos De Marranos)
June 2001 St. Paul Knightsbridge, London (Shir Shel Moshe) (excerpts)
November 2000 Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin (Masada)

Made in Canada
*Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin in coproduction with Deutschland Radio and the ROC Berlin-GmbH

The legendary defense of the desert fortress Masada bt a small band of Jewish Zealots against a massive Roman army inspires awe nearly 2,000 years after the historical occurrence. Marvin David Levy's dramatic retelling of the Masada story, originally written for the great ooperatic tenor and cantor Richard Tucker, here receives its world-premiere recording. Also recorded by the Milken Archive for the first time is Levy's haunting Canto de los Marranos, a dramatic scene for soprano (in four languages: English, Ladino, Hebrew, and Latin) that reveals the passions and conflicts of the 15th-century Spanish Jews who outwardly converted to Christianity while secretly practicing their Jewish beliefs "under penalty of death." ---From Liner notes

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credits

Composed By – Marvin David Levy
Engineer – Annerose Unger (tracks: 8,9), Bertram Kornacher (tracks: 1), Campbell Hughes (tracks: 2,3,4,5,6,7), Henri Thaon (tracks: 8,9), Morgan Roberts (tracks: 2,3,4,5,6,7)
Producer – Simon Weir (tracks: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7), Wolfram Nehls

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Milken Family Foundation
Copyright (c) – Milken Family Foundation
Published By – Boosey & Hawkes

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