GD 145 Jules LEVY conductor and composer - FAMOUS MUSICAL MINIATURES
Ave Maria, Malaguena, Summertime,The Man I Love, Adagio in sol minore, etc.
SIMHAH Chamber Collegium,Jules LEVY
Issued: 1993
Style: Classical Music
Company: Gega New GD145
The CD is a collection of 15 favourite miniatures among which Bach - Gounod's Ave Maria, Liszt's Liebestraume, Gershwin's The Man I Love, to mention but a few. Selected and arranged by conductor and composer Jules Levy, some of them have been transcribed by him and are performed by various soloists as, for example, pianist Mayer Frank (Liebestraume and Ave Maria), cellist Ivanka Boneva (Malaguena by Albeniz), violinist Yossif Radionov (solo in Pancho Vladigerov's Song). The SIMHAH (meaning "rejoicing", "mirth" in Hebrew) Chamber Collegium is a musical body with the Shalom Organisation of the Jews in Bulgaria and unites the talent of excellent musicians each of whom is also capable of performing responsible solo parts. The Collegium features a rich and varied repertoire. Jules Levy is one of the most remarkable personalities in Bulgarian musical life in the last three decades, a conductor of long standing with the "Stefan Makedonski" State Musical Theatre, author of choral, symphony and opera works.
Contents:
• Johann Sebastian Bach — Charles Gounod AVE - MARIA
• Tommaso Albinoni - Adagio in sol minore
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - March alla turca
• Ferencz Liszt - Liebestraume (Love dreams)
• Pablo de Sarasate - Zigeunerweisen (Gipsy airs)
• Isaac Albeniz - Sevilla
• Isaac Albeniz - Malaguena
• Isaac Albeniz - Tango
• Sergei Rachmaninov - Vocalise
• Sergei Prokofiev - Gavotte
• Pancho Vladigerov - Song
• Grigorash Dinicu — Pancho Vladigerov - Hora staccato
• George Gershwin - Summertime
• George Gershwin - The man i love
• Zdenek Fibich - Poem
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