Echoes of Zion
Lucie Skeaping introduces the first programme in a week of Jewish and Jewish-inspired works, from Baroque to Bernstein and from medieval Sephardic ballads to 20th-century Yiddish songs.
Today's programme includes string music by the 17th-century Mantuan composer Salamone Rossi , a movement from
Robert Starer 's clarinet concerto K'li Zemer, the BBC Singers performing
Leonard Bernstein 's Hashkivenu, and Max Bruch 's Kol Nidrei performed by cellist Mischa Maisky. Plus the first of five excerpts from a Midnight Selichot Service performed by the Shabbaton Choir.