Yitzhak Yedid - Visions, Fantasies And Dances - Music For String Quartet (2013)

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Artist: Yitzhak Yedid, Janna Gandelman, Roman Spitzer, Amos Boasson, Oleg Stolpner
Title: Visions, Fantasies And Dances - Music For String Quartet
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: Between the Lines
Genre: Jazz, Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 55:02
Total Size: 255 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

1. Introduction: Fire Of My Spiritual Life (00:41)
2. Vision Of An Old Woman Sitting Alone And Weeping (01:35)
3. Mirages Of Friendship (00:36)
4. The Vision Of The Woman Does Not Loosen Its Grip On Me (00:26)
5. In A Sharp Transition (02:36)
6. Flying In The Heavens With The Exalted Angels (01:24)
7. Awakening (01:22)
8. Fantasies From The Antipodes (01:40)
9. A Conflict Of Loves (00:11)
10. Vision Of Chaos And Calamity (00:49)
11. Hallucinatory Dance Of A Drunken Klezmer Player (02:02)
12. Image Of The Calm After The Storm (01:34)
13. Singing The Baqashot (00:58)
14. "A Day Of Trouble And Distress, A Day Of Ruin And Desolation, A Day Of Darkness And Gloominess, A Day Of Clouds And Thick Darkness" (Zephaniah 1:15) (02:15)
15. Prayer Of "The Soul Of Every Being" (01:04)
16. Dreaming Reality (02:20)
17. "And Thy Faithfulness Every Night" (Psalms 92:3) (03:36)
18. Night Watch Prayer At The Western Wall (01:47)
19. Celebration Of The Promiscuous Dancers (01:32)
20. Chorus About The Hallucinations (01:51)
21. "A Time To Weep, A Time To Laugh, A Time To Mourn, A Time To Dance." (Ecclesiastes 3:4) (01:05)
22. Wondering About The Hallucinations (02:59)
23. And Behold, Again The Celebrators (02:08)
24. Craze Of Creation (01:12)
25. Fire Of My Spiritual Life (02:56)
26. The Violinist's Gaze (00:26)
27. Unison Of Marchers (02:54)
28. He Breaks Into A Solo Like Someone Who Doesn't Want To Stop (00:14)
29. Trumpeting Of The Dancers (00:26)
30. Image Of A Bloodied Pig Falling From The Sky (Inspired By A Picture By Marc Chagall) (00:26)
31. "Lu Yehi" (Naomi Shemer) (01:45)
32. "Thy Destroyers And They That Laid Thee Waste Go Away From Thee." (Isaiah 49:17) (00:51)
33. And In The Midst Of The Holy Thou Shall Be Praised (01:27)
34. Prayer For Another Day (05:57)

The spiritual experience of Yitzhak Yedid as a child chanting the Baqashot at the well-known Ades Synagogue in Jerusalem inspired this composition. Baqashot are collections of supplications, songs and prayers that have been sung by the Sephardic Syrian Jewish communities for centuries. "Every Shabbat during winter months my father woke me up a few hours after midnight to walk to Ades Synagogue to participate in the singing until dawn. Later in my life I was able to distinguish between different Maqamat. This attracted me to explore classical Arabic music and heterophonic textures, and, just as has occurred in Baqashot, to compose works that merge Maqamat with Jewish themes. Since I trained in Western classical music and practice improvisation (as a pianist) it seemed appropriate to merge these different influences" says Yedid.

And so, Visions, Fantasies and Dances is an authentic expression of new music which incorporates a wide spectrum of contemporary and ancient styles. It creates a confluence between the heterophonic textures of Arabic genres (classical Arabic music and Arabic-influenced Jewish music) and the compositional approaches of contemporary Western classical music. Amongst the Western composers of special importance to Yedid are Béla Bartók (1881-1945), György Kurtág (b. 1926), György Ligeti (1923-2006), Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Stefan Wolpe (1902- 1972) and John Zorn (b. 1953).

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