Hallelujah Festival

Passion | תשוקה | شغف

5.12 – 27.12.2022

 

This year’s Hallelujah Festival is dedicated to the theme of Passion.

The festival’s opening concert features Orff’s Carmina Burana, as well as the world première of Hana Ajiashvilli’s Riddle, for soloists, choirs and orchestra, based on a short unsolved riddle by Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi, an ‘emotional work about temptation and passion that could kill’, according to the composer.

Also in this year’s festival – A special Christmas concert with the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra , Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet and the Symphonic Dances from Bernstein’s West Side Story, as well as Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle in a concert of what could be described killing desire; a concert of music from Sephardic traditions with Firqat Alnur Orchestra – and a Classical-Jazz concert with Yaron Gottfried and friends.

We would like to thank all the festival’s participants: Firqat Alnur Orchestra,  Jerusalem Oratorio Chamber Choir , Tel Aviv Collegium Singers, Jerusalem Oratorio Capellate Choir, Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, Tel Aviv Collegium Singers, The Jerusalem Theater and the Jerusalem Municipality.

 

Concerts in this series:

Festival Opening Concert
Monday 5.12.22 | 19:30

Yishai Steckler, conductor
Tali Ketzef, soprano
Alon Harari, counter tenor
Alexey Kanunikoff, baritone

Tel Aviv Collegium Singers
 Yishai Steckler, chorusmaster

Jerusalem Oratorio Chamber Choir
 Dor Magen, chorusmaster


Jerusalem Oratorio Capellate Choir
 Naama Nazarathy Gordon, chorusmaster

Hana Ajiashvili – Riddle, for Soloists, Choirs and Orchestra (based on Yehuda Ha-Levi), world première, commissioned by the Adele and John Gray Endowment Fund
Orff – Carmina Burana


Romanian Passion
Saturday 10.12.22 | 19:30

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Ionuț Pascu, conductor
Dalila Cernatescu, pan flutes
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Paul Constantinescu – The Little Shepherd
László Roth – Mountain Echoes (work in progress)
George Enescu – Romanian Rhapsody
Constantin Silvestri – Transylvanian Dances 
Theodor Grigoriu – Symphonic Variations on a Song by Anton Pann (highlights)
Dumitru Bughici – Romanian Suite (arr.: Ionuț Pascu), work in progress
Improvisation
Mihail Jora – Moldavian Views, Part II
Theodor Rogalski – Three Romanian Dances 
Mircea Chiriac – Dance of the Spells 
Kalousharii (arr: Ionut Pascu)

 

Alhub | الحب 
Monday 12.12.22 | 20:30


The greatest Arab love songs

 

Sharif, singer


Firqat Alnoor Orchestra
Ariel Cohen, conductor


Romeo and Juliet, Bluebeard’s Castle and Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Tuesday 20.12.22 | 19:30

Steven Sloane, conductor
Dierdre Angenent, mezzo soprano
Krisztián Cser, bass baritone

Tchaikovsky – Romeo and Juliet
Bernstein – Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Bartók – Bluebeard’s Castle, an Opera in One Act


Pictures at an Exhibition – Remake | Jazz Meets Classical – with Yaron Gottfried and Friends
Monday 26.12.22 | 19:30

Yaron Gottfried, conductor and soloist (piano)
Yorai Oron, bass
Roni Holan, drums

Gershwin – An American in Paris
Famous Jazz numbers by Gershwin, Duke Ellington (arr. for Jazz trio and orchestra: Yaron Gottfried) such as The Man I Love, Caravan, Sweet Georgia Brown and others
Mussorgsky/Gottfried – Pictures at an Exhibition – Remake

Christmas Concert
Tuesday 27.12.22 | YMCA | 20:00

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The Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra

David Shemer, music director


Daniela Skorka, soprano
Hagar Sharvit, mezzo soprano
Itamar Hildesheim, tenor
Guy Peltz, baritone
Marusha Brazocek, recorder

Bach – I am Happy in My Lot, Aria from Cantata BWV 84
Bach – Actus Tragicus, Cantata BWV 106
Corelli – Christmas Concerto Grosso No. 8 in g minor from Opus 6
Vivaldi -Concerto for Recorder and Orchestra
Avner Hanani – Concerto da Camera, world première, commissioned by Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra