A festive tribute concert celebrating the jubilee of the composer, pianist, conductor and producer Gil Shohat. Jerusalem debut performance for Shohat’s largescale piece, alongside Israeli and International popular songs.
Artists
Gil Shohat, conductor, soloist (piano), host, editor and music director
David D’Or, singer
Tali Ketzef, soprano
Anat Czerny, mezzo-soprano
Bat Kol Girls Choir, Tel-Aviv
Anat Morahg, director and conductor
Programme
Mozart – Don Giovanni: Overture
Lucio Dalla – Caruso (lyrics by Lucio Dalla)
Avinu Malkenu (Barbara Streisand version)
Uzi Hitman – Adon Olam
Offenbach – ‘Le Chanson d’Olympia’ from Tales of Hoffman
Gershwin – ‘Summertime’, from Porgy and Bess (libretto by Ira Gershwin)
Shmuel Elbaz – Keshehalev Bohe/Shma Israel
Jacques Brel – La Chanson des Vieux Amants (lyrics by Jacques Brel, trans. Naomi Shemer)
Ravel – Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
David D’or – Shmor Al Haolam (lyrics by David D’or)
Gil Shohat – Symphony No. 6, The Cantata of Ecstasy, for soprano, mezzo-soprano, female choir and Orchestra (2000) – ‘A journey from Material Existence to the Kether Sphere’, premiere with the JSO