Hallelujah Festival (Yearly event)
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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 Baroque Orchestra Jerusalem , Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliette 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; 'Alhub', a concert with Sharif and 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, Ankor 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
Yishai Steckler, conductor
Tali Ketzef, soprano
Alon Harari, counter tenor
Alexei Kanonikoff, baritone
Tel Aviv Collegium Singers
Yishai Steckler, chorusmaster
Jerusalem Oratorio Chamber Choir
Dor Magen, chorusmaster
Jerusalem Oratorio Capellate Choir
Naama Nazarathy Gordon, chorusmaster
Ankor Choir
Dafna Ben-Yohanan, 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 12.12.12 | 20:00
Ionuț Pascu, conductor
Dierdre Angenent, mezzo soprano
Dalila Cernatescu, pan flutes
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
Monday 17.12.22 | 20:30
Ariel Cohen, conductor
Sharif, singer
Firqat Alnoor Orchestra
Programme TBA
Romeo and Juliette, Bluebeard’s Castle and Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Tuesday 20.12.22 | 19:30
Steven Sloane, conductor
Krisztián Cser, bass
Soloists TBA
Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliette
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 | 20:00 | YMCA
The Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra
David Shemer, music director
Daniela Skorka, 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
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