Kol Nidrei as a stand alone orchestra piece?
We watched on PBS a mystery episode of a series called Van Der Walk.
Yes, it started with a murder of a woman cellist but then on occasions the detectives visited the orchestra which was rehearsing.. Kol Nidrei.
I tried to read about it and all I found on Wikipedia was that Bruch just incorporated a “Jewish music” to his concerto.
It is styled as an Adagio on 2 Hebrew Melodies for Cello and Orchestra with Harp and consists of a series of variations on two main themes of Jewish origin.[4] The first theme, which also lends the piece its title, comes from the Kol Nidre declaration, which is recited during the evening service on Yom Kippur. In Bruch's setting of the melody, the cello imitates the rhapsodic voice of the cantor who chants the liturgy in the synagogue. The second subject of the piece is quoted from the middle section of Isaac Nathan's arrangement of "O Weep for Those that Wept on Babel's Stream", a lyric which was penned by Lord Byron in his collection Hebrew Melodies (which also includes the famous poem "She Walks in Beauty”).
Bruch never presumed to write Jewish music. He only wished to incorporate Jewish inspirations into his own compositions.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kol_Nidrei_(Bruch)
Still interesting.
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Mine was between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
