Music in Exile: Chamber Music by Paul Ben-Haim
Toronto ensemble ARC champion émigré composer
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Composer or Director: Paul Ben Haim
Label: Chandos
Magazine Review Date: 09/2013
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 77
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CHAN10769
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Piano Quartet |
Paul Ben Haim, Composer
ARC Ensemble Paul Ben Haim, Composer |
2 Landscapes |
Paul Ben Haim, Composer
ARC Ensemble Paul Ben Haim, Composer |
5 Pieces for Piano, Movement: Canzonetta |
Paul Ben Haim, Composer
ARC Ensemble Paul Ben Haim, Composer |
Improvisation and Dance |
Paul Ben Haim, Composer
ARC Ensemble Paul Ben Haim, Composer |
Quintet, for Clarinet and String Quartet |
Paul Ben Haim, Composer
ARC Ensemble Paul Ben Haim, Composer |
Author: Rob Cowan
Frankenburger became Ben-Haim after the lamentable developments in Nazi-dominated Europe prompted his emigration to Palestine (later Israel), which is where the remainder of the works programmed by the ARC players were composed. The Two Landscapes for viola and piano and Improvisation and Dance for violin and piano both date from 1939 and take us on a route where Bartók and Enescu reside somewhere close by, though Ben-Haim’s style has a distinctively lyrical slant all its own. If Bloch evokes the spirit of Jewish prayer and (occasionally) ritual, Ben-Haim more suggests the world of dance and outdoor celebration.
The Clarinet Quintet (1941, rev 1965) melds a highly sophisticated musical design with more than a hint of klezmer-influenced improvisation. By then Ben-Haim was apparently happy that he had consolidated a ‘new style’, and the evidence quietly but firmly extends the language of the genre. Superb playing by the members of the ARC Ensemble, excellent sound and useful booklet-notes by Simon Wynberg.
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