希伯來旋律 (希伯來舞曲/搖籃曲/辛德勒的名單...)
吉爾‧夏漢 小提琴
歐莉‧夏漢鋼琴

Jewish folk music has always played an integral part in Gil and Orli Shahams' lives. This release includes masterpieces by Ernest Bloch, Joseph Achron, and Leo Zeitlin, and as their idiomatic writing for the violin suggests, they all started their musical lives as child prodigy violinists. Also included is music from the wonderful Schindler's List score by John Williams.

The centrepiece of this release comes from the work sharing the album's title Nigunim, commissioned by Gil and Orli from Israeli composer Avner Dorman. Dorman's composition shares the universal appeal of the wordless melodies on which it was named. 'He has created a masterpiece and in my experience everybody who hears the piece falls in love with it they're electrified by it,' Gil explains. Indeed, when he recently toured the work, San Diego Today affirmed that 'it was hard to miss [its] visceral excitement and structural elegance,' the Boston Globe admiring the 'uncommonly intriguing sounds'.

1 JOSEF BONIME  Danse hebraique
2 JOSEPH ACHRON  Hebrew Melody Op.33
3 AVNER DORMAN  Nigunim (Violin Sonata No.3) i Adagio religioso
4 AVNER DORMAN  Nigunim (Violin Sonata No.3) ii Scherzo
5 AVNER DORMAN  Nigunim (Violin Sonata No.3) iii Adagio
6 AVNER DORMAN  Nigunim (Violin Sonata No.3) iv Presto
7 JOSEPH ACHRON  Hebrew Lullaby
8 JOSEPH ACHRON  Hebrew Dance
9 JOHN WILLIAMS  Three Pieces from Schindler's List - Theme from 'Schindler's List', Slowly
10 JOHN WILLIAMS  Three Pieces from Schindler's List - Jewish Town (Krakow Ghetto, Winter '41), Andante
11 JOHN WILLIAMS  Three Pieces from Schindler's List - Remembrances, Moderato
12 LEO ZEITLIN (TRANS. J. ACHRON)  Eli Zion
13 ERNEST BLOCH  Baal Shem - Vidui (Contrition) Un poco lento
14 ERNEST BLOCH  Baal Shem - Nigun (Improvization) Adagio non troppo
15 ERNEST BLOCH  Baal Shem - Simchas Torah (Rejoicing) Allegro giocoso poco lento