The German composer Max Bruch was, like many of his Romantic-era contemporaries, rather keen on travelling around Europe. Kol Nidrei, his warm and richly evocative work for cello and orchestra, was ...

When cellist Lynn Harrell would play “Kol Nidre” at his synagogue on Yom Kippur, he felt more than the notes and the melody. It was through the music that he discovered he wanted to become a Jew. “It ...

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For cellist Robert Deutsch, the pleading and mournful melody of the Kol Nidre prayer has resonated throughout his life. As part of the High Holy Day services in the synagogue he attended as he ...

Written against a background of growing 20th-century antisemitism, Ernest Bloch's music is deeply rooted in Jewish tradition and spirituality. Natalie Clein, in a sleeve note for her new recording of ...

Schelomo BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Natalie Clein, Cello Ernest Bloch, Composer Ilan Volkov, Conductor From Jewish Life Ilan Volkov, Conductor Natalie Clein, Cello BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra ...

I will sit alongside another former United Synagoguer (Cockfosters & North Southgate), and – clutching our tan, crocodile skin Routledge machzorim – we will reminisce about when Kol Nidrei really was ...

Whoever you are, whatever your year has been, the community proclaims: Anu matirin lehitpallel im ha-avaryanim. Tonight, we permit ourselves to pray together. Next Wednesday evening, Jews across the ...

Schelomo Michael Posner, Cello Bern Symphony Orchestra Katharina Müllner, Conductor Kol Nidrei Michael Posner, Cello Bern Symphony Orchestra Katharina Müllner, Conductor Konzertstück Michael Posner, ...