On VPR Classical
Music for the High Holidays is a new one-hour program for Rosh Hashanah (which begins at sundown on Sunday the 16th) and Yom Kippur. It includes both traditional and composed music from Jewish services–including a brand new recording of Kol Nidre featuring violinist Itzhak Perlman — as well as concert music based on High Holidays melodies.
Written and hosted by Classics for Kids host Naomi Lewin, Music for the High Holidays also explains a bit about the Jewish new year and its traditions.
Listen to Music For The High Holidays
Jonathan Miller: Shehecheyanu
Chicago A Cappella, conducted by Jonathan Miller
CD: CAC 2006
Jacob Weinberg: String Quartet, Opus 55
Bingham String Quartet
CD: Naxos 8.559457
Max Janowski: Avinu Malkeinu
University of Utah Singers, conducted by Brady Allred
CD: i thank You God for most this amazing day
Ernest Bloch (arr. Christopher Palmer): From Jewish Life: Prayer
Natalie Clein, cello; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ilan Volkov
CD: Hyperion 67910)
Ernest Bloch: Yih’yu l’ratzon (May the Words of My Mouth)
Rinat Choir, conducted by Gary Bertini
CD: IDC 5048
Darius Milhaud: Etudes on Liturgical Themes from Comtat Venaissin
Juilliard String Quartet
CD: Naxos 8.559451
Salamone Rossi: Barechu et Adonai ham’vorach and Adon Olam (plus instrumentals)
Boston Camerata, conducted by Joel Cohen
CD: HMA 1951021
Traditional, arr. Hankus Netsky: Kol Nidre
Itzhak Perlman, violin; Cantor Yitzhak Meir Helfgot;
Hankus Netsky, piano; Pete Rushefsky, tsimbi
CD: Sony 542006
John Zorn: Kol Nidre
Ilya Kaler and Perrin Young, violin; George Taylor, viola; Steven Doane, cello
CD: Naxos 8.559451
Traditional: Ashamnu
Cantor Benzion Miller; Schola Hebraica, conducted by Neil Levin
CD: Naxos 8.559428-29
Ben Steinberg: Shalom Rav
Cantor Ida Rae Cahana;
students from the Hebrew Union College School of Sacred Music, conducted
by Samuel Adler; Aaron Miller, organ
TMP 950025
Traditional: Shalom Rav
Rachel Van Voorhees, harp
CD: Centaur 2317