Programs
Programme suggestions for solo concerts, chamber music or with choir.
The suggestions are flexible and additional works can always be added. The following are selected examples of works by Jewish-German composers alongside works of their non-Jewish contemporaries.
Orchestral programme I
Paul Ben-Haim Kabbalat Shabbat – for cantor, choir and orchestra
Felix Mendelssohn – 42nd Psalm – for soprano, choir and orchestra
Orchestral programme II
Lukas Foss The Song of Songs – for soprano and orchestra
Alban Berg – Seven Early Songs – for soprano and orchestra
Arnold Schönberg – Four Songs – for voice and orchestra
Orchestral programme III
Franz Schubert Miriam’s Song of Victory – for soprano and orchestra
Ernest Bloch – Two Pslams – for soprano and orchestra
Achron Pragim – for soprano and orchestra
Chamber Music
Paul Hindemith Serenades – for soprano and sting quartet
Ernst Toch The Chinese Flute – for soprano and 14 instruments
Samuel Adler Nuptial Scene – for soprano and seven instruments (and other songs by Samuel Adler for a smaller orchestra or for piano and voice)
Choral programme I
Franz Schubert – Psalm 23 – for woman’s choir
Mendelssohn – Psalm 55 – for soprano, choir and organ
Arnold Schönberg – Psalm 130 – for choir (six voices)
Heinrich Schalit – Shabbat liturgy – for cantor, choir and organ
Choral programme II
Jewish liturgy – for cantor, choir and organ
Paul Ben-Haim Kabbalat Shabbat
The Eisenstadt Project
The latest project of soprano Sheffer is dedicated to the Polish-Jewish composer David Eisenstadt, who was murdered in1942 in the Warsaw Ghetto. She rescues Eistenstadt’s music, his highly emotional songs and synagogal compositions – which defy geographical boundaries – from oblivion and gives them new life. Alongside works by Eistenstadt, this programme can include works by his contemporaries Kurt Weill, Paul Ben-Haim, Max Janowski or Samuel Adler.
Music for cantor, choir and organ/piano.