{"id":162,"date":"2021-01-06T14:56:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T13:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordpress.harpandco.be\/?p=162"},"modified":"2021-10-24T19:47:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T17:47:40","slug":"jewish-composers-the-escapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Composers: The Escapers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I fell in love with Rachel Talitman&rsquo;s playing of Berthold Goldschmidt&rsquo;s late Fantasy for Oboe, Cello and Harp, a work that dates from the exiled composers 1980s rediscovery after decades of being ignored. The composer&rsquo;s mature voice is confidence incarnate and the harp is given a voice to match the two other instruments.<\/p><p>Talitman pairs this exquisite work with a sonata by the Dutch-Jewish composer Samuel Dresden, new to me, and several works by the Munich exile Paul Ben Haim, who found refuge in Palestine.<\/p><p>His Largamente for harp solo is a fusion of European and near-Eastern sound, written to great effect for the most reticent of instruments. Must be heard (Harp &amp; Co ****).<\/p><cite><strong>Norman Lebrecht 19\/9\/2017 Slipped Disc<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-55.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-55.png 640w, https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-55-300x256.png 300w, https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-55-70x60.png 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"759\" height=\"760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-56.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-56.png 759w, https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-56-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-56-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-56-60x60.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><figcaption>Adrien Eble, Johannes Burghoff, Rachel Talitman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"487\" height=\"646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-57.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-57.png 487w, https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-57-226x300.png 226w, https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-57-370x491.png 370w, https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-57-45x60.png 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><figcaption>Pierre-Henri Xuereb, Rachel Talitman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fell in love with Rachel Talitman&rsquo;s playing of Berthold Goldschmidt&rsquo;s late Fantasy for Oboe, Cello and Harp, a work that dates from the exiled composers 1980s rediscovery after decades of being ignored. The composer&rsquo;s mature voice is confidence incarnate and the harp is given a voice to match the two other instruments. Talitman pairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-release","tag-chamber-music-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harpandco.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}