Rabih Abou-Khalil: Trouble In Jerusalem

Ethno Jazz/World Jazz/Modern Jazz
premiera polska: 2010-11-23
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
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Editor's Info:
Lebanese composer Rabih Abou-Khalil was the natural choice for German Television Channel ZDF, in cooperation with Arte and the Munich Film Museum, when they decided to put new symphonic music to a German silent fi lm, set in Jerusalem. The 1922 classic fi lm Nathan the Wise, is a dramatization of German writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing s 1779 lyrical drama; a parable celebrating religious tolerance and a plea for humanity. The story takes place during the Third Crusade in 1192 A.D. and chronicles a short-lived moment of co-existence between the world s three foremost monotheist religions. The fi lm s producer, Wagowski and his acclaimed director Manfred Noa, stuck closely to Lessing s plot in their cinematic interpretation of this classical literary work. The outcome was political cinema, and one of the earliest fi lm (s) for humanity . Intensifying nazism during the Weimar Republic however, and Hitler s imminent rise to power, were not receptive to anything with semitic sympathies. The fi lm was banned and subsequently all copies were destroyed. Thought to be lost forever, the Munich Film Museum was delighted to discover the sole surviving copy in 1996 in Russian fi lm archives in Moscow. Rabih Abou-Khalil is no stranger to civil and religious discord. Growing up in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war and originating from the Bekaa Valley, the land of milk and honey , he has witnessed both the destructiveness of intolerance of religious discord and, in a parallel manner to Lessing s drama, also observed the beauty in times of cooperation.

muzycy:
Rabih Abou-Khalil: oud
Michel Godard: tuba, serpent
Jarrod Cagwin: frame drums

The German Youth Orchestra (BJO)
conducted by Frank Strobel

Soloists:
Tobias Feldmann: violin
Sarina Zickgraf: viola
Sophie Notte: cello

utwory:
1. Jerusalem 8:53
2. Lament 16:25
3. Gerusalemme Liberata 12:10
4. Once Upon A Dervish 12:10
5. Saladin And Nathan The Wise 7:33
6. A Prayer For Tolerance 2:17

total time - 59:28
wydano: 2010-12-06
nagrano: October 18, 2009 - October 23, 2009

more info: www.enjarecords.de