Conductor: Anat Aharoni

Udiana Choir

Soloists of the JBO

• Bach - Motets "Ich lasse dich nicht", "Jesu, meine Freude", and "Lobet den Herrn" (BWV 1164, 227, and 230)
• Eitan Steinberg - Premiere of the composition "In die salutis"
• Choral music by C. Monteverdi, H. Schütz, and J.M. Bach

Alongside Bach's famous motets and the profound music of the great Baroque composers, Eitan Steinberg's new composition will be premiered. He describes it: "The composition is based on Isaiah chapter 49 in two aspects: the Yemenite melody of the chapter's reading, which serves as inspiration for the violin and cello parts, and the sentences from the chapter performed by the choir in Latin. The well-known phrase 'Your destroyers and devastators will depart from you' appears here in the biblical sense and in the spirit of Isaiah's comforting prophecy: that the destroyers will depart and vanish."
The composition was commissioned by the Udiana Choir and conductor Anat Aharoni, who says: "In each program, we try to integrate an Israeli composition specially invited by the choir for the concert. This allows us to connect with contemporary Israeli music and provides an additional dimension to the concert within the context of the present."

Jerusalem | Saturday 23.3.24 at 12:00 | St. Andrew's Church (The Scotish)