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The mystery of 5 fingers performing as 10! Imagine hearing melodic tones, harmonic accompaniments, inner voices intertwined, rhythmic flow,.. all while watching the artistic technique of Ostranenie!

How does one hear Judaism in Music? How do you hear reflections of a religion, a culture? At times, composers use symbolic folk songs from generations past, as well as even taking liturgical texts as a basis for impressionistically beautiful melodic statements. Other times, composers may use the connections of numbers and other beliefs surrounding those numerical values to hear stunning and startling musical compositions! The tonal nuances, rhythmic textures, and harmonies all are explored here in the music of composers from Jewish descent.

The distinctive sounds of the Habanera are presented here in the musical ambiance of both its rhythmic and melodic styles. Compositions with these underlying habanera concepts such as in the Spanish Tinge, the Argentinian Tango, the Cuban Tresillo, and the Puerto Rican Danza, all come together in this exciting and invigorating recording!

On hearing the words "Romantic music" one thinks of the great composers of Europe, such as Frederick Chopin and Franz Liszt. This CD explores further along the Musical Pathways of Love, Senderos Musicales de Amor. It includes the composers of the enchanted island of Puerto Rico—Tavarez, Campos, and others—all masters of the style and form known as the Danza. The Danza is one of the most expressive musical forms composed during the Romantic period!

How is it possible that one composer can be so expressive whilst employing the forms and techniques spanning 3 centuries!! That is the Mexican composer Manuel Maria Ponce (composer of Las Mañanitas).

Listen to the influence of Bach and his Baroque forms, the long beautiful melodies incorporating chordal techniques of Brahms from the Romantic era, as well as the tonal color of the Impressionist composer Debussy! 

To sense joy and sorrow, love, water, the flight of the lark, even reflections of light! Experience this in the music of Schumann, Liszt, Debussy, Glinka, Brahms, and Granados.