Presents
Solomon Rosowsky
Fantastic Dance on Hebrew Themes for Piano Trio, Op.6
Solomon Rosowsky (1878-1962) was born in the Latvian city of Riga, then part of Russia, to a Jewish family with a strong musical tradition. He studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Liadov and Rimsky Korsakov. In Leipzig, he studied conducting with Artur Nikisch and after graduating worked as a director of a Jewish art theater. He eventually returned to Riga where he founded a Jewish Conservatory around 1920. Subsequently he moved to Palestine where he taught for a number of years before emmigrating to the United States where he remained teaching at a number of schools. Most of his output is related to Jewish folk melodies in one form or another.
The Fantastic Dance was composed in 1907 and was based on a Hebrew Folksong which Rosowsky knew from his studies of the researches of Susman Kisselgof, perhaps the leading ethnologist on the subject of Jewish folk melodies at the time. It opens with a long recitativ in the cello, followed by the violin, which recalls a cantor singing. The lively dance follows in free form. (Our soundbite starts here)
Here is a marvelous medium length work perfect where something shorter than a full length piano trio is needed.
Parts: $19.95
