Concert with works for oboe and piano by German-Jewish and Arab composers from Israel and salon talk
Juri Vallentin
, oboe
Prof. Jascha Nemtsov, pianoand moderation
To mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, Jascha Nemtsov and Juri Vallentin present a program of works by Israeli composers for oboe and piano. It is a repertoire that is hardly known to the German public.
Most of the authors, including Paul Ben-Haim, Josef Tal, Karel Salmon and Haim Alexander, came from Germany and had to flee to Palestine after 1933. The works she created there document her search for a special soundscape in the land of Israel. Many of them tried to combine oriental elements – especially from Arabic and Jewish-Yemeni music folklore – with European musical forms.
The Arab-Israeli composer Habib Hassan Touma was also internationally renowned as an ethnomusicologist and author of the standard work “The Music of the Arabs”. His composition “Samai” is inspired by traditional genres of classical Arabic music.