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RAVEL – Kaddisch (No.1 of ‘Deux Mélodies Hebraïques’) – SOLO CELLO (or Solo Clarinet or Violin) AND STRING ORCHESTRA

Other Identification:
This music by Maurice Ravel is some of the most beautiful Jewish music ever composed, and is proof that Ravel was well acquainted with this style of music. They were first performed in June 1914 by Alvina Alvi (who commissioned them) with Ravel himself at the piano, just a month or so before the outbreak of the first World War – is the profundity of the music in part ominously connected to what was about to unfold on the global scene? Whatever the circumstances, Ravel then orchestrated the songs within a couple of years after the end of the Great War. The original piano accompaniment is simple yet effective, often repeatedly stroking chords of a harmonic nature to create a climate of sublime clouds upon which the melody is free to express itself. Along with the Shema and Amidah, the Kaddish is one of the most important and central prayers in the Jewish liturgy.

Movements or sections:
Kaddish is the first of two songs which form his cycle named Deux Mélodies Hébraïques.

Instrumentation:
SOLO CELLO AND STRING ORCHESTRA
or SOLO CLARINET (Bb) or SOLO VIOLIN in place of Cello

Downloads of 2 PDFs:
[1 – General Score and all Soloist parts
[2 – All individual Orchestral parts

Approximate difficulty: MEDIUM

Dedicatee of this presentation (if applicable):
This musical creation was originally written as a request from violinist-conductor Hernando Deheza and the ‘Orquesta de cámara Xavier’ (Navarre, Spain)

Links (Audio – Visual), and known performances given by:
** This arrangement was performed by the German/Belgium soloist Judith Emert with the Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum (Wroclaw, Poland)

** It was also heard in the concert ‘In Memorian 2015’ in memory of the Holocaust victims and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, in Caracas, Venezuela by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela.

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