Itzhak Perlman is one of the greatest violinists today, known all over the world. And within the Jewish community, Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot shares a similar level of respect and fame. So it's fitting that the two of them decided to make a CD together. PT host Fred Child spoke with Perlman and Helfgot recently about the project. Today, in honor of the beginning of Rosh Hashanah on Sunday, we'll hear highlights from that interview and their new CD, Eternal Echoes.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Edward Elgar: Elegy for Strings
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon, Op. 32
Todd Palmer, clarinet, Dennis Godburn, bassoon
Music@Menlo, Atherton, California
Claude Debussy: Les Soirs Illumines par l'Ardeur du Charbon (Evenings Illuminated by Burning Coals)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
The BBC Proms, London, England
Claude Debussy: Masques
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
The BBC Proms, London, England
Abraham Goldfaden: Shoyfer Shell Moshiakh (Ram's Horn of the Messiah)
Itzhak Perlman, violin; Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, cantor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ballet Music from Idomeneo re di Creta, K. 367
The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Kristian Bezuidenhout, director
Schwetzingen Festival, Schwetzingen, Germany
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Andante in B-flat for Oboe and Orchestra
Albrecht Mayer, oboe, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Hour 2
Ernest Bloch: Prayer (from Jewish Life)
Lynn Harrell, cello, Bruno Canino, piano
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64
Nikolaj Znaider, violin, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly, conductor
The BBC Proms, London, England
Roger Quilter: O Mistress Mine, from Three Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6
Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone, Llyr Williams, piano
Verbier Festival and Academy, Verbier, Switzerland
Oliver Knussen: Ophelia's Last Dance
Huw Watkins, piano
The BBC Proms, London, England
Ernest Bloch: Nigun, No. 2 from Baal Shem, Three Pictures of Chassidic Life
Julia Fischer, violin, Milana Chernyavska, piano
Castle, Salem, Germany
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