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New Jewish Music, Vol. 3 - Azrieli Music Prizes features the world premiere recordings of works by composer Keiko Devaux, 2020 Laureate of The Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music, and composer Yotam Haber, 2020 Laureate, The Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music. The album also features works by Yitzhak Yedid, 2020 Laureate, the Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music and composer Pierre Mercure. These wonderful works are performed by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne under the direction of Lorraine Vaillancourt, with soloists Sharon Azrieli and Krisztina Szab�. The Nouvel Ensemble Moderne is a chamber orchestra of 15 musicians that performs in Quebec, Canada and internationally. Lorraine Vaillancourt is it's founder and musical director and Normand Forget, artistic director.

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Friedrich Kuhlau's legacy in his lifetime was as a significant composer of music for the flute, the favored instrument of gentlemen amateurs in the early nineteenth century. In his unfinished biography of 1804-1805, the great German Romantic Jean Paul wrote that the flute was a "magic baton, which changes one's internal world, when it is touched by it; it is a divining rod plumbing the depths of the soul." Kuhlau is best known for the masterpieces which are the Grand Sonata for Pianoforte and Flute Obbligato, Op. 71 & Op. 83. The great composer Johannes Brahms was so impressed with the sonatas that he wrote to Clara Schumann in 1854 expressing a wish to learn the flute solely so he could perform Kuhlau's works along with Clara at the piano. These are interpreted with flair and brio by flautist Mika Putterman, known for her beautiful sound and expressive playing, and Erin Helyard, virtuoso of he harpsichord and fortepiano.

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Christmas Greatest Songs Vol. 2