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I'll bet you can't listen to it just
once. (Daily
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Choral settings which are often beautiful in their fusion of
traditional Jewish idioms and a distinctively modern compositional
sophistication ... Intriguing music of deceptive simplicity ... Subtle,
persuasive and
― quite simply ―
beautiful ... This is a striking collection of choral miniatures. (Glyn
Pursglove,
MusicWeb)
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Serious, well-made pieces. (Alan
Swanson, Fanfare)
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The Year
in Yiddish Song
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Chanukah
comes
early this year for choral Yiddish music lovers.
Thank Mark Zuckerman and the Goldene Keyt Singers for this miracle. The CD
is titled “The Year in Yiddish Song.” (Jewish Journal of Greater Los
Angeles)
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Zuckerman’s arrangements are so
good, they almost sing themselves. The vocal lines are lyrical, the texture
varied, and few are more effective word-painters than Zuckerman. (Transcontinental
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The program here is wonderful stuff, all Zuckerman arrangements or even
originals ... Zuckerman plays with the tune, and brilliantly. In addition to
the pure melody and lyric, there's always something musically interesting
going on to hook you. (Steve Schwartz, Classical CD Review)
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Zuckerman's works are ... highly accessible;
coupled with the detailed program notes, listeners are carefully
guided through some very enjoyable musical metaphors. The Elegy
for Victims of Terrorism, heard on this CD in both its string
quartet and string orchestra version, is quite moving and makes
the album worthwhile on its own. (Mike
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On the Edges
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A vehement and
indeed edgy toccata expanded by extensive cadenza-like improvisations and
fugal interludes… A recalcitrant unity is stretched but never broken, and
Zuckerman’s jouncy main idea is so insistent that all through its clever
transformations it somehow remains faintly on the edge of recognition—a
notion that both Copland and Creston would surely have approved of. (Mark
Lehman,
American Record Guide)
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A brilliant
filtering of … traditional themes and motifs through modernist
devices ... Want List material. (Peter
J. Rabinowitz,
Fanfare)
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On
the Edges has ... stony
clarity ... crossed with some Nancarrow-like motoric character. Bachian
dignity sparks dancing swords with serialism ... demands attention.
(Rob Barnett,
MusicWeb)
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On
the Edges…[has] strong,
exciting rhythm ... Most of all, it impresses as a whole.
(Steve Schwartz,
ClassicalNet)
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An attractive work that explores a variety of moods; it deserves success. (John
France, MusicWeb)
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Zuckerman
has come up with a fresh approach to neo-Classicism that resembles no other
music I know. (Walter
Simmons,
Fanfare)
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Shpatsír
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Interesting, challenging passages
for all sections of the orchestra. This is good program material. (The
Instrumentalist) |
Shir
Kinah/String
Quartet 2nd Movement
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[An] engaging salute to Rutgers University ... superb recording. (Ira
Novoselsky, Band World) |
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