L'dor Vador by Cantor Azi Schwartz of Park Avenue Synagogue
From generation to generation we celebrate our past and invest in the future through music. The Park Avenue Synagogue Music Center is proud to continue the synagogue’s long tradition of commissioning liturgical works by inviting accomplished composers to write for our services. Most of the pieces on this album were composed in the past year. Our worship evolves with new liturgical settings that accommodate the musical sensibilities of our generation. From innovative instrumentations to a novel pace, from using Sephardi expressions to singing prayers in English, we build on our heritage and draw meaning from it. The rich liturgical music featured in our services offers people of all ages and tastes different ways to engage in prayer as part of a vibrant and dynamic community. We are grateful to our community, to our talented and dedicated staff, and to the gifted musicians who partner in the sacred mission of writing the score for us and for future generations. We hope you will enjoy the melodies on this album and sing along, so that our music will resonate within the walls of our synagogue and beyond.
Cantor Azi Schwartz
Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove
Art Penn, Chairman
Melvin Schweitzer, Chair of Music Committee
September 2016 ~ Elul 5776
Tracklist
| 1. | Halleluyah | 2:23 |
| 2. | Azamra | 2:16 |
| 3. | L’dor Va-dor (Eldor) | 1:28 |
| 4. | Shabbat Ha-malkah | 1:47 |
| 5. | Ilu Finu | 2:29 |
| 6. | V’yaseim L’kha Shalom | 1:55 |
| 7. | L’dor Va-dor (Weiss) | 1:40 |
| 8. | Mi Shebeirakh | 1:29 |
| 9. | Hamakom Y’naheim | 1:44 |
| 10. | Hayom T’amtzeinu | 2:00 |
| 11. | L’dor Va-dor (Gwon) | 2:52 |
| 12. | Shir Hadash | 2:44 |
| 13. | Oseh Shalom | 2:54 |
| 14. | Kol Adonai | 5:55 |
| 15. | Mimkom’kha | 2:04 |
| 16. | Bar’khu | 3:20 |
| 17. | Shalom Aleikhem | 3:08 |
| 18. | L’kha Dodi (Boino) | 3:33 |
| 19. | Y’varekh’kha | 3:26 |
| 20. | L'kha Dodi (Tedesco) | 12:00 |
| 21. | Ein Keloheinu | 1:38 |
| 22. | L’kha Dodi (Remix) | 4:32 |
Credits
Colin Fowler: Music Director & Pianist
Vocalists
Cantor Shira Lissek, tracks 8, 13, 18
Cantor Rachel Brook, track 2
Eliana Light, track 6
Abigail Orlinsky: Child soloist on track 7
Cantor Ben Ellerin: Conductor on tracks 1, 7,
9, 10, 11, 15, 19, 21
David Enlow: Organist & Tonmeister
CHOIR
Soprano:
Laura Inman
Emily Moore
Elisa Singer
Emily Werne
Alto:
Donna Breitzer
Yonah Gershator
Jonathan May
Leah Wool
Tenor:
Jhas Agosto
Donald Meineke
Riley Soter
Jason Weisinger
Bass:
Edmund Lilly
Richard Lippold
Michael Maliakel
David Schmidt
INSTRUMENTALISTS
David Cinquegrana, guitar
Danny Weller, bass
Alex Wyatt, percussion
Karen Bogardus, flute on track 2
Andrew Zinsmeister, guitar and mandolin on
tracks 2, 4, 10
F.A.M.E.’S. Project
Conductor: Dzijan Emin
Sound engineer: Georgii Hristovski
Protools engineer: Atanas Babaleski
Stage manager: Riste Trajkovski
Production manager: Gil Smuskowitz
Recording engineer and audio editing: Doug Yoel
Mastering: Alan Silverman
Cover art:: Asaf Lewkowitz
Text editor: Marga Hirsch
Recorded
July 19, 20, and 21, 2016, at Park Avenue Synagogue
License
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Cantor Azi Schwartz is the Senior Cantor of Park Avenue Synagogue in New York, and is a world-renowned vocal performer and recording artist whose music reaches Jewish and interfaith audiences internationally.
Azi has performed at Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden; on PBS and on Richard Gere’s movie 'Norman'; and for Pope Francis.
He has released nine albums of Jewish liturgical music.