A concept album with personal insight into pre-war Jewish life

A concept album with personal insight into pre-war Jewish life

‘The Jerusalem Quartet has assembled a well-contrasted array of music’

Freya Parr

Published: July 23, 2019 at 10:27 am

‘The Jerusalem Quartet has assembled a well-contrasted array of music’

The Yiddish Cabaret Korngold: String Quartet No.2; Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet; Desyatnikov: Yiddish Hila Baggio (soprano); Jerusalem Quartet Harmonia Mundi HMM 902631 59:50 mins

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Freya Parr

Digital Editor and Staff Writer, BBC Music Magazine

Freya Parr is BBC Music Magazine's digital editor and staff writer, editing and writing on all styles of music across both the website and print magazine. She has also written for titles including the Guardian, Circus Journal, Frankie and Suitcase Magazine, and runs The Noiseletter, a fortnightly arts and culture publication. Freya's main areas of interest and research lie in 20th-century and contemporary music. She's a regular sea shanty singer, folk obsessive and occasional flautist, pianist, organist and musical theatre director.
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