🎶 The Jewish Soul (Baltimore run)
“THE JEWISH SOUL”
Powerful Works by Jewish Composers and Others Influenced by Jewish Liturgy & Klezmer
📍 Asheville & Hendersonville, NC | October 16–19, 2025
South African cellist Jacques-Pierre Malan returns to Asheville just a few weeks after our thrilling “Cello Mania” program to perform this beautiful and powerful program of music that explores the Jewish soul through the cello. We will perform works by Jewish composers including Ernest Bloch and David Popper as well as other composers who were inspired by the Jewish liturgy such as Max Bruch. We will also perform some very fun Klezmer-inspired music. You will not want to miss it!
First Half
Felix Mendelssohn – Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 in D Major, Op. 58
– III. Adagio
– IV. Molto allegro e vivace
Max Bruch – Kol Nidrei, Op. 47
David Popper – Tarantella, Op. 33
Traditional Hebrew Melody – Adon Olam
(arranged version, melody only; cello part optional)
Traditional Yiddish Song – Yossel, Yossel
(also known as “Joseph, Joseph,” by Samuel Steinberg and Nellie Casman)
Intermission
Second Half
Ernest Bloch – Nigun (No. 2 from “Baal Shem” Suite)
(Alternative option: Bloch – Meditation hébraïque)
Ernest Bloch – Prayer (No. 1 from “From Jewish Life”)
Marc Lavry – Suite for Cello and Piano (Hebrew Suite)
Traditional / arr. Paul Schoenfield or similar – Five Melodies on Hebrew Themes
– No. 1 Moyshele, Mayn Freund
– No. 2 Oyfn Pripetshik
– No. 5 Charleston
(or just Nos. 2 & 5 if shortened)
Traditional Klezmer Suite – Klezmer Journey
David Popper – Concert-Polonaise, Op. 14
Here is a video of JP and I peforming the Chopin Cello Sonata:
