Video highlights from the world premiere performance
Click here for older demo clips including an interview with Sandra Goldberg and Rabbi Andrew Bossov on the occasion of the first performance of some of the songs from “JUDAH JUDAH” in 2004.
The video clips are taken from the DVD of the premiere and were uploaded to YouTube.
Helmut Vogel is featured as narrator in all of the clips with narration; Monica Buckland conducts the chorus and instrumental ensemble; Robin Mueller is the director and choreographer for the ensemble.
Featuring Helmut Vogel as narrator; Julie-anne Smith and Carl Hieger as gospel soloists; Beat Dähler at the piano; and Jesús Gaudarrama on percussion.
Conductor: Monica Buckland.
Chorus:
Sarah Cotton, Elfi Roth, Joke Rutjes, Corinne M. Schmuki (soprano); Silvia Salvisberg, Veronika Wirz (alto); Jürg Breitenstein, Arnaud Lemant, Beat Schmid (tenor); Wolfgang Ruf, Schlomo Stokvis and Andreas Weigel (bass).
Pictures of Jerusalem: Dan Rubinstein
Dreydl Song
Featuring Helmut Vogel, narrator with Brita Achberger as Rachel and Gerald Karni as Benjamin. Beat Dähler, piano.
Conductor: Monica Buckland.
Chorus:
Sarah Cotton, Elfi Roth, Joke Rutjes, Corinne M. Schmuki, Julie-anne Smith (soprano); Silvia Salvisberg, Veronika Wirz (alto); Jürg Breitenstein, Arnaud Lemant, Beat Schmid (tenor); Wolfgang Ruf, Schlomo Stokvis and Andreas Weigel (bass).
Spinning the Magic Dreydl
Featuring Helmut Vogel, narrator with Brita Achberger as Rachel
and Gerald Karni as Benjamin.
Instrumental ensemble:
Philip A. Draganov, violin;
Ivo Schmid, contrabass;
Monika Weder, clarinet;
Jesús Gaudarrama, percussion.
Conductor: Monica Buckland.
Pictures of Jerusalem: Dan Rubinstein
Special thanks to Roswitha Hennessy for creating the magic dreydl!
Olympus
Featuring Randal Turner, baritone as Apelles.
With Helmut Vogel, narrator.
Instrumental ensemble:
Conductor: Monica Buckland
Violin I: Sandra Goldberg
Violin II: Philip A. Draganov
Viola: Marie-Luise Hermann
Violoncello: Pi-Chin Chien
Contrabass: Ivo Schmid
Apelles’ Decree / Kadosh / Desecration Song
Featuring Randal Turner, baritone, as Apelles and Carl Hieger, tenor, as Mattathias, the Hasmonean priest. With Helmut Vogel, narrator.
Instrumental ensemble:
Conductor: Monica Buckland
Violin I: Sandra Goldberg
Violin II: Philip A. Draganov
Viola: Marie-Luise Hermann
Violoncello: Pi-Chin Chien
Contrabass: Ivo Schmid
Sh’ma
Featuring Mirjam Sutter, solo dancer and Sandra Goldberg, solo violin.
(with special thanks to the Municipal Archives of Worms, Germany for permission to use their images of a Torah scroll burned during the Holocaust in 1938)
Sabbath Prayer
Featuring Hitomi Kutsuzawa (alto) as Chana,
with Beat Dähler, organ.
Be Brave
Featuring Hitomi Kutsuzawa (alto) as Chana; Randal Turner (baritone) as King Antiochus IV and Gerald Karni as Chana’s seventh son together with Beat Dähler (organ) and the “Judah Judah” instrumental ensemble.
Instrumental ensemble:
Conductor: Monica Buckland
Violin I: Sandra Goldberg
Violin II: Philip A. Draganov
Viola: Marie-Luise Hermann
Violoncello: Pi-Chin Chien
Contrabass: Ivo Schmid
Organ: Beat Dähler
Chana’s Dance
Featuring Mirjam Sutter, solo dancer with the “Judah Judah” instrumental ensemble.
Instrumental ensemble:
Conductor: Monica Buckland
Violin I: Sandra Goldberg
Violin II: Philip A. Draganov
Viola: Marie-Luise Hermann
Violoncello: Pi-Chin Chien
Contrabass: Ivo Schmid
Tambourine: Jesús Gaudarrama
Judah, Fight!
Piano: Beat Dähler
Conductor: Monica Buckland.
Chorus: Julie-anne Smith (soprano, lead); Sarah Cotton, Elfi Roth, Joke Rutjes, Corinne M. Schmuki (soprano); Silvia Salvisberg, Veronika Wirz (alto); Jürg Breitenstein, Carl Hieger, Arnaud Lemant, Beat Schmid (tenor); Wolfgang Ruf, Schlomo Stokvis and Andreas Weigel (bass).
Judah’s Song
Featuring Carl Hieger, tenor, as Judah the Maccabee.
With Helmut Vogel, narration.
String ensemble:
Sandra Goldberg, violin 1;
Philip A. Draganov, violin 2;
Marie-Luise Hermann, viola;
Pi-Chin Chien, violoncello;
Ivo Schmid, contrabass.
Men’s chorus: Jürg Breitenstein, Arnaud Lemant, Beat Schmid (tenor); Wolfgang Ruf, Schlomo Stokvis and Andreas Weigel (bass).
Conductor: Monica Buckland.
In the Greek Camp
Featuring Felix Haller, Greek soldier (soloist); singers Jürg Breitenstein and Arnaud Lemant; dancers Schlomo Stokvis and Andreas Weigel.
Instrumental ensemble:
Philip A. Draganov, violin;
Ivo Schmid, contrabass;
Monika Weder, clarinet;
Jesús Gaudarrama, percussion.
Conductor: Monica Buckland.
With Helmut Vogel, narrator and Carl Hieger as Judah the Maccabee.
With Helmut Vogel, narrator and Carl Hieger as Judah the Maccabee.
Battle Music
Features Gerald Karni, shofar.
With Sandra Goldberg, violin 1;
Philip A. Draganov, violin 2;
Marie-Louise Herrmann, viola;
Pi-Chin Chien, violoncello;
Monika Weder, clarinet;
Ivo Schmid, contrabass; and
Jesús Gaudarrama, percussion.
Conductor: Monica Buckland.
Or Chadash
Featuring
Carl Hieger, tenor soloist as Judah the Maccabee. With Helmut Vogel, narrator.
Chorus: Sarah Cotton, Elfi Roth, Joke Rutjes, Corinne M. Schmuki, Julie-anne Smith (soprano); Silvia Salvisberg, Veronika Wirz (alto); Jürg Breitenstein, Arnaud Lemant, Beat Schmid (tenor); Wolfgang Ruf, Schlomo Stokvis, Andreas Weigel (bass).
Piano: Beat Dähler. Conductor: Monica Buckland.
Zeh Ha Yom
Featuring Carl Hieger, tenor soloist as Judah the Maccabee.
With Helmut Vogel, narrator.
Chorus:
Sarah Cotton, Elfi Roth, Joke Rutjes, Corinne M. Schmuki, Julie-anne Smith (soprano); Silvia Salvisberg, Veronika Wirz (alto); Jürg Breitenstein, Arnaud Lemant, Beat Schmid (tenor); Wolfgang Ruf, Schlomo Stokvis, Andreas Weigel (bass).
Instrumentalists:
Clarinet: Monika Weder;
Piano: Beat Dähler;
Contrabass: Ivo Schmid;
Accordion: Felix Haller;
Percussion: Jesús Gaudarrama.
Conductor: Monica Buckland
Pictures of Jerusalem: Dan Rubinstein
Hora (Finale)
Featuring the “Judah Judah” chorus with Monika Weder, clarinet; Ivo Schmid, contrabass; Beat Dähler, piano; Felix Haller, accordion; and Jesús Gaudarrama, percussion.
Conductor: Monica Buckland
Pictures of Jerusalem and Hannukiah: Dan Rubinstein
