Great arrangement! My synagogue choir sang it very often and I sang the Chazzanut quite often. There is also a good Sulzler arrangement and I have my own as well, when it is recorded next, I will upload it.
Lewandowski was the "big Dog" in Berlin, whilst Sulzer was "big Dog" in Vienna. Great guys!!
There is a nice part of the "Alte Synagogue" in the Oranienburgerstraße in Berlin, which today is a a museum, that is dedicated to Lewandowski!!
Not that I want to be a critic here, If you like Catholic, Christian, influence on Jewish tunes that's beautiful. If not, which is where I'm at. That sounds way too much like Catholic music. But that's me, I'm a traditionalist. That's not a criticism of anyone personally, I just like my traditional chanting. I know Catholic music, I was raised in a Catholic neighborhood. Ive been to Catholic churches many, many times. That sounds just like a Catholic church to me.
Not really, it's just Jewish music coming into the feeling of the harmonies and techniques of the Romantic period of music. But I like virtually every style of Jewish music, to whit, to whit.
Ok we disagree... I'm not sure if you've ever been to a Catholic worship service? I have, i wouldn't be able to tell the difference if i walked in on that tune. The instrumental and style there is not traditionally Jewish anything, but I'm done, I don't want to offend my friend
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