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PAUL BEN-HAIM
Music for violoncello · Cello Concerto · Three Songs · Two Landscapes · Sonata
Ofer Canetti · Andrei Gologan · Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen Friederike Kienle
Ofer Canetti · Andrei Gologan · Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen Friederike Kienle
C5556 [10/2025]
PC: 21
UPC: 845221055565
Paul Ben-Haim ranks among those leading Israeli composers from his generation. Born Paul Frankenburger in Munich he studied composition with Friedrich Klose and served as an assistant conductor to both Bruno Walter and Hans Knappertsbusch. His extensive catalogue comprises works in all the primary genres apart from opera. Music for or with cello features prominently throughout Ben-Haim’s output. Following emigration, he increasingly advocated a specifically Jewish national expression while his own compositions favoured a late-Romantic vein redolent of – though by no means indebted (unlike other contemporaries) to – Ernest Bloch and frequently informed by Middle-Eastern overtones.
