Composers: Paul Ben-Haim
Compositions: Violin works 
Performers: Itamar Zorman v, Amy Yang p, BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Philippe Bach
Catalogue Number: BIS BIS2398 (SACD)

Born in 1897 to secular Jewish parents, composer Paul Frankenburger fled persecution in Nazi Germany in 1933. However, unlike the majority at the time, he moved east to Palestine, changing his name to Ben-Haim. In doing so, he became a leader in the so-called ‘Mediterranean’ style combining his post-Mahlerian influences with Jewish and Eastern European folk idioms to create an attractive palette which reached its maturity in the Violin Concerto of 1960.

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