Nevertheless, the Rykestrasse Synagogue flourished with standards of fine cantors, choirs and music not only prior to the Holocaust, but also in some diminished capacity after 1945, and through some periods of the Communist era.
Yet, their world was extinguished abruptly with Kristallnacht in 1938 and the Holocaust that followed, and their artistic contributions to Jewish prayer were largely forgotten. The influence of the 19th Century masters continued to develop enormously in the first third of the 20th Century with beautiful prayer music by Jacob Dymont in Berlin, Julius Kaufmann in Nuremberg, Emanuel Kirschner in Munich, Leon Kornitzer in Hamburg, Samuel Lampel in Leipzig, Arno Nadel - originally from Vilna, Koenigsberg, and then - in Berlin, as well as J. During that period, these synagogues produced gifted composers who were equally fluent in both knowledge of synagogue music tradition, as well as worldly music sophistication. During the first three decades of the 20th Century, the Rykestrasse Synagogue was among the most celebrated of Choral Synagogues in Western Europe. All of the music, almost entirely a cappella, was recorded in this magnificently restored edifice (built 1903 – 4, restored 2006 – 7), Germany’s largest synagogue. The album features the young Israeli-born Cantor Azi Schwartz, one of the finest cantors of our time, singing together with the RIAS Kammerchor under the baton of Maestro Ud Joffe in the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Berlin. This extraordinary CD of Jewish Liturgical Music brings you a selection of Choral- Cantorial music with impeccable quality, and it represents the finest in both composition and performance purity.
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