Filmworks XXV City Of Slaughter / Schmatta / Beyond The Infinite

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Omri Mor, John Zorn, Rob Burger.The End of Tradition * The Oath * Modernity * Island/Ghetto * New Choices * Revolution * New Currents * Loss * Hopes and Dreams * The Bund * City of Slaughter * Anti-Semitism/ Pogrom * Pale of Settlement * Requiem * Schmatta * Pins and Needles * Collapse * Hanging by a Thread * Beyond the Infinite The first FilmWorks CD in almost three years (and perhaps the very last in the series) features three radically different musics for solo piano. Commissioned to create music for video installations in Moscow s Museum of Jewish History, Zorn has responded with a poignant Jewish-tinged score performed here by the virtuosic Israeli pianist Omri Mor. Also included is Rob Burger s beautiful solo piano performance of Zorn s landmark composition Beyond the Infinite (from The Goddess) and four rare film cues improvised by Zorn himself for Marc Levin s documentary Schmatta. An intimate and varied collection of music for solo piano.