A disc published\u00a0 in 1994 by Arion, in the MFA (Musique Fran\u00e7aise d\u2019Aujourd\u2019hui).<\/p>\n
With Sharon Cooper (soprano), Micha\u00ebl Lonsdale, Bernard Freyd, Michel Hermon and Jean N\u00e9groni (reciters), the choral Madrigal of Bordeaux (Mezzo-Soprano : Anna Parus, choral conductor : Eliane Lavail) and the ensemble 2E2M conducted by Paul M\u00e9fano.<\/p>\n
This historical recording was made in 1992 on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Darius Milhaud<\/a> (1892-1974).<\/p>\n Ani maamin<\/a> is the latest work of this very productive composer (443 works in his catalogue !) who defined himself as a \u201cFrench man born in Aix of Israelite confession\u201d. This cantata, put on a text by Elie Wiesel, who was deported in Auschwitz at the age of 15, describes the horror of the concentration camps and the martyr of Jews (the father killed in front of the son, the child strangled in his mother\u2019s arms\u2026). But it is also\u00a0 the expression of a faith opening on eternal questions, which each one of us try to resolve in his own way\u00a0: responsibility of a God, responsibility.<\/p>\n \u00ab Ani maamin beviat ha-Mashiah \u00bb means \u00ab I believe in the coming of the Messiah \u00bb. On Darius Milhaud\u2019s sheet music, we can read these few lines : \u00ab It is one of the thirteen principle of faith stated by Maimonides. It\u2019s also a song that, in camps and ghettos, pious and obstinate Jews chose as an anthem. Their faith, instead of comforting soothe the survivors, only confuse them. Affirmation and provocation at the same time, it cannot bring worry. However\u2026 \u00bb.<\/p>\n Learn more on Darius Milhaud and the cantata Ani maamin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n