The Creation: Bereishit set to music

Here's another topical music clip from Beit Knesset Hanassi's very own Max Stern: it's "Creation of the World (Bereshith) for soprano, flute, strings and percussion". The text is based on the words of the Torah (Bereishit 1:1-31 and 2:1-3). In this clip it is performed by the Ashdod Chamber Orchestra conducted by Luis Gorelik. The soloists are Amalia Ishak (soprano) and Avihai Ornoy (flute). 

This recording was made at a live concert at Kibbutz Yavneh nearly 30 years ago, back in 1995. Of this work, music critic Uri Epstein described it as, 

"...an expression of exhilaration and awe in witnessing the phenomenon on creation."

The piece, which is of 20 minutes in duration, is structured in seven variations, each being a day in the process of the world's formation: 1 darkness-light, 2 seas-heaven, 3 land-vegetation, 4 sun-moon-stars, 5 fish-birds, 6 beasts-man, 7 Sabbath.

You can watch and listen to it by clicking here.