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Bashrav was commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation and premiered by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players in March 2004; this is the first commercially released recording. In his note accompanying a video of this Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performance currently posted on YouTube, musicologist Assaf Shelleg has written: “Bashrav, or more accurately Peshrev, is a musical form that emigrated to Turkish classical music from Iran. Its Western counterpart would be the Rondo, whose cyclic structure includes a refrain and intermittent couplets. The refrain in Olivero’s Bashrav is heard at the opening of Olivero’s work, on the viola, yet as the work progresses both refrain and couplets infiltrate each other. Olivero was not the first composer to use this cyclical form; two of her former composition professors had employed Peshrevs in the 1950s – Abel Erlich’s Bashrav for Solo Violin is perhaps the best known.”
Betty Olivero (b. 1954, Tel Aviv) is Professor of Composition at Bar-Ilan University. She studied at the Tel Aviv Rubin Academy of Music, later studying with Jacob Druckman and Gilbert Amy at Yale, and with Luciano Berio at Tanglewood and in Italy. In Israel, Olivero has received the Emet Prize, Landau Award, Prime Minister’s Prize, Rosenblum Award, and the ACUM Prize for lifetime achievement. In the U.S., she was awarded commissions from the Fromm and Koussevitzky Foundations. Olivero’s works are published by Universal Music Publishing Classical (Casa Ricordi Music Milano in Italy) and the Israel Music Institute (IMI). Recordings of her music have been released by Angel, Beit Hatefutsoth, ECM, Folkways, IMI, Koch International, Plane, and Ricordi, among other labels.
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from Composing Israel: The First Three Generations,
released July 23, 2023
Members of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Lahav Shani, conductor
Boaz Meirovitch, flute; Jonathan Hadas, clarinet/bass clarinet; Yigal Meltzer, trumpet; Ziv Stein, percussion; Yael Kareth, piano/celesta; Ari Vilhjálmsson, Saida Bar-Lev, violins; Matan Noussimovitch, viola; Linor Katz, cello
