Exclusive: Russian and Ukrainian soloists play ‘Jerusalem’ for Bring Them Home

Some of the best known musicians in the Russian and Ukrainian diaspora have joined forces to play Naomi Shemer’s Jerusalem the Gold’.

The 35 are playing in support of the global campaign to secure the release of 238 hostages held by the murderous Hamas in Gaza.

You see the video here first.

The list of musicians’ is a soloists who’s who:

The orchestra:
violins
Nadia Artamonova, Alena Baeva, Petr Bobrovskiy, Boris Brovtsyn, Benjamin Marquise Gilmore, Ilya Gringolts, Lev Iomdin, Tania Koychurenko, Alissa Margulis, Roman Mints, Sergey Ostrovsky, Alexander Pavlovsky, Aylen Pritchin, Philippe Quint, Alexandra Raikhlina, Patrick Savage, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Dmitry Udovychenko, Polina Yehudin, Igor Yuzefovich

violas
Misha Berkut, Sofia Lebed, Mikhail Rudoy, Maxim Rysanov, Dana Zemtsov

cellos
Kristine Blaumane, Yakov Kashin, Dóra Kokas, Mischa Maisky, Felix Nemirovsky, Dmitrii Prokofiev, Evgeny Tonkha, Kyril Zlotnikov

basses
Kirill Baykov, Noam Massarik

Heaven bless them all.

Here’s the composer’s own version: