Da Vinci Classics announces Mizmor, a debut album by pianist, composer and improviser Ido Ramot, planned for September 2027. His own music forms the centre of a programme that also includes Erwin Schulhoff, Paul Ben-Haim and two improvisations.

A pianist who composes and improvises encounters musical form from several directions. A written passage can be revised and returned to; an improvised phrase must find its continuation in the moment. For Ido Ramot, these practices belong to a shared musical life, shaped by classical repertoire, jazz and his Jewish and Middle Eastern heritage.

His forthcoming debut album, Mizmor, gives that relationship a specific programme. Three original compositions, Olive Branch, Messiah and Banishing Darkness, stand alongside Schulhoff’s Five Études de Jazz and Ben-Haim’s Melody and Variations, Op. 42. Two improvisations take Im Nin’Alu and Shalom Aleichem as their points of departure.

Schulhoff’s movement titles bring several kinds of dance into the pianist’s field of attention: Charleston, Blues, Chanson and Tango precede a toccata on Zez Confrey’s Kitten on the Keys. The étude becomes a meeting place for rhythmic character, virtuosity and the sharply defined gestures of a musical idiom.

Ben-Haim’s work follows another path. The composer described its origin in a small melody written for children, whose expressive possibilities grew as he developed the variations. Simplicity gradually gives way to a more forceful and searching character before the theme returns. That account offers a useful perspective on the album’s concern with transformation: familiar material can disclose unexpected possibilities through sustained attention.

Ramot’s own compositions and improvisations bring the question into the present. In his account of the project, composed structures leave room for spontaneous passages, while improvisation allows inherited melodies to enter a new musical narrative. The programme has been developed around these connections, with Ramot’s work providing its principal point of reference.

Mizmor is planned for release by Da Vinci Classics in September 2027. Further recording details will be announced as production progresses.

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