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Exils

In this intimate album, violinist Elsa Moatti plunges us into her roots, her "inner geography", to deliver an album imbued with resilience, vibrancy and sensitivity …

Chamber Works by Robert Müller-Hartmann & Frederick Block

The seventh and eighth CDs in the Music in Exile series, Chamber Music by Robert Müller-Hartmann and Chamber Music by Frederick Block, released by Chandos in 2023 and 2024 respectively, introduce us to the unjustly forgotten works of these two Jewish composers, German and Austrian, who emigrated to England and the USA in the 1930s to escape Nazism …

Sefarad in the piano – Toni Costa

Inspired by Judeo-Spanish folk poetry, jazz, early music and the popular rhythms of flamenco, the pianist Toni Costa presents his personal vision of Sephardic melodies on this original album. …

The Wolf and the Lamb – Live at the Shakh

This album by klezmer legend Yale Strom and his band Hot Pstromi was recorded in the synagogue of Holesov, Czech Republic. Research into the lost traditions from the Holesov synagogue is based on oral histories and old manuscripts …

PERPETUEL KLEZMER – DENIS CUNIOT

Along with jazz, Klezmer music became involved in the everlasting movement of evolution and creation of the 1980s. In France, Denis Cuniot took and active part in its rediscovery …

Silent Tears – The Last Yiddish Tango

Set to music by a Grammy-nominated (Yiddish Glory) and award-winning team of musicians, the songs on the album tell the story of unimaginable violence as experienced by women and children during the Nazi occupation of Poland …

Chamber Works by Alberto Hemsi

This CD, performed by the ARC Ensemble of Toronto, presents the world premiere of a selection of instrumental works by the Sephardic composer Alberto Hemsi …

Tsuzamen – Sirba Octet

This album is a formidable testimony of hope: the hope of the Jews, the Armenians, the gypsies whose repertoires the Sirba Octet wanted to mix so that fraternity is incarnated in music …

Thieves of Dreams – Zloději snů

Upon the recent passing of her mother, Lenka discovered two tattered notebooks of hand-written poetry that her grandmother, Anna Hana Friesová (1901-1987) wrote in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp …

Oras Dezaoradas – Lily Henley

In this CD, the American singer and fiddler Lily Henley revisits the Judeo-Spanish songs of her childhood, drawing on her experience in folk music …

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