08/01/2025
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 …
17/01/2024
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. …
08/11/2023
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 …
19/07/2023
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 …
22/03/2023
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 …
07/03/2023
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 …
01/02/2023
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 …
27/07/2022
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 …
25/05/2022
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 …
11/05/2022
The Best Jewish Songs in the World
This CD contains 30 pieces of Hebrew and Yiddish music orchestrated by Benedict Silberman. Originally published by the Capitol label in 1957 and 1960, these pieces were remastered and released on CD in 1990 …
