20/10/2015
Chekhov’s Band – Eastern European Klezmer music from the EMI archives 1908-1913
Coming with a tremendously rich booklet, a true historical and ethnomusicological essay, this CD released in September 2015 features archive recordings, unpublished until now, and absolutely breathtaking …
20/10/2015
Wandering Stars: Songs from Gimpel’s Lemberg Yiddish Theater, 1906-1910
Gimpel’s Yiddish theater of Lemberg was the first permanent Yiddish theater in Europe. Several 78 RPM discs of songs from this theater were recorded between 1906 and 1910. This CD, produced by Julian Futter and Michael Aylward, restored it for our pleasure …
19/10/2015
Shir Hodu – Jewish Songs from Bombay of the ’30s
“Shir Hodu” means in Hebrew “Song of India”. It also means “Song of praise”. This anthology features for the first time on a CD the most famous Indian singers from Bombay, in a historical performance of the 1930’s …
18/10/2015
Waks – Yiddish Voices
Drawing from sounds recorded on wax cylinders between 1928 and 1941 by Sofia Magid and Moishe Beregovsky, the musicians Inge Mandos (vocals), Klemens Kaatz (piano, accordion, harmonium) and Hans-Christian Jaenicke (violin) start a dialogue defying time with voices from the past …
03/08/2015
Oyfn veg / En chemin – Popular Yiddish songs
Oyfn Veg/En chemin is a compilation of Yiddish songs, with also a few Judeo-Spanish, Hebrew and French songs, harmonized by Jean Golgevit …
03/08/2015
Leibu Levin – Word and melody – Yiddish Poetry Set to Music
Leibu Levin (1914, Czernowitz - 1983, Hertzliya) was an actor, singer and composer. A great part of his work was written in Yiddish …
03/08/2015
Tshiriboym – Nouveaux chants yiddish
Tshiriboym gathers 48 songs written by Jacques Grober (1951-2006), author, composer and singer, since the 1980’s, and 9 nigunim, melodies inspired from the Chasidic tradition …
03/08/2015
Notre langue d’intérieur
This small book features a collection of autobiographic texts, funny and moving, from the singer Talila, with photographs by Franck Juery …
03/08/2015
American Klezmer – Its Roots and Offshoots
This collective work, edited by Mark Slobin, focuses on "American Klezmer - its roots and ramifications". Contributors include Michael Alpert, Walter Z. Feldman, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Henry Sapoznik, Frank London or the violinist and composer Alicia Svigals …
03/08/2015
Voices of a People – The Story of Yiddish Folksong
An accessible and documented work, Voices of a People by Ruth Rubin is today the most important book available on Yiddish songs …
