Klezmer
13/11/2015
Tantz ! Klezmer & Gipsy music – Sirba Octet
With the virtuosity that characterizes each of the group's members, the Sirba Octet's album "Tantz!" (La Dolce Volta, 2015) energetically carries away Jewish and Gypsy melodies, revisited with a classical twist …
04/11/2015
Poyln – A gilgul
This CD, constituted in chapters inspired by the various stages of the Metamorphosis of a melody, the famous book by I. L. Peretz, features an obscure field of klezmer music repertoire …
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a true historical and ethnomusicological essay, this CD released in September 2015 features archive recordings, unpublished until now, and absolutely breathtaking …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 …
03/08/2015
Old Jewish Folk Music – The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski
This book of reference features the writings and the works from the collecting of Yiddish songs and klezmer tunes done by the ethnomusicologist Moshe Beregovski (1892-1961) in Soviet Union …
21/12/2014
Yiddishe Fantazye
This authentic record takes us deep into the universe of Eastern European Jewish music, long before the accordion and the clarinet became inseparable from klezmer music …
06/11/2014
The compleat Klezmer
Published by Tara Publications in 2000, this music score collection, compiled by Henry Sapoznik, is the ultimate klezmer music anthology ! …
21/12/2013
Sirba Octet – Yiddish Rhapsody
In 2009, to fulfill an order from the Pau Orchestra / Pays de Béarn, directed by Faycal Karoui, Isabelle Georges and Richard Schmoucler create Yiddish Rhapsody, an invitation to travel in the heart of Yiddish melodies from the folkloric repertoire of the Eastern Europe Jews …