This is all as heart-rending as the Schubert cycle and the music, though completely new to me, conveys the feelings just as graphically as Schuberts does. Mark Glanvilles somewhat gritty bass-baritone is powerful and expressive and his straightforward approach is well attuned to the contents of the cycle. He is excellently supported by Alexander Knapp, whose playing is flexible and sensitive. I only wish the recording balance had been more generous to the singer. As it is, one gets the feeling that the piano is at the front of the stage while Mark Glanville is standing behind it. This is a fascinating issue and I urge readers to give it a try. It is music off the beaten track, but that s where one often makes the real discoveries. --Göran Forsling, Musicweb-International.com, November 2012.
Di Sheyne Milnerin is a follow up to the same artists A Yiddish Winterreise. Alexander Knapp and Mark Glanville have taken theessential story of Schuberts Die Schone Mullerin, namely that of unrequited love for a miller girl, but use traditional Yiddish folk songs and texts in highly effective arrangements, largely by Knapp (only Am Feierabend, translated as Nokh der arbet (After work), remains from the original Schubert cycle). The aim of Glanville and Knapp is to present this comparatively unknown but highly attractive music in the style of the classical Lieder tradition. That their concept works so well is partly a tribute to the artists themselves, but also perhaps due to the rich symbiosis that once existed between the German and Jewish cultures, as they explain in the excellent essay contained in the booklet. There is a very appealing feeling of whimsy in the hero of the story, with the spirit of Don Quixote very much in evidence, giving each of the varied songs which range from tragic emotion to humour a certain colourful intensity and a thought-provoking ambiguity. The wealth of attractive melody found in these songs is very seductive indeed, with Glanvilles flamboyant approach to this repertoire, not always immaculate in execution but unfailingly characterful and full of personality, giving point to the words. In sum, anyone who enjoys the Lieder repertoire will relish this quirky and original twist on that art form. --Paul Czajkowski International Record Review
Tzigayner Neshome - Gypsy Soul
Yoni Eilat
Origin: Israel
Yoni Eilat a new talent in the Yiddish Music Sphere...
With enthusiasm, rhythm and songs never heard before - at least by our reviewers Yoni brings a new message to the Jewish music sphere.
A mixture of Gypsy, klezmer and modern music, Mr. Eilat music is a warranty of good listening and happy dancing for everybody and a well of thought for those who want to listen carefully and think about the Lyrics.
Old Roots New World
Maxwell Street Klezmer Band
Origin: USA
Almost anything one writes about klezmer music sounds a bit serious. Originating from Eastern Europe, klezmer, or Jewish folk music, features clarinet and fiddle, but can also include tuba, trumpet, saxophone, flute, piano, percussion, and vocals. This information, however, fails to convey how much fun a group like the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band can be. Eclectic and occasionally outrageous, the 17-member band is bursting at the buttons with intensity. With bouncy instrumentals like "A Lively Honga" and happy vocals like "Play, Fiddle, Play/Yidl With the Fiddle," Old Roots New World reminds one of a cross between John Philip Sousa and cabaret. Kimber Leigh Nussbaum handles most of the vocals and her theatrical style on pieces like "Congratulations, Bride and Groom" captures the joyful spirit of a wedding celebration. Violinist Alex Koffman has done a fine job of providing lively arrangements for many of these songs and instrumentals, which must have been quite a task with all the musicians involved. The band does have a serious side, though it's easy to overlook it amidst so much excitement. A quiet, reflective "Leah's Saraband" crosses folk and classical traditions, while the lyric of "Springtime" recalls the Holocaust and how one woman attempts to continue with her life after the murder of her husband. The album ends with the ambitious "Klezmer Rhapsody for Violin," a 17-minute instrumental with multiple phases ranging from ecstatic to thoughtful. With Old Roots New World, the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band deliver an album that captures the band's abundant energy and versatility. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., All Music Guide
You Should Be So Lucky
Maxwell Street Klezmer Band
Origin: USA
Maxwell Streer Klezmer Band played at my school several years ago, and I loved them! This album does not disappoint at all! The musicianship is superb, and the tunes are catchy and engaging. This is a must have for all klezmer music lovers as well as a fine introductory album for those interested in trying some of the better music of the world!
A tasty mixture of traditional and contemporary Chanukah tunes, favorite Rabbi Joe songs, and classic klezmer cuts, in styles that range from rock 'n roll to bluegrass, funk to jazz fusion, traditional klezmer to Ladino to country yodeling. And it all works seamlessly in a joyous celebration of Chanukah!
The Merlin Shepherd Kapelye
Intimate Hopes & Terrors - Tales From The Kishes.
Origin: Germany
So much is spoken of what touches the Heart, The Soul, the Mind. So much is spoken of the Word. And yet so much experience is from a different place, the place of the viscera, the kishkes. Hence, here they are: Tales From the Kishkes.
Merlin Shepherd, acclaimed player, teacher and interpreter of traditional East European Klezmer Clarinet style, features the former Soviet Union Klezmer All Stars or, in his own words, some of the greatest klezmer players in the world today. Go and hear for yourself! One has hardly heard before Klezmer played with such passion, such authority, such pleasure and such a lack of attitude. Jewish Music directly from the heart, the soul and, not to forget, from the kishkes. Jewish music that comes closer to one of the many ways that it may or probably may not have sounded so long ago.
The Lori Cahan-Simon Ensemble
Chanukah is Freylekh! A Yiddish Chanukah Celebration. Songs My Bubbe Should Have Taught Me: Volume Two
Origin: Cleveland,OH USA
A delightful recording
This is a very jolly set of European-style performances — tsimbl and fiddle predominate, no brass — that often feels like a family gathering. And that’s appropriate, because the CD comes with dance directions for kids, as well as the usual translations, bios and such. A delightful recording, fueled by Cahan-Simon’s warm, friendly sound. George Robinson
Leibu Levin
Word and Melody - Yiddish Poetry Set to Music
Origin: Tel Aviv, Israel
Ruth Levin presents to the public the best creations of Leibu Levin, her father. Czernowitz born actor and composer, the last of the great Yiddish trobadours. Leibu Levin is also called the "Jewish Schubert". This anthology includes most of Levin's lifetime work, and its variety paints a musical portrait of the Jewish epos in the 20th century.
A Josh Waletzky Film
Itche Goldberg: A Century of Yiddish Letters
Origin: New York, USA
Josh Waletzky, the acclaimed filmmaker of "Partisans of Vilna" and composer of Yiddish songs like "Dem zeydns nign" and Eugene Orenstein, an Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University present us this documentary on how at 101, Itche Goldberg -Editor, Essayist, Literary Critic, Poet and Editor- takes a look back at his life and work.
Jewish People's Philarmonic Chorus
Zingt - A Celebration of Yiddish Choral Music
Origin: New York, USA
This CD has been a long time coming. Several albums had been recorded by the JPPC through 1967, but none since then. In 2004, its conductor, Binyumen Schaechter, decided to search the JPPC's current and past archives to select some of the best songs for a CD that would showcase the range of musical styles, moods and themes in our repertoire. We hope this selection of choral gems in "Zingt!" - most of which have not been recorded in a choral version before - will delight and inspire you as it has us.
Mendy Cahan & Der Yiddish Express
Yiddish Fever
Origin: Jerusalem, Israel
Yiddish meets Arab, Rock and Opera Listen to Summer Time back in its original language.
Yes. Originally created for anski's dibbuk, it transformed into porgy and bess when Ira Gershwin couldn't get the rights to "Der Dibbuk" and now it is back in Yiddish.
Benny Bell
Lost Legend of Elton Street
Origin: Verona, NJ, USA
One of Brooklyn's most unique Jewish minstrels of musical myth.
This 20-song CD collection (just $11), taken from the original recordings, is a priceless time capsule into a very special category of Jewish-American music of the 20th Century.
Available by Mail Order only. Send a Check or Money order for $11 madeout to Joel Samberg Mail to: Lost Legend c/o J. Samberg P.O. Box 144, Verona NJ 07044-0144
Lucette van den Berg
Zing Shtil
Origin: The Netherlands
The theme of nature is a symbol of all aspects of human life. Since immemorial times poets have been inspired by nature, a mirror of the soul. The theme of longing, one's feelings, is also a classical one. These feelings can be expresses using everyday examples. In this album, the lyrics deal with various aspects of longing in which melancholy, parting, hope and love come to the forefront. Lucette van den Berg
Daniel Galay
Klezmer Tunes With a Classical Touch
Origin: Israel
The composer Daniel Galay has brought this traditional music to the concert hall through his own performances. The pieces capture every mood from happiness and joy to tunes of somber sentiment and sorrow, together with the inimitable Jewish humor. Here are enjoyable tunes for every occasion, exuberant and nostalgic in turn.
Autralian Music Teacher Magazine - March-April 2001.
Betty Klein
Betty Klein Sings Yiddish Favorites
Origin: Israel
Betty Klein, international folksinger, pianist, guitarist, harpist and accordionist has performed in the U.S., Europe, and Israel. She appeared on the BBC, Belgian, Israeli, Spanish and Italian radio and television. She performs at the Disapora Museum and conducts Yiddish sing alongs through Israel.
Yiddish Soul
A Live Performance at Yiddishkayt Los Angeles - Food for the Souls Festival
Origin: USA
Yiddish Soul, a feast of music both ancient and radically new, closed the 2002 "Food for the Soul" Festival on October 13, 2002. A stellar group of musicians -universally acclaimed for their varied groundbreaking projects in traditional and contemporary Yiddish music and theater -celebrated the vitality of Yiddish culture at the beginning of the 21st. century. Fed by the humility, humor and creative passion of generations of artists, these celebrated Yiddish songmasters moved through centuries of musical territory that brought the 700 lucky people in attendance to their feet.
Melodies of Yiddish Shtetlakh - Sheet Music Book
Compiled and edited by Dr. Yelena Irzabekova
Origin: Baku, Azerbaijan
The book Melodies of Yiddish Shtetlakh contains examples of Yiddish music (folk music and compositions) and continues the series devoted to the Jewish musical heritage.
Although interest in Yiddish music has increased considerably in recent years, its study has become more and more complicated, because the world in which Yiddish culture emerged and flourished doesn't exist anymore. The main purpose of this book is to reintroduce forgotten and unknown scores and historic information relating to the Yiddish musical heritage.
An Anthology of Soviet Yiddish Music - Sheet Music Book
Compiled and edited by Dr. Yelena Irzabekova
Origin: Baku, Azerbaijan
There are some differences in the spelling of Yiddish words in this book. Yiddish uses Hebrew script, but in the post-revolution period Latin script started to be used specifically for song lyrics. However, geographical differences in Yiddish dialects represent real differences of pronunciation, while in some cases perhaps differences are due merely to an absence of rules for transliterating. The spelling in this materials is as it appears in the original materials.
An Anthology of Soviet Yiddish Music - Sheet Music Book
Compiled and edited by Dr. Yelena Irzabekova
Origin: Baku, Azerbaijan
This collection compiled and edited by Dr. Yelena Irzabekova and titled Jewish Songs and Dances contains Yiddish musical folklore arranged by Soviet Jewish composers. The majority of songs and dances included into this work were collected, arranged and published for the first time in the pre-WWII period in the former Soviet Union.
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
Af Di Gasn Fun Der Shtot
Origin: USA
New Yiddish songs by a leading Yiddish poet and songwriter, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, and performed by today's best young klezmer artists and singers including: Michael Alpert, Adrienne Cooper, Frank London, Lorin Sklamberg, Theresa Tova, Sharon Bernstein, Benyumin Schaechter, Pete Rushefsky, Deborah Strauss.
The Harmonica - Book
The true story of a child's survival during the Holocaust
Origin: USA
Based on a true survivor story, this powerful picture book is yet another astonishing Holocaust account for discussion. A Polish Jewish child, blissfully happy with his loving parents, gets a harmonica from his coal-miner father and learns to play Schubert while his parents dance. The realistic mixed-media, double-page illustrations contrast that glowing warmth of home with the darkness that comes when Nazi soldiers break down the door, separate the boy from his family, and send him to the camps. His harmonica becomes his solace. The commandant hears about the child's playing. He orders the boy to play Schubert and throws him bread. In the end, however, the music does nothing to humanize the brutal Nazis. In fact, one unforgettable picture shows the commandant blissfully listening to the music, one hand over his heart and the other holding a whip. The home memories are idyllic, but there's absolutely no sentimentality about the child's survival. Johnston gives children and grown-ups lots to talk about here--for example, Can a person be both sensitive and cruel?
In 1983, the Austrian State Broadcasting Service produced a two-hour program on Gebirtig, as part of a series on great Jewish personalities, such as Freud, Einstein, Marx, Mahler, Buber, etc. Had anyone suggested to Gebirtig during his lifetime that a time would come that he, the humblest of the humble, would be considered one of the greatest in his field of folk-music, he would have considered it a joke in poor taste.
In this way Sinai Leichter typifies Mordekhay Gebirtig in his "Anthology of Yiddish folksong", Volume 6, and it is a striking characterization.
Yale Strom with Hot Pstromi & Klazzj
Cafe Jew Zoo
Origin: Canada
Composer and violinist Yale Strom has attempted to capture the many faces of klezmer on this album, and in part he succeeds. Whether it's on "Biribidzhan," with its familiar frantic pace (there were many similarities between klezmer and Gipsy music), or "Horo Din Caval," led by some lovely guitar picking, or even the attempt at soul with "Ten Plagues," he refuses to be shackled to some stereotype of klezmer. And that's all well and good.
Leibele Jinich
El Mundo Maravilloso del Shtetl y sus Canciones
Origin: Mexico
Leibele Jinich, Chazan Emeritus of the Mexico's Bet-El Community honors in this CD to the Chazanim, Singers, Musicians, Composers, Directors and Poets who have made a contribution to enrich the Jewish music around the world.
This CD is also in honor of the following Jewish towns and cities in Europe: Merech, Lapi, Odesa, Radsky, Lazdei, Sanock, Zagush, Vilna, Warsaw, Dobrzyn, Satoraijavjhely, Salonika, Suvalk, Punsk, Uman, Ostrovietz, Starobin, etc.
Sheva Zucker
Yiddish Voices From Today and Yesterday
Origin: USA
Listen to 10 Yiddish writers reading from their own writings in this production by Sheva Zucker which brings the Yiddish voice to those who did not have a formal yiddish education and never heard the writers, teachers or performers read high level writing in Yiddish.
Enjoy Sholem Aleichem, (yes the original in his own voice!), listen to Leivick, Molodowsky, Glatshteyn, Leyeles, Sutzkever, Mash, Shraibman and of course Schaechter-Gottesman reading their own writings.
Enjoy the recording, enjoy the language and get to know the writers in the included book of biographies (All in Yiddish AND English) and if that would not be enough read with the readers with the full transcript provided in a second booklet with all copy in perfect Yiddish with a brief but good translation into English and a lexicon for specific words translated into English, Russian and Hebrew.
A perfect CD to buy for yourself, for your parents and your friends...
To order this CD contact the producer:
Sheva Zucker 1114 Iredell St. Durham, NC 27705. The cost is $25 + 2 for postage in the US. Postage for other countries may vary. sczucker@aol.com
Jacqui Sussholz sings with such feeling, he can make your spine tingle. You`ll hear his heart and you`ll feel he knows your soul. He can be tender, joyous, or deeply moving. He can make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. Sussholz is the real thing: his traditional Yiddish and Hassidic music comes direct from the source, and you can hear it. The brilliant, richly-textured musical arrangements bring vibrant new life to Yiddish/Hassidic classics. This is music that transcends categories; music lovers everywhere will hear its call - and respond. Yiddish really is for ever - and for everyone. Yiddish is Forever: the full 3-CD collection - 48 songs, more than 3 hours of great music.
Sing Alone Tape and Hagaddah
Songs For a Secular Celebration of Pesach
Origin: Philadelphia
This charming Haggadah emphasizes Yiddish culture through wonderfully relevant selections from Sholom Aleichem, I. L. Peretz, Chaim Zhitlovsky, and Yiddish songs of rejoicing and resistance...Our uniqueness as a people is both observed and celebrated. One of my favorites.
Sherm Labovitz, accompanied by Alexander Botwinik and Marvin Weinberger
Mayn Oytser- My Treasure
Origin: Philadelphia
Mayn Oytser...is indeed a treasure...Mellow, melodic, fresh, this collection brings new life to old and new classics...We should all celebrate the release of this CD.
Some of the songs are old vintage, others are more recent, but Sherm Labovitz sings all of them with a magnetic haunting nostalgia that makes one listen to them over and over again.
Fire & Love Band
Vu Is Dus Gesele
Origin: Australia
For over 20 years Alex Spektor and Vitaly Barishnikov have been performing, composing, and producing award winning original music, and song writing for the television and film industry. Now they present "Vu Is Du Gesele", a collection of Yiddish folk songs with a modern interpretation and sound, dedicated to the People who perished in the Holocaust.
Warren Byrd & David Chevan
The Afro Semitic Experience
Origin: USA
Even when they seemed to have taken their own routes, the truth is that both the African-American and the Jewish experience in America are as close as ever and will keep on developing side by side since anything that happens to one will affect the second one.
On a positive note In this record both musical experiences come together to create a unique mix and a new sound for these communities.
"Sha Shtil" brings together the rhythms of Eastern Europe with the ones from Western Africa to create a rich melody worth of the best American tradition.
With this CD you will enjoy his showmanship and humor while listening to songs in Yiddish., English, Hebrew and "Brustynian" a language invented by the Burstyns mixing all the different components of their world from Argentina to Canada, from France to Israel.
A really enjoyable album with one of the most renowned Jewish showmen.
Various Artists
A Jewish Odyssey
Origin: Worldwide
A Jewish Odyssey, a compilation that explores the richness and diversity of Jewish music. From the Mediterranean flavors of Sephardic music to energetic and emotive klezmer, A Jewish Odyssey follows the long journey of Jewish music from the Middle East to Eastern Europe, Spain, Turkey, Italy, the USA, Israel and beyond.
The Jewish Vocal Quartet Ashkenazim
Simkha
Origin: Kazan, Tatarstan
You might not recognize the country this CD comes from and you might never have heard about it but once you listen to this CD you will know Yiddish soul is well and alive through out the centuries and the geography.
This quartet sings 'A Capella' beautiful Yiddish folk songs and Khassidishe Nigunim with a quality that has given them multiple well-deserved international awards. When you listen to it you will enjoy the freshness of their voices and the deep tradition of their songs which encompass a famous folk song of the 1920's born among the many farm collectives created throughout the Soviet Union which in some places became a chant closely related to the Jewish country of Birobidzan...
Klingon Klezmer
Honey Would You be Meshuga Tonite?
Origin: Philadelphia, USA
This CD contains a rich mixture of jazz, Dixieland, klezmer and Yiddish secular music.
The list of songs include a wonderful combination of all kinds of music from the "Anti-Fascist March" and "Meshugas", to "The Nice Jewish Wedding in New Orleans" and "Babes in White Satin"!
The performance is first class and although not all songs would easily qualify as Jewish but certainly not as Klezmer music it is a record worth having where everybody will find something they like.
Flory Jagoda & Ramón Tasat
Kantikas de Amor i Vida
Origin: USA
Unique music from a unique duet.
The song we've selected, "Yo La Kería" has been largely known as "Donde estás corazón" supposedly composed by Luis Martínez Serrano (Mexican-Spaniard) around 1911.
According to its singer it is a Bosnian song of Ladino tradition.
We are investigating about this controversy. If you know about its real origin, please write us and let us know.
This CD gathers diverse melodies from Spain, Morocco, Greece, Iraq and Israel. The selection features examples of secular tunes assimilated to liturgical texts, songs of praise, traditional melodies and paraliturgical songs
The recording features love songs from the fifties like “Yatzanu At” or French songs like “Ahava bat Esrim,” the yearning of Rabbi Y. ha Levi to return to Zion (“Zion haLo Tishali”), children’s songs about Israel (“Amisrael”), about our love for the land of our ancestors (“Eretz, Eretz”) or a medley of famous songs for Israel’s Independence Day (“Zemer Lakh-Shibolet baSade-laMidbar”). It also includes optimistic songs like “Ten Li,” “Shir Hadash,” “Shiru Shir Amen” and true prayers like N. Shemer’s “Al Col Ele.” Ramón has composed a specially beautiful setting of “Libabtini” (You have enraptured my heart), romantic excerpt extracted from the Song of Songs
In this unusual release Ramón Tasat has recorded Italian, Turkish and Spanish Jewish melodies from the Sephardic tradition by three talented and yet hardly known composers: Manuel García Morante, Alberto Hemsi and Federico Consolo.
Jill Rogoff
The Voice of the Wanderer
Origin: Israel
Many people may be familiar with Yiddish or Sephardic songs, or perhaps some of the Hassidic music that has become so popular, fashionable, even, sometimes beyond the Jewish community. Some may know the kind of ‘cabaret Yiddish’ repertoire that I heard in my childhood; others may have heard a few Israeli songs from the 1950s and ’60s. Very early on in my research, however, I realised that Jewish music means far more than this. It is an entire world, spanning the globe, and I decided to reflect this as much as I could with this project.
Ofri Eliaz gives Ladino another vision, almost as if it were a perspective from above. Eliaz designs (with the help of her musical producer Shai Bachar) Mediterranean flowing music; music which is both eastern and cosmopolitan, like a haute couture designer who makes the optimal ethnic dress, to 12 Ladino songs. The result is enchanting and intriguing. The Ladino receives a surprising twist; the title song has a Baroque quality. Fresh and interesting.
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New CD, limited edition home made, Sephardic, Ladino, a photo of Mor Karbasi on the CD and Labelled on the Back and Spine, 7 tracks, mostly original songs, a rare CD including Jewish Andalusian Music.
Tamar Kleinberger
Una Noche al Lunar
Origin: Jerusalem, Israel
This album includes a selection of seven wedding songs, six of which were taken from the tradition of Moroccan Spanish speaking communities. These songs accompany the different stages of the wedding.
Trío Sefarad
Aromas de Sefarad
Origin: Toledo, Spain
Trio Sefarad's interpretations are based on existing musicological studies, enriched through their own research and by their connection with the members of Sephardic communities in different countries. The music included in this CD proves it true. It also includes a booklet written in English, Spanish and French with information about Sephardic Music, History and more. Enjoy it!
Montserrat Franco
Kantigas y Romanzas Sefardies
Origin: Paraguay
From Paraguay, Montserrat sent us her latest CD recorded in Israel. From this recording, we have included in our collection "Kuando el Rei Nimrod". Here we show a sample of "Adio Kerida", a "kantiga" from Bulgaria.
Various Artists
A Jewish Odyssey
Origin: Worldwide
A Jewish Odyssey, a compilation that explores the richness and diversity of Jewish music. From the Mediterranean flavors of Sephardic music to energetic and emotive klezmer, A Jewish Odyssey follows the long journey of Jewish music from the Middle East to Eastern Europe, Spain, Turkey, Italy, the USA, Israel and beyond.
The Gerard Edery Ensemble
Love Songs of Sephardim and Renaissance Spain
Origin: USA
A release by the accomplished guitarist Gerard Edery, a Moroccan Jew with solid classical training and a smooth, warm voice, soprano Cassandra Hoffman and tasteful percussionist Rex Benincasa. Very appealing arrangements.
The Gerard Edery Ensemble
Oigo - I Hear
Origin: USA
Gerard Edery, a master of Sephardic song, turns Adina Ruskin's verses into a rich mixture of Latin American musical genres...the ability to combine Ms. Ruskin's lyrics and the emotional expressions into a single human outcry is remarkable...
The Gerard Edery Ensemble explores the rich complex of varied musical traditions bequeathed to us by a cosmopolitan Renaissance civilization that reached its peak in The Golden Age of Spain.
Commanding songs in some dozen languages, including English, French, Spanish, Ladino, Hebrew and Arabic, these gifted musicians engage the antique repertoire as a living legacy, combining stylistic authority with an immense creative flair.
Warren Byrd & David Chevan
The Afro Semitic Experience
Origin: USA
Even when they seemed to have taken their own routes, the truth is that both the African-American and the Jewish experience in America are as close as ever and will keep on developing side by side since anything that happens to one will affect the second one.
On a positive note In this record both musical experiences come together to create a unique mix and a new sound for these communities.
"Sha Shtil" brings together the rhythms of Eastern Europe with the ones from Western Africa to create a rich melody worth of the best American tradition.
The Gerard Edery Ensemble
Sing To The Eternal
Origin: USA
In collaboration with The Village Temple in New York City, The Gerard Edery Ensemble’s latest release is an offering of spiritual songs from Morocco, Persia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Spain and Portugal as well as original songs composed by Gerard Edery and based on sacred texts. Sung in English, Hebrew, Ladino and Arabic. Includes Adon Olam, Eli Eliyahu, Ya Ribon, L’Cha Dodi, Los Bilbilicos, To Everything There is a Season, Mi Ze Yemalel and many more with full lyrics and translations.
The name of this CD, Sing to the Eternal, conveys the hope that it will be a pathway for all who wish to enter into a musical dialogue with our Creator, our People and with all of humanity. The original songs, arrangements and translations reflect our belief that we cannot create the definitive liturgical format and sound for our time, but need to be ever open to the musical traditions around us.
Proyekto Folklor de Kol Israel
Kantes Djudeo-Espanyoles
Origin: Israel
From the oldest Sephardic traditions to the newest efforts to rescue its folklore comes this record which combines traditional melodies from all over the Sephardic world.
Real non-professional people recorded these melodies which will illuminate your tour through time and space around the Sephardic world of yesterday, today and tomorrow for your amazement and enjoyment.
Discover real folklore with this unique recording coordinated by Moshe Shaul, possibly one of the most knowledgeable and most enthusiastic supporters of Sephardic Culture.
El Kante de Una Vida reflects, as its name imply, the songs of a lifetime.
Actually, it reflects more the songs of a people since it encompasses a large selection of Ladino folk songs and a second CD of liturgical and nursery rhymes translated into Hebrew.
A CD you will surely enjoy. The booklet includes the copy for the first CD's 29 Ladino songs -in Ladino- and the text, in Hebrew only, for the second CD translations.
Idit Rozén, Yossi Levy and Jill Rogoff
Di Ke No Es Tadre - Kantigas de Amor en Ladino
Origin: Israel
En este CD topamos tredje Kantigas escritas por la escritora i "reyna de los kuentos", Matilda Koén Sarano, i una otra traducida por eya del ebreo al ladino y eskrita por Danya Haim. El sujeto sentral de estas kantigas es el amor: amor por el kriador y amor por la persona, ke no konose frenos ni limitos, kon la alegría y la tristeza que están atadas endjuntos.
El kompozitor de las melodías de las kantigas es Avraham Reuveni, ke no aze parte de los djudíos sefaradís, mas sus kalidades y sus talentos le dieron la inspirasión a kompozar de estas "perlas de Espanya", múzika en estil latino moderno ke se adapta a la fuente de la kuala toma Matilda Koén-Sarano los sujetos de sus kreasiones.
Janet & Jak Esim
Mira - Djudeo Español Sephardic Songs
Origin: Turkey
Sephardic music in Judeo Spanish and Ladino. Jak Esim is one of the most important people in the world with his researches and collection of songs in this field.
They make a contemporary, polyponic interpretation true to its authenticity with their group consisting of prominent musicians of Turkey.
The group aims to introduce the Sephardic music to the international arts platform in the most efficient way and starting with this ethnic structure they also aim to form different vibrations.
Various Artists
Nostaljia - Nuevas Kantigas Djudeo-Espanyolas
Origin: Israel
Dos autores se adjuntaron para ofresernos el fruto de su kreasión en un kampo orijinal i ezmoviente: kantigas con palavras i muzika djudeo-espanyolas.
Los sujetos de estas kantigas son muy variados: ay kantigas de amor, de despartisión y de selo, ay un kante de kuna, ay kantigas de famiya, de amor a Yerushaláyim.
Este es un tentativo inovador ke merese muestras felisitasiones.
Matilda Koén-Serrano
Vini Kantaremos - Koleksión de kantes djudeo-espanyoles
Origin: Israel
Matilda Koén-Serrano mos sorprende kada vez de muevo. Ainda no eskapimos de gustar sus "Kuentos", ke ya tenemos delantre de mozotros un ermozo i enteresante livro de kantes i romanzas en djudeo-espanyol...
ITZHAK NAVON Sinkén Prezidente del Estado d'Israel
To Buy This Book Matilda and Aharon Cohen Phone: 02-652-3864 paz3@zahav.net.il
Betty Klein
Yerusalayim de Oro - Songs in djudeo-espanyol
Origin: Israel
The songs in this recording include some romanzas (ballads) that are sung only in Jerusalem in their own dialect.
Yizhak Levy, Moshe Attias, and currently Matilda Koén-Serrano and others have preserved this songs. The lyrics can be found in the book "Vini Kantaremos", by Matilda Koén-Serrano.
To Buy This CD or Cassette Matilda and Aharon Cohen Phone: 02-652-3864 paz3@zahav.net.il
Ta'am Latino: The Latin American Shabbat
Hazan Gastón Bogomolni
Origin: Argentina
This CD is the result of four enjoyable years of hard work. Ta'am Latino: The Latin American Shabbat, portrays a mix of who I am: a Latin American Jew. Each rhythm was carefully chosen to depict the meaning of each liturgical poem. It is my wish that the music of this CD inspire people around the world to sing the Shabbat prayers, by also learning the rich music of our Latin American countries.
Shlomo Gronich & The Sheba Choir
A mix of Yiddish Hebrew and Sephardic songs.
Origin: Israel
The Sheba Choir, is a group formed by Ethiopian children in Israel, whose travels have extended thorugh out the world. We have selected for your enjoyment "Israeli Song", a beatiful melody performed in Hebrew.
Various Artists
A Jewish Odyssey
Origin: Worldwide
A Jewish Odyssey, a compilation that explores the richness and diversity of Jewish music. From the Mediterranean flavors of Sephardic music to energetic and emotive klezmer, A Jewish Odyssey follows the long journey of Jewish music from the Middle East to Eastern Europe, Spain, Turkey, Italy, the USA, Israel and beyond.
The Salman Bassoun Family
Songs of Praise, Shbaboth and Pizmoneem
Origin: Babylon (Irak)
From Irak we received this wonderful CD, containing Songs of Praise, Shbaboth and Pizmoneem, in the Babylonian Jewis Tradition, as sung in Babylon and several Sephardi Communities.
Shirona combines two rare gifts in this magnificent debut album - a breathtakingly beautiful voice and a talent for composing melodies that capture the soul of the listener.
Eliyahoo Hanabee
The Musical Tradition of the Bene Israel of Bombay
Origin: Bombay, India
This CD features 14 songs of the Bene Israel musical tradition that have been recorded in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, in 1996. The songs are performed by male singers mostly in Hebrew, and a few in Aramaic and Marathi - the regional language of Maharashtra.
Rivers of Babylon
Treasures
Origin: London, England
After the June 1941 pogroms in Baghdad which left hundred of Iraqi Jews dead and created the atmosphere for the closure, 10 years later, of could possibly be called the oldest Jewish community in the world few new recordings of their millennial tradition have been made.
Now with Treasures, Songs of Praise in the Iraqi Jewish tradition the group, Rivers of Babylon directed by Sara Manasseh brings as a selection of 13 happy melodies to enjoy and to use as our own key to learn and share the joy and traditions of this very old Sephardic community.
Warren Byrd & David Chevan
The Afro Semitic Experience
Origin: USA
Even when they seemed to have taken their own routes, the truth is that both the African-American and the Jewish experience in America are as close as ever and will keep on developing side by side since anything that happens to one will affect the second one.
On a positive note In this record both musical experiences come together to create a unique mix and a new sound for these communities.
"Sha Shtil" brings together the rhythms of Eastern Europe with the ones from Western Africa to create a rich melody worth of the best American tradition.
Sha-Rone Kushnir and Josh Friedman
Sons Of The Highest - Meditative Masterpieces
Origin: New York
"Sons Of The Highest" is a full length CD created under the auspices of The Center For Jewish Culture and Creativity as part of The Center's comprehensive international Niggun focus project.
Richard Locker
Jewish Cello Masterpieces
Origin: New York
Many of these intense and beautiful works are well known to classical music lovers. Richard Locker is well known for his expressive and stylish performance of solo and chamber music masterworks.