Rebbe

1. Right Way to Play

2. It All Comes Back

3. Sister Sarah

4. Junkman's Son

5. Freedom Jazz Dance

6. Avinu

7. Shame, Shame, Shame

8. Bim Bam

9. Shake!

10. You Don't Have to Like Me

11. While It Rains

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Life of the Worlds: Journeys in Jewish Sacred Music Manufacturer: Five Souls Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Middle East | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Tuning The Soul: Worlds of Jewish Sacred Music Kabbalah Music: Songs of the Jewish Mystics Sing My Heart Abayudaya - Music from the Jewish People of Uganda Sacred Chants of the Contemporary Synagogue ASIN: B000172L72 Release Date: 2003-12-03

Tracks:

1. Ha'aderet Veha'emunah/LeKhay Olamim - Yemen
2. Le'El Adir Neranenah - Afghanistan
3. Bati Legani - Eastern Europe
4. Kinah Lekhurban Gan Eden - Eastern Europe
5. Sephardi Yerushalmi Khatsi Kaddish - Jerusalem/Spain
6. Navah Tehilah - Afghanistan
7. Hayoshevet Baganim - Yemen
8. Eyn Keloheynu - Morocco
9. Modeh Ani/Elohay Neshamah - Salonica
10. Eli Shema Koli - Morocco
11. Reb Nachman's Niggun - Ukraine
12. Hishtapkhut Hanefesh - Belarus
13. Niggun of the Alter Rebbe - Belarus
14. Ve'erastikh Li - Salonica
15. El Mistater - Poland
16. Ashrey - Eastern Europe/Spain
17. Yemeni Shema - Yemen
18. Grandfather Sang a Song - Eastern Europe

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The modern-day traditional Jewish music revival is filled with artists exploring klezmer's Eastern-European roots, but you'll hear no clarinet and little violin on cantor/educator Richard Kaplan's Life Of The Worlds. Although these are traditional songs, there is a broad range of the Diaspora represented on his second album, including Afghani, Spanish, Moroccan, and Algerian traditions. Kaplan dives into the sacred and the secular, the prophetic and the exultant, finding commonalities amongst different tribes and fusing them together. Musical accompaniment comes in the form of an occasional flute, piano, and violin as well as Moroccan clay drums, oud, dumbek, and other pre-modern-era instruments, but the instrument at the center of each song is Kaplan's voice--his high baritone majestically soars, quavers with sensitivity, and rings out with joy. To hear him sing solo versions of traditional Niggiun is to hear a world-class master savor the multifaceted nuance of each note and transcend the concept of song, turning it into religion and high art. --Tad Hendrickson

Album Description

A remarkable collection of vocal performances of Jewish sacred music from the Middle East, Andalusia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia - songs of exultation, longing, love, and Divine immanence - accompanied by an ensemble of masterful musicians.

Instruments include: oud, ney, kanun, Egyptian accordian, violin, mandolin, dumbek, doira, riqq, Yemenite can, tar, saz, clarinet, mey (Turkish duduk), tilinca (Rumanian shepherd's flute), piano, string bass, balaban (Klezmer drum set), cimbalom, and a chorus of voices.

Among many special songs, the CD features an 'eco-lament' (ecological lament) based on lament melodies for the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. It is called "Lament on the Destruction of the Garden of Eden" (Kinah Lekhurban Gan Eden), and updates the use of these tunes to mourn the wounding of our larger temple, Gaia - Mother Earth.

LIFE OF THE WORLDS contains 18 songs, 77 minutes of music, and contains a 32-page booklet which includes informative song descriptions; all texts are provided in transliteration, English translation, and in Hebrew or Yiddish.

This CD was three years in the making, and presents the first recordings in North America of several songs from the treasure-chest of Jewish sacred music.

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Average customer rating: technically superb, lacks depth Superbly and deeply musical...a fine enjoyment Tim Sparks - At The Rebbe's Table Unlikely combination--country Klezmer--works brilliantly Jewish music comes full circle -- on the guitar!

At the Rebbe's Table Tim Sparks Manufacturer: Tzadik ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music Klezmer | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Neshamah Tanz One String Leads to Another ASIN: B000063BUT Release Date: 2002-04-23

Tracks:

1. Returning From The River
2. The Keys From Spain
3. At The Rebbe's Table
4. Beautiful City
5. Tartar Dance
6. Mahshav
7. Abu's Courtyard
8. Walking The In-Laws Home
9. La Serena
10. Todos Si Hueron
11. Sadagora Dance

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technically superb, lacks depth.......2005-04-04

Those of us who love klezmer know the pulse-racing effect it has on the listener. If you're looking for that type of experience, pass this CD up. Tim Sparks and Co. are all technically superb musicians and from an intellectual standpoint it is interesting to see the way they try to combine Jewish tunes with other jazz and country forms. When they actually play the tunes, the material perks up, but then there are vast stretches of riffs that become annoying after a while. The main problem is, however,interpretive: their playing is totally detatched emotionally from the material. The end result, however technically brilliant and soothing, is really just good background music - the kind the band plays while you are eating the main course at a wedding.

Superbly and deeply musical...a fine enjoyment.......2004-02-09

At the Rebbe's Table recounts something of the invisible, the centuries of cultures living together in Spain. It is also truly contemporary example of excellence in musical writing and playing being brought through a similarly virtuostic recording process, to speak quietly and deeply into ones ears, including and especially the inner one.

Subtle, light of touch, and quietly powerful by turns, this is music you can leave low for mood, and still be reached to face towards it in moments. If you want really to hear what is being offered, all the beautiful ornaments, multiple moments flashing in sequence of knowing arrivals of harmony and time for the players, simply listen a little louder, or with headphones. Either way, your attention will be repaid.

The Jewish root in this music is one of at least three, or four if you count the Bosnian modulation of source in one instrumental song, The Spanish Keys. It may be enough, to hear something of how a world once was, troubled certainly then to obtain it, and yearns to find again.

One may simply say it is music which will speak to soul, enjoyably to all, and with reward increasingly, towards maturity.

Tim Sparks - At The Rebbe's Table.......2003-03-31

This is acoustic guitarist Tim Sparks' third record exploring Jewish melody on John Zorn's Tzadik label. Zorn, an avant-garde jazz composer, often showcases little-known musicians delving into their Jewish roots. Everything from punk-rock-inflected klezmer and free-form jazz based on Hasidic nigunim (melodies) are the norm on Tzadik records.

The latest album from Sparks includes the well-known Marc Ribot on backing guitar. Many of the tracks on this all-instrumental album are traditional klezmer tunes, smoothed out by Sparks' acoustic treatment.

Naftule Brandwein's "Fun Tashlich," for instance, wouldn't be out of place on Smooth Jazz radio station. Also featured are a traditional Jewish Yemenite song, a Sephardic melody from Greece, and an original John Zorn composition. The album's songs flow together creating a mellow, relaxing, groovy kind of vibe. Sparks' experienced arrangements and technique shine through a diverse selection of music...

Unlikely combination--country Klezmer--works brilliantly.......2003-02-26

It probably would fall flat without the contributions of some of the most creative NY Downtown musicians, viz., Greg Cohen (bass), Marc Ribot (guitar), and Eric Friedlander (cello), plus musical wildcard, world-class percussionist Cyro Baptista. What they do is take the leader's cool concept and ratchet it up to the next level. Thus, the resultant clash of cultures comes across as, somehow, completely natural, even inevitable. Take, for example, "The Keys from Spain," the second cut. Built on a casual Flamenco vibe, when wrapped in Baptista's worldly-wise percussion stylings and Ribot's killer nylon-string guitar solo it warps way beyond its homely genre roots, becoming something elemental, essential, even eternal.

Or check out the subtle guitar interplay on the title cut, where Sparks' sophiticated attack weaves in and out of the more subdued approach (though it's strange to imagine it, if you've heard him, on, say Dave Douglas's Freak In) of Marc Ribot on, of all things, a nylon-string guitar. The magic they consistently evoke comes fully to the fore on "Beautiful City," one of the most evocative, stunningly beautiful guitar duets ever recorded.

All in all, this is deeply moving music, brilliantly concieved by the leader and loving rendered by some of the finest living musicians. Highest rating.

Jewish music comes full circle -- on the guitar!.......2002-05-05

Judging from his music, Tim Sparks has found a deep connection between music and Jewish mysticism. "At The Rebbe's Table" is his third CD in a series of, in his own words, "explorations of Jewish mystical traditions." Played on the steel-string guitar.

If you think the guitar is not an authentically "Jewish" instrument, think again. Plucking stringed instruments dates all the way back to biblical times. King David, it is said, meditated on the sound of his harp. Not to mention that the Sephardic Jews came from Spain --original home of the guitar. Spain was also the home of several schools of kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) during the Middle Ages, whose writings are still studied today. I can easily imagine the Spanish kabbalists meditating to the sound of this instrument. As Sparks explains in his liner notes, "There's a way in which a guitar can uniquely embody these Jewish songs, something about the guitar having evolved from the Judeo-Arabic culture in Spain." So, if you hear strains of flamenco in some of these arrangements, that's not a gentile intrusion -- just a case of Jewish music coming full circle.

He's not just strumming Hava Nagila, either. This is highly sophisticated finger-style picking, accompanied by Marc Ribot on nylon acoustic guitar, Erik Friedlander on the cello, Greg Cohen on bass, and Cyro Basta on percussion. The result is an ensemble with a fresh sound that made me hear Jewish music in an entirely new way. The pieces include traditional Hasidic niggunim, a tune based on an old Yemenite chant, and Sephardic pieces collected in Greece and Bosnia. Plus there are three tunes by Naftule Brandwein, and two klezmer gems gleaned from old 78s recorded by the Abe Schwartz Orchestra. In each case, Sparks and company have breathed a new spirit into these varied forms of Jewish music. Their latest CD is a creative experiment that definitely succeeds!

Average customer rating: Good music

Tradition: Itzhak Perlman Plays Popular Jewish Melodies Itzhak Perlman , Mordechai Gebirtig , Mark Warshavsky , Abraham Goldfaden , Reb Levi Yitzhak , Oscar Strock , Dov Seltzer , Israel Zohar , and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Manufacturer: EMI Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Perlman, Itzhak | ( P ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Israel | Middle East | International | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Opera & Vocal | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Opera & Vocal | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: In the Fiddler's House Cinema Serenade Itzhak Perlman - Live in the Fiddler's House Itzhak Perlman's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Great Recordings Of The Century - Brahms: Violin Sonatas nos 1 - 3 / Perlman, Ashkenazy ASIN: B000002RPA Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. The Jewish Mother (A Yiddishe Mamme)
2. When The Rebbe Elimelech becomes so very merry...(As der Rebbe Elimelech is gevoyrn asoi freylach)
3. Reyzele
4. At The Fireplace (Oif'n Pripetchik brennt a feier'l)
5. Doyna
6. Raisins And Almonds (Rozhinkes mit Mandelen)
7. By the Wayside Stands a Tree (Oif'n Weyg steyt a Boim)
8. A Song (A Dudele)
9. Where Shall I Go? (Vi ahin soll ich Geyn?)

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Good music.......2007-04-07

First of all I am not jewish, nor have I had any prior experiences with or knowledge of jewish music.
With that said, I have really enjoyed this album especially the song "As the rabbi (can't remember the name) becomes so very merry".

Average customer rating: Voice of Klezmer: the Violin Excellent music Brilliant, Sweet, Masterful

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Tracks:

1. Kale Baveynen
2. Baym Rebns Sude
3. Dem Tsadiks Zemerl
4. Romanian Fantasy No. 1
5. Kallarash
6. Dem Trisker Rebns Khosid
7. Kale-Kale Mazl Tov:A Heimisher Bulgar/L'hu Neroneno/Beckerman Honga/Romanian Bulgarish
8. Sha, Sha, Di Shviger Kumt
9. Binyomele's Kholem
10. Glazier's Hora
11. Ternovker Sher
12. Shver Un Shviger
13. Romanian Fantasy No. 3
14. Naftule Shpilt Far Dem Rebn
15. A Heimisher Sher
16. Binyomele's Vig-lid

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Voice of Klezmer: the Violin.......2003-01-10

In the hands of Alicia Svigals: the violin sings, weeps, laughs, cries, and otherwise mimics the human voice ... Alicia has shown the klezmer fiddle to be of equal value to the clarinet in this genre. The Jewish tunes are haunting, lively, energetic and beautiful! She has mastered her instrument & uses multiple playing styles and techniques: a virtuoso. Although klezmer is *most* often dominated by the sounds of the clarinet: there is no playing "second fiddle here"!!! She is a "primas" or "first fiddler" in every sense of the words!!! :-) Other instruments which are the 'supporting cast' to the violin: are the tsimbl (cimbalom), accordion, occasionally a second fiddle, a bass, and drums. Most of the music is traditional & orginates from Romania, the Ukrainian, Turkey, Greece, Moldavia, & Bessarabia (former Soviet Union). There is a tremendous composition that Alicia herself created for a musical play: it fits all the criteria for great klezmer. Most of the tracks are her interpretations of originals from 78 records of the 1920s - 1950s. Some tracks are wedding music, others are of Hassidic origin, others are music for the Sabbath. There are bulgars, doinas, horas, freylekhs, a zmiro (hymn), a hora batuta and a hybrid "bulgarish-frelekh". The liner notes state the Greeks adapted the last one into a hassapiko. The liner notes are very extensive and helpful. They explain technical details related to the typical musical scales used in klezmer: the "Ahavo Rabo" and Ukrainian scales. The latter resembles the music of the Aegean coast from Greece & Turkey, going all the way up the Balkan peninsula to the Ukraine. This is very special cultural music that allows for a wide range of improvisational capability by the right musician: Alicia Svigals has proven to be among the best! This CD is magnificent! Erika Borsos (erikab93).

Excellent music.......2000-03-19

I love this CD. The music is very enchanting. Several songs have an intriguing simple syncopated rhythm, and others have a nice plucked background rhythm from a stringed instrument. Pieces range from very _normal_ klezmer, to interesting new melodies, even one or two that are reminiscent of Celtic melodies.

The audio samples here can sound a bit squeeky, but on a real audio system, Svigal's violin has surprising voice. Similar to Giora Fiedman's clarinet.

Brilliant, Sweet, Masterful.......1998-10-12

This is one of my favorite CDs. I listen to it almost every day, and my seven week old son loves it, too!

Alicia Svigals, who plays fidl with The Klezmatics, has created an amazing solo album. It ranges across the landscape of human emotions with stunning musicality and sensitivity. Some of the tunes are her arrangements of the traditional, and some are original. All are stunning. I think Alicia has led the revival of the fidl as a 20th, and 21st, century klezmer lead instrument, taking its rightful place again alongside the clarinet.

Average customer rating: Itzhak Perlman at His Best Fate is our mate in life

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Tracks:

1. A Yiddishe Mamme
2. As Der Rebbe Elimeclech Is Gevoyrn Asoi Freylach
3. Reyzele
4. Oif'n Pripetchik Brennt A Feier'l
5. Doyna
6. Rozhinkes Mit Mandelen
7. Oif'n Weyg Steyt A Boim
8. A Dudele
9. Viahin Soll Ich Geyn?

Customer Reviews:

Itzhak Perlman at His Best.......2006-07-19

Violinist Itzhak Perlman has used his formidable talent in expressing the pathos and joy of traditional Yiddish tunes and the result brings the listener to both tears of sadness and tears of delight. Mr. Perlman's deep empathy with the Jewish soul is manifested in every note, every nuanced phrase of his performance. A wonderful listening experience for every "ehrlicher yid" - and those who appreciate the history of a people portrayed in sound.

Fate is our mate in life.......2005-11-28

Those music pieces are definitely Jewish and yet they are at the crossroads of bohemian, gypsy and yiddish styles and they make the violin cry in beauty and weep in enthusiasm. The tears of the bow are dancing and sprinkling all over the place and our smiles are enjoying this voice of paradise on earth some spring Sunday afternoon . And yet deep deep under we can hear and feel some vague and yet perfectly distinct menace surging from the night and looming high over the unconscious people who ignore that danger is in the back of every minute and should be at the back of every mind. And suddenly the racing notes accelerate their flight across the air and the sky as if a whole hive of aggressive wasps were arriving and charging. Get lost, get hidden away from the landing of the charging cavalry of danger, any danger : be ready for it, never forget it may come at any time. This music is the voice of the immense cosmic void that fills our minds when we forget life is a struggle against death. It reminds us of our duty to remember that the future cannot be forgotten as if it did not exist. The future is already here, in our back and pushing us to the days to come and the years that will arrive soon, too soon probably for us to be able to change anything. There is a deep sense of fatality in this music : no matter what may happen, we will live it through, and in a way or another survive it. No need to foresee danger it would not help us to face it.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Université Paris Dauphine, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne

Average customer rating: Disappointment!

I'm a Slave to Your Beauty Manufacturer: Hungaroton ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Ligeti, György | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004S90X Release Date: 2000-03-15

Customer Reviews:

Disappointment!.......2006-11-03

I am a fan of Sephardic and Yiddish music, so I was looking forward to listening to this. I was specifically looking for Yerushalayim Shel Zahav (Jerusalem the Gold), and yes, this album contains that song, but I had to stop the CD before the song ended. About half of the songs on this album are sung rather well, but THIS was not one of them. Perhaps mezzo-sopranos have trouble controlling their pitch at high volume and/or slow tempo and I should just be more understanding. Perhaps I am completely spoiled by the perfect tenor I can hear each Shabbat -- Hazzan David Propis. (If you can find his CDs, you will be glad you did.) Whatever the "handicap," today I was looking for a good soprano voice in this genre, and it seems I must continue the search....

Average customer rating:

Step Into My World Common Tongue Manufacturer: Rebbe Soul Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Africa | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Africa | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004T2VO Release Date: 2000-03-30

Tracks:

1. Step into My World
2. Open Market
3. Open Window
4. Radio Man
5. White Rabbit
6. Old City
7. I've Seen God
8. Ain't This Enough
9. Give It Up
10. Eliyahu
11. Lewis Carroll
12. White Rabbit [Dance Mix]

Album Description

Eclectic World Beat. Contains a riveting world music version of the Jefferson Airplane hit, White Rabbit. The title track, Step Into My World is about the mystical Kabbalah. Most of the tracks are world beat and rave.

Average customer rating: A must buy When the Rabbi danced You must own this CD! A superb collection of songs! This CD is a must-have!

When the Rabbi Danced: Songs of Jewish Life Gideon Klein , Viktor Ullmann , Counterpoint , and Robert De Cormier Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music Klezmer | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: El Danzon de Moises ASIN: B00029LNCI Release Date: 2004-06-29

Tracks:

1. Un Az Der Rebe Zingt
2. Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen
3. Partizaner-libe
4. Chassidisch
5. Bachuri Le'an Tisa
6. Tavo-u El Ha'arets
7. A Geneyve
8. Sha Shtil
9. Der Rebe Elimelekh
10. Dortn, Dortn
11. Tumbalalayka
12. Du Zolst Nit Geyn
13. Troyer Past Nisht Unzer Ponim
14. Eliahu Hanavi
15. Nit Ayer Mazl
16. Yome, Yome
17. Di Mezinke
18. S'Brent
19. Hala Yarden
20. A Gib Zhe Khaver
21. S'Dremlen Feygl
22. Tsum Besern Morgn
23. Shtil Di Nakht
24. Yiddishe Brigades
25. Zog Nit Keynmol

Album Description

You might still hear Yiddish songs today, in concert or at social gatherings of Yiddish speakers. But their natural venue was the village or shtetl of Eastern Europe or America where you could hear them through open windows in courtyards, or from busy people humming their way from place to place. They were born and flourished in a world that is no more. They represent the joys and sorrows, dreams and aspirations of ordinary folk, the Jewish mother's dreams for her child, the poverty of the rebbe, the Jewish teacher, the freshness of young love and revolution, the joy of Jewish holidays which provided a welcome respite from the drudgery and hardships of daily life for Eastern European Jewery. Yiddish song reflects the richness of Jewish folklore, as old, vast and varied as the numerous regions which the thousand-year-old language and culture inhabited. It reached its greatest artistic expression in the latter half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. There are songs of work, love and lullabies; songs about great Jewish heroes and parodies about the same, songs about Hassidic rabbis, pogroms, the Messiah, the longing for redemption and the return to Zion, and of revolution. Political parodies abounded in the 20th century as did Yiddish theater songs in various genres: operetta, art song and Vaudeville. There were writers, poets and musicians throughout the ages who created this treasure trove, much of it still waiting to be culled. The Yiddish street singer was a common sight in the cities and towns of Eastern Europe, well into the 20th century. The broder zinger from Galicia heralded in an age of Yiddish folksong creativity that reached every continent on which Jews lived in the 19th and 20th centuries. The poet Itzik Manger and, of course, Mordechai Gibertig, the most famous and popular of the Yiddish folk-poets, were heirs of that tradition. Gibertig "S'Brent," a vision of burning cities and a call to arms, written in 1938, proved to be all too prophetic. During World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews were confined in ghettos across German occupied Eastern Europe. In the ghettos and even concentration camps, members of the terrorized Jewish population engaged in remarkable, organized acts of defiance. Determined to leave a record of their history for posterity, they secretly created archives, diaries, drawings, photographs and songs to document Nazi crimes against their communities. During the same period many European Jews defied their Nazi oppressors by actively taking part in an underground war of resistance. This partisan warfare, carried out by clandestine, irregular forces operating inside enemy territory, was particularly widespread in the dense forests and nearly impassable marshlands of Eastern Europe. In 1942, the Supreme Partisan Headquarters in the Soviet Union extended its authority over the majority of partisan units in Eastern Europe and young Jewish fighters who escaped the ghettos joined the Russian partisans. Jewish partisan units were established in 1943, and the Yiddish language was now used for military communication, as well as for cultural and folkloric expression, such as poetry and song. This is a delightful album, full of energy and wit. The singing is magnificent and infectious. The CD booklet contains full texts of each song in English.

Customer Reviews:

A must buy.......2005-06-09

We love this album! The songs are soothing but not saccharine, invigorating but not forced. Our four year old loves to dance to it and I can't get the songs out of my head so it ranks ten/ten on our scale.

When the Rabbi danced.......2005-06-04

This wonderfully performed collection of familiar songs from the once vibrant Yiddish culture of Eastern Europe is a great addition to my music library. While many of the songs are classics which I remember well from my childhood, the sweetness and elegance of the presentation by Counterpoint add significantly to their impact. Even though most of the European Jewish community was destroyed in the holocaust, these wonderful melodies survived to inspire us today, and to remind us that all was not lost. The arrangements, harmonies and solos are marvelous, and the Yiddish and Hebrew pronunciation are flawless.
It's obvious that a lot of work by some very talented people went into creating this album. Listening to it brings back many bittersweet memories that stir my emotions - It is my sincere hope that Counterpoint will continue to perform such music in the years to come.

You must own this CD!.......2005-02-22

What makes this collection of melodies unique is the marriage of traditional tunes with the less frequently heard songs of resistance and longing from the dark time of the Holocaust.
The beautifully arranged and performed vocals are, by turns, haunting and spirited, mournful and whimsical, taking the listener through the full range of emotions. To hear Counterpoint in concert is an unforgettable experience. This equally stirring CD will leave you feeling just as proud and uplifted, as expressed by the closing words of the final song (Zog Nit Keynmol)..."We are here!"

A superb collection of songs!.......2005-01-03

This collection of Hebrew and Yiddish songs, arranged by Counterpoint conductor Robert de Cormier and Viktor Ullmann, offers a unique view into Jewish life of the shtetl to the Nazi-used Czech town of Terezin and the underground Jewish resistance of WWII. From the "young widowed mother sitting by the cradle" in "Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen" ("Raisins and Almonds"), to the uplifting "Zog nit Keynmol" ("Never say that you are on the Last Road"), the 25 songs on the CD are superbly performed by Counterpoint. Skillful instrumentals accompany a first-rate choral group, and the stylistic arrangements retain the flavor of the genre. "When the rabbi danced" deserves a place in any collection.

This CD is a must-have!.......2004-12-27

I don't speak Yiddish. I am not a child - or relative - of Holocaust survivors. But this CD resonates for me in a unique way. I keep it in my car CD player and play it over and over. The evocative cumulative effect of the quality of Counterpoint's voices, the arrangements and the obvious poignancy and humor of the lyrics is hypnotic. I've given the CD as gifts to friends- to both Jews and non-Jews -and have not only received enthusiastic thanks and praise for the CD, but requests for information on how to buy more for their friends and family!

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1. RebbeSoul-O
2. Revolusom: A Volta Do Tape Perdido [Import]
3. Sagesses et chemins de fortune [Import]
4. Sharena
5. Some Day
6. Steel Drum Favorites
7. Steel Drum Rhythm
8. The Child Within
9. The Real Louisiana
10. The Red & Green Suite, Vol. 4 [Import]

World Music

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Play the Chuck Berry Songbook

Gloria [Import]

El Cuento de Tubby la Tuba y La Historia de Babar el Elefantito

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Dialogue//Album [Original recording remastered]

El Sapo [Import]

Godmusic [Enhanced]

Dueño Del Tiempo

Carpenter: Adventures in a Perambulator / Symphonies 1 & 2

If God Will Send His Angels [CD-single] [Import]

Coco's "Temaeva"

Canciones del Alma

The British Blues Collection

Best of Bob Newhart