WANDERING AROUND JEWISH MUSIC : Classical compositions by the Russian Mikhail Gnesin, Klezmer by the Shtetl Band Amsterdam, Ladino by the Bosnian Flory Jagoda & Family.
Mikhail Gnesin.
The tribute to the Jewish songs and chamber music of Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin (1883–1957), is a publication of the Dutch Foundation for Jewish Music Projects, founded on 27 March 2001 in Amsterdam.
The music of Mikhail Gnesin was a find, his music was virtually unknown in the West. Even in Russia it was not very well known, where Jewish music was forgotten during the repressive Stalinist regime.
CD. Tribute to Mikhail Gnesin : Songs and chamber music by Mikhail Gnesin.
LABEL: Joodse Muziek Projecten (2009), code: JMP CD 003. VIDEO
Shtetl Band Amsterdam.
Traditional Klezmer pieces combined with new compositions in the village-klezmer style. Shtetl Band Amsterdam has developed in recent years into a treasurer of the original klezmer music enriched with the clarinetist Christian Dawid. In the meantime, The Amsterdam Klezmer Society has taken over the torch and continues this music genre with several musicians: Bert Vos (violinist and bandleader), Lefke Wang (violinist and poykenist), Eva van de Poll (cellist, zagist and poykenist), Elianne van Ee (accordionist and vocals), Shura Lipovsky (guest soloist: vocals) and Christian Dawid (guest soloist and clarinetist).
CD. Roots and shoots – Shtetl Band Amsterdam.
LABEL: Xango music (2015), code: SBA2015. VIDEO
Flory Jagoda & Family.
She grew up in a family of singers. Her childhood, in a mountain village outside Sarajevo, Bosnia/Herzegovina, was filled with songs sung in Ladino—the language passed down by Jews expelled from Spain during the Inquisition—that told of the loves, lives, and rituals of her community. With the horrors of World War II, all that changed. Flory Jagoda and her parents were the only survivors of the 42-member Altaras family. Since then, Flory, a 2002 NEA National Heritage grantee, has dedicated her professional life to composing, performing, and teaching songs that preserve her memories of that lost life. Her songs, sung in Ladino, echo the Spanish and Bosnian melodies and rhythms of her past.
CD. La nona kanta – The grandmother sings Flory Jagoda.
LABEL: Global Village (1992), code: CD 155. VIDEO
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