Track Listing

1. Rumenishe Doina - Naftule Brandwein
2. Yoshke Fort Avek
3. VI Tsvey Iz Naftule Der Driter - Naftule Brandwein
4. Romanian Fantasy, Pt. 4
5. Naftule Shpilt Far Dem Rebn - Naftule Brandwein
6. Yiddish Hora: A Heymish Freylekhs
7. Jewish Dance
8. Yikhes - Belf's Rumanian Orchestra
9. Heyser Bulgar - Naftule Brandwein
10. Rumenisher Nign - Dave Tarras
11. Doina
12. Buhusher Khusid - Joseph Moskowitz
13. Galitsyaner Khusid - Mishka Ziganoff
14. National Hora, , Pt. 1 - Abe Schwartz
15. Eyropeyishe Kolomeyke
16. Der Ziser Bulgar - Naftule Brandwein
17. Simkhas Toyre - Belf's Rumanian Orchestra
18. Naftule, Shpil Es Nokh Amol - Naftule Brandwein

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #401495 in Music
• Released on: 1993-01-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Album Description
The first of three volumes in Trikont's Klezmer series puts to shame the ones issued by Yazoo and Music & Arts. These early recordings of Naftule Brandwein, Dave Tarras, Josef Solinski, Leon Ahl, Abe Schwartz, Joseph Moskowitz, and many others on this 18-track retrospective reveal the deep and ancient roots of the Lineage Stammbaum. Culled from the personal collection of klezmer historian Dr. Martin Schwartz, the music presented here traces the movement of Jewish music around Eastern Europe from 1911 to the Shoah, Stalinism, and dispersion of Jews to other parts of the world where political forces and cultural assimilation all but destroyed this great music until the 1970s when it was recorded again. What took place before this time is part only of cultural memory; what happened between 1939 and the '70s is horrific. The Klezmorim were musicians. Klez, translated, means musician. Mer means song, and this we have klezmer music as the musician's song. The recordings here bare out why the definition is important; these are rigorous instrumental workouts, full of improvisation and tempo and mode changes, they are dizzying. 2005.

Customer Reviews

Best of the Best
Clarinetist and scholar Joel Rubin produced one of the finest anthologies of early 20th century Jewish instrumental music available. Great folk music with lots of spirit, meticulously annotated. I can't think of a better collection.