CD Hungry Hearts/Joel Rubin (Jewish/klezmer)

[Joel Rubin/Rita Ottens <simontov...>]

Announcing new CD release:

Joel Rubin
Hungry Hearts. Classic Yiddish Clarinet Solos of the 1920s
Schott Music & Media GmbH Wergo SM 1615-2  (281 615-2)

Joel Rubin, clarinet * Michael Alpert, violin * Stuart Brotman, string bass
* Hankus Netsky, piano * Lisa Rose, tsimbl * Moishe Yerushalimsky, trombone

The pieces on Hungry Hearts, the sixth CD production in Rita Ottens and
Joel Rubin's Jewish Music Series for Schott Music and Media's Wergo label,
were recorded in 1986 and 1988 in New York and Berkeley. Originally
released as an audio cassette under the title Brave Old World, Hungry
Hearts is a document of the spirit of cultural awakening, joy and vitality
which characterized the first decade of the American Yiddish Revival. In
the Joel Rubin Klezmer Band, American clarinetist and ethnomusicologist
Rubin brought together present and former members of Kapelye, The Klezmorim
and the Klezmer Conservatory Band to create the first "all-star Klezmer
Band", as one critic wrote enthusiastically at that time. With this group,
from which he later formed Brave Old World, Rubin concentrated exclusively
on the classic American-Yiddish clarinet solos of the 1920s using a typical
instrumentation of solo clarinet, piano, string bass, violin and trombone.
In addition, pianist and jazz composer Lisa Rose, Rubin's partner from
1982-1985 in the duo The Old Country, can be heard as guest tsimbalist on
two pieces. With the magical expressive quality of Rubin's clarinet and the
jazzy verve of the accompaniment, these performances generate an atmosphere
which makes Hungry Hearts one of the most beautiful recordings of Eastern
European Jewish instrumental music to date. 

For musical examples, reviews and further information on the present Joel
Rubin Jewish Music Ensemble, the Schott Wergo Jewish Music Series, Trikont
Klezmer Trilogy, and publications of Joel Rubin and Rita Ottens, vist the
JCPR web site at:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/simontov

Also available in the JEWISH MUSIC series:

The Joel Rubin Jewish Music Ensemble 
Beregovski's Khasene 
Forgotten Instrumental Treasures from the Ukraine 
SM 1614-2/CD
"Unique" (Spiegel Extra, June 1997)
"a remarkable re-creation of a lost musical world and a timely reminder of
the expressive possibilities of sensitive musicianship ... absolutely
first-class"
(Gramophone, November 1997)
"the true heir of the legendary klezmorim. ... this is music-making for the
sake of the music!" (Jewish Daily Forward, April 1998)
"without a doubt, Rubin's newest recording belongs to the most striking and
noble publications of klezmer music (Dos Yiddishe Vort, Warsaw, March 1998)

The Epstein Brothers Orchestra. Kings of Freylekh Land. 
A Century of Yiddish-American Music 
SM 1611-2/CD
Music from the award-winning film A Tickle in the Heart
" An absolute must!" (Musikblatt, December 1995)
"They still swing like mad ... the first professional world-beat
musicians..." (RhythmMusic, January/February 1997)

Joel Rubin 
with the Epstein Brothers Orchestra
Zeydes un Eyniklekh
Jewish-American Wedding Music from the Repertoire of Dave Tarras
SM 1610-2/CD
Music featured in the acclaimed film Me and My Matchmaker
"Forget Mendelssohn if you're looking for the ultimate disc of joyful
wedding music" (Boston Phoenix, 24 November 1995)
"essential" (Folk Roots, November 1995)

Rubin & Horowitz
Bessarabian Symphony
Early Jewish Instrumental Music
SM 1606-2 / CD
"very pure ... authoritative" (Wall Street Journal, 28 December 1994)
"... A major document ... the best available introduction to the Old World
klezmer repertoire" (Ethnomusicology, Fall 1996)

Juedische Lebenswelten/Patterns of Jewish Life
Highlights from the Concert Series "Traditional and Popular Jewish Music",
Berlin 1992
SM 1604-2 / 2 CDs
"not only of value for its high standard of documentation, but also for the
rare music which it contains" (Die ZEIT, 18 March 1994)
"... a whirlwind tour of the 'real' thing, spanning continents and
generations" (Jewish Currents, New York)

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Jewish Cultural Programming and Research GbR
        Joel Rubin Jewish Music Ensemble
        Klezmer Music - A Microcosm of Yiddish Culture
        Chemjo Vinaver Collection

Joel Rubin * Rita Ottens
e-mail: simontov (at) compuserve(dot)com
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/simontov
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