Re: Question: Modzitz cd

[robert wiener <wiener...>]

Simon and others,

What do you think of David Werdyger's recordings of Boyaner, Gerer,
Satmerer, and Skulaner Nigunim?  Are there more?  Are they still
available?  (My copies are on Aderet cassettes.)

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Klezcorner (at) aol(dot)com <Klezcorner (at) aol(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Monday, January 04, 1999 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: Question: Modzitz cd


>
>In a message dated 1/4/99 7:26:03 AM, you wrote:
>
><<I've hear older vinyl recordings of Modzitzer niggumin and the
compositions
>of
>Ben Zion Shenker, but I don't really enjoy the more recent cd's I've
hear with
>all the (overly) lush orchestrations and the like.  Does anyone know
if there
>are any Modzitzer cd's that are more "plain" as it where?
>Thanks,
>Dennis Gura
>dengura (at) aol(dot)com
>>>
>
>I second that! Years ago,there were so many great nigunim. It's a
shame that
>what is now considered "chassidic" music is nothing more that some of
the
>worst"disco-rock" synthesised music ever created. A disco-rock song
with
>"...Moshiach" or "...Yerusholayim" in the lyric does NOT a chassidic
song
>make!!!! Unfortunately, most of the 'old" chassidic' music is gone, I
have a
>few on vinyl, but they're not even playable any more.
>Simon
>Hatikvah
>