Re: essential klezmer cds

[Jeremy Bloom <jeremyb...>]

I would definitely add "marriage of heaven and earth"

It is a little hard to find but it has all the 'major players of klezmer'
all on one CD. There is some GREAT music plus the liner notes are more
accurately described as a short book on the history of klezmer which was
very well done 


On 1/20/04 4:25 PM, "Eric Myrvaagnes" <myrvaagnes (at) mindspring(dot)com> 
wrote:

> To Ari's list I would add a few that showcase individual instruments:
> Definitely Alicia Svigals' "Fidl", Adrianne Greenbaum's "Fleytmusik".
> Margot Leverett's "The Art of Klezmer Clarinet", Elaine and Susan Hoffman
> Watts' "I Remember Klezmer" (which includes a 1968 Xylophone track by
> Elaine's tate, Jacob Hoffman), and two Budowitz CDs, "Mother Tongue" and
> "Wedding Without a Bride".
> 
> Eric
> 
> At 03:26 PM 1/20/2004, you wrote:
> 
>>> If you were to recommend 10 CDs to a budding klezmerologist that
>>> accurately represent the best of the various strains over the past 25
>>> years--traditional, modern, and so on--which 10 would you choose?
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>>> Mine includes Izhak Perlman, Shirim's "Klezmer Nutcracker,"....
>> 
>> 
>> As much as I love the Klezmer Nutcracker, I think of it more as a
>> curiosity (albeit wonderfully done and performed) that distracts attention
>> from the first two Shirim CDs, which are very different, and each quite
>> essential. The second CD, "Naftule's Dream" (later chosen by the band as
>> the name for their avant garde, post-klezmer band-name) was one of the
>> original "essential" klezmer CDs with which the KlezmerShack was begun -
>> in support of an article for the Whole Earth Review which needed the
>> obligatory (in 1995) "support webpage".
>> 
>> The other five CDs that seemed to represent the diversity of that time
>> still stand up as worth listening to (or better), although the world
>> continues to expand:
>> 
>> Brave Old World / Beyond the Pale (but, as with the Klezmatics, below, I'd
>> have no trouble suggesting the new album, "Bless the Fire")
>> Kapelye / On the Air (the precursor to Henry's wonderful Yiddish Radio
>> Project - this, too, shouldn't be forgotten)
>> Klezmatics / Jews with Horns (today I would happily suggest the latest:
>> "Rise Up!")
>> Klezmer Conservatory Band / Yiddish Renaissance (which I think =has= been
>> overshadowed, especially by albums in the last five years, but is still
>> wonderful)
>> Andy Statman-David Grisman / Songs of our Fathers (never my personal
>> favorite, but an album that people continue to mention to me)
>> 
>> ari
>> 
> 
> 
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