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Caribbean Moods / Various
Washabalal Umhlaba / Various
Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch
Tchaikovsky: The Voyevoda & Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6
Pergament: Den judiska sången (The Jewish Song)
Celebrating Emperor Tewodros II
Pacific Chants
El Amar
Christmas in Ireland
Egyptian Bellydance: Afrah baladi
A tiempo real: A New Take on Spanish Tradition
Best of Cuba
Music of the Persian Mystics
Folk Songs & Sacred Music from Nepal: Field Recordings by De
Flamenco Andalucía
Master of the Chinese Erhu
Music from Iraq: Babylonian Fingers
Latin Rhythms
Åke Hodell ?– Spirit Of Ecstasy / The Way To Nepal
Amalia Classics on Portuguese Guitar / Castelo
The Sound of Nova Scotia: Music of Scottish Canada / Campbell
Taiko Do: Echo of the Soul / KyoShinDo
Producer Joji Hirota writes: “The Italian taiko group KyoShinDo is very unique in their approach to taiko music. They are not only taiko drummers, but also karate experts. Their mentor, former karate champion Luciano Parisi, has influenced them enormously. I met the group in 2003 when they came to see my concert at Genoa’s Mediterranean Music Festival. They were fascinated by taiko music as an ensemble, both its sound and its movements. I have been teaching them for over ten years in the techniques of both traditional and contemporary Japanese taiko music. Their skills as karate experts adds a unique flavour to the technique I teach: taiko with a martial arts touch. I trust that their drive and ambition to develop further makes them one of the great and most unique taiko groups. I am proud to present KyoShinDo to the world.”
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier / Beethoven: Fidelio
Yiddish Songs With Chutzpah / Bronstein
Hilda Bronstein’s passionate dedication to Yiddish Song stems from her close connection to the language that she learned as a child. She sees these songs as a cultural storehouse of Jewish history and identity. Her early training as a singer at the Royal College of Music in London, and her later work as an academic in English Language and Literature together inform her expressive interpretation of the music and words of these evocative songs. Since 2004, when she made her tentative return to the music of her childhood, she has become one of Europe’s leading interpreters of Yiddish Song. After the success of her previous album, Yiddish Songs Old and New, she competed in the International Jewish Music Festival at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw in 2008 and was awarded the Mira Rafalowicz Prize for the ‘Best Interpretation of Yiddish Song’. For this album, Hilda has joined forces with a group of talented instrumentalists who share her love of Yiddish song as well as the exciting sounds of klezmer and swing. The collaboration has enabled Hilda to expand her repertoire of beautiful traditional Yiddish melodies and new songs from Eastern Europe. She has also added a number of exuberant up-beat numbers from the days of New York Yiddish Theatre, and demonstrates the resilience of Yiddish song by bringing this album firmly into the twenty-first century with the cool beat of ‘Yener Langer Zumertog’. As on her previous album, Hilda uses her original Polish dialect on some tracks and the standard ‘Litvish’ or Lithuanian dialect on others. While her natural tendency is to the native Polish Yiddish of her childhood, she prefers the Litvish in those songs where the meaning and rhymes of the lyrics seem to demand it.
