Jewish Travels: A Historical Voyage in Music & Song

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Label
ARC Music
Release Date
May 26, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Massel Klezmorim
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 26, 2017
    • UPC
      5019396272729
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      EUCD2727
    • LABEL
      ARC Music
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      World & International
    Works ⌄

    1. Hora

      Composer: Peter-Wolfgang Fischer

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    2. Spilt se mir a Lidele in jiddisch

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    3. Avre tu puerta serrada

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    4. Sephardic Elegy

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    5. Der Rebbe Elimeylech

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    6. Draj Techterlech

      Composer: Mordecai Gebirtig

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    7. Gemalim

      Composer: Peter-Wolfgang Fischer

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    8. Papir is doch waiss

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    9. Un as der Rebbe singt

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    10. Di Kale basetzn

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    11. Wi bist du gewejn

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    12. Lower East Side

      Composer: Peter-Wolfgang Fischer

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    13. Niggun Chassidi

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    14. Zen Brider

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    15. Ale ale Ljule

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    16. Dire Geld

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    17. Der jiddische Fiddler

      Composer: Lutz Elias

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    18. Dona Dona

      Composer: Segunda

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    19. Händchen

      Composer: Kalman Liz

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    20. Sog nischt kejnmol

      Composer: Hirsch Glick

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    21. Jerushalajim shel zahav

      Composer: Naomi Shemer

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    22. Jamin usemol

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim

    23. Kol dodi

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Massel Klezmorim


Lutz Cassel came in touch with the culture of his ancestors for the first time in the early 1960s. This was during song contests at the Castle “Waldeck” in Germany. Although he had no idea of his background (he had been raised in the Christian faith) the music touched him deeply and from this time onwards he began to collect everything connected with Jewish culture and especially with Jewish music and to adapt it for his performances in folk clubs. Step by step he developed a repertoire of songs and also the idea to describe the history of the Jewish people and its music and culture. By and by Lutz started to season his performances with jokes, anecdotes and stories from the thousands of years of history of this people, which consists of more than just the Bible, the Roman Empire and the Holocaust. Lutz was often dissatisfied with the fact that singers of Yiddish songs in Germany generally only described the modern history of the Jews. The origins of the songs were not explained and therefore only a few people understood their meaning. His successes in many small cabarets encouraged him to combine history, stories and music. He did this not in the then popular way of many singer/songwriters, with a moralizing undertone, but with humor and irony- the typical self-irony of Jewish humor. This release is a live recording of a concert which took place in the Hamburg Music Hall for the Hanukkah Celebration of 1986.