Gd 157 JEWISH SONGS from BULGARIA CD
JEWISH SONGS FROM BULGARIA CD
Issued: 1994
Style: ethno music
Company: Gega New GD157
The first CD of its kind released in Bulgaria and representing songs of the Bulgarian Jews in the three languages practised in this country - Yddish (Ashkenazi, German Jews), Ladino (Sepharadim, Spanish Jews) and Hebrew.
Prof. Nikolai Kaufmann, the eminent Bulgarian composer and scholar, has traced, written down and arranged the lyrical songs, both sacred and everyday in function. He has turned them into artistic miniatures for choral performance, with solo cues in some of them. The songs are performed by The Voices of VITIZ Group, the famous Bulgarian choirs "Vassil Arnaudov" and "Hristina Morfova", Folk Group of the Ensemble for Thracian Songs and Dances - Yambol, "Alteration" Mixed Choir from Pleven, etc. The CD is not only of musical and artistic value, but it is also an invaluable contribution to the historiography of the song genre which has existed and still exists in the Balkans, the dialect songs of Bulgarian Jews in particular.
Contents:
• Mazal tov (Yiddish)
•Two Old Love Songs (Sephardic)
•Song without Words (Yiddish)
•Oye joya (Sephardic)
•Noches, noches (Sephardic)
•Ia keria (Sephardic)
•Adio, querido (Sephardic)
•Esterina Sarfati (Sephardic)
•Durme, durme (Sephardic)
•In ades (Sepharadic)
•Es brennt (Yiddish)
•Galana (Sepharadic)
•Esta montaña (Sephardic)
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