Klezmer Concertos & Encores (Milken Archive of American Jewish Music)
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Edition: Music CDAudio: German (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2003-09-23
Music Label: Milken Archive
Soundtracks:
- T'fillot (Prayers)
- Rikkudim (Dances)
- Manginot (Melodies)
- Hakdashot (Dedications)
- I. - Scott Goff
- II. - Scott Goff
- The Maypole - Unknown
- Canzonetta - Unknown
- Hassidic Dance
- Rocketekya
Music reviews of Klezmer Concertos & Encores (Milken Archive of American Jewish Music)
Music Review: One Clarinet Doth Not a Klezmer Concert Make
Rating: 4 Stars
I ordered this CD unheard because it includes a quartet by Osvaldo Golijov, an adventuresome young Argentine composer whose music frequently incorporates his Jewish and Hispanic heritages into his thorough modernism, with novel and exciting results. As it turns out, his piece, titled Rocketekya, is the most outstanding selection.
What's klezmer about this music, you ask? Chiefly it's the clarinet, played in the distinctive style of Eastern European Jewish celebratory music by David Krakauer, in a context of "regular" classical idiom. The effect is whimsical, like having Zero Mostel playing godfather at a Christian baptism.
The first and largest composition, Robert Starer's four-movement K'li Zemer, deserves to be called a concerto - in effect, a soloist of one musical culture declaiming eloquently in concert with an orchestra of another culture. I like it. I suspect I'll listen to it often, as I will the Golijov. The three compositions that separate Starer from Golijov, are truly encore pieces, interesting enough to hear once at the end of a fine performance but not substantial enough to hear again and again.
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Description of Klezmer Concertos & Encores (Milken Archive of American Jewish Music)
K?li zemer means "instrument of song" in Hebrew, and a traditional klezmer was an instrumental musician who entertained at weddings and other festive occasions in Jewish life. In recent times, the extraordinary popularity of "klezmer music" has inspired virtuoso showpieces for clarinet and flute by leading contemporary composers. Klezmer Concertos celebrates this joyous musical tradition with concert works from the 1940s to the present day.Classical CDs
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