Jewish Cabaret in Exile | Cedille Records CDR90000110

Jewish Cabaret in Exile

Label: Cedille Records

Cat No: CDR90000110

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 25th May 2009

Contents

Artists

New Budapest Orpheum Ensemble

Artists

New Budapest Orpheum Ensemble

About

On this new CD, the University of Chicago-based troupe offers the fruits of its latest research into Jewish popular music of the early to mid-20th century - repertoire that is “often funny and always fascinating” (Audiophile Audition) - and the culture that produced it. The ensemble performs piquant songs of love, lament, observational humour and social satire with an “engaging zest” (Fanfare) that has charmed concert audiences in the U.S. and Europe.

The program includes songs by Hanns Eisler, Victor Ullmann, Friedrich Höllander, and many others.

Contents:
I – The Great Ennui on the Eve of Exile
Edmund Nick & Erich Kästner: The Well-Furnished Morals

II – The Exiled Language — Yiddish Songs for Stage and Screen
Moses Milner: In the Cheder
Mordechai Gebirtig: Abe, the Pickpocket
Abraham Ellstein: Deep as the Night

III – Transformation of Tradition
Hanns Eisler: From Zeitungsausschnitte, Op.11 (Newspaper Clippings)

IV – The Poetics of Exile: Songs by Hanns Eisler and Kurt Tucholsky

V – Traumas of Inner Exile
Viktor Ullmann: Three Yiddish Songs (Březulinka), Op.53

VI – Nostalgia and Exile
Georg Kreisler: Poisoning Pigeons
Hermann Leopoldi and Robert Katscher: I’m an Irrepressible Optimist
Misha Spoliansky/Marcellus Schiffer: Tonight or Never

VII – Exile in Reprise
Friedrich Holländer on Stage and Film, Lyrics by Theobald Tiger (Kurt Tucholsky)

New Budapest Orpheum Ensemble:
- Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano
- Stewart Figa, baritone
- Ilya Levinson, piano
- Iordanka Kissiova, violin
- Henry Tausend, drums
- Stewart Miller, bass
- Philip V Bohlman, artistic director

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