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& Yuval Yaron: Hebrew Melody - Joseph Achron Op. 33

ניגון ברדיצ'וב - יהודה גרין

Music: Eli Zion
Composer: Leo Zeitlin
Artists: Musicians of the Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival
Album: Leo Zeitlin: Yiddish Songs, Chamber Music and Declamations
Street Date: August 2015
Label: Toccata Classics TOCC0294

A member of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St Petersburg, Leo Zeitlin (1884–1930) was known mainly for Eli Zion, a classic of Jewish art-music. Zeitlin died only seven years after emigrating to New York, still a young man, and his reputation languished until the recent discovery of a trunk full of scores brought his music back to light. This album attempts to remedy decades of neglect, especially for his charismatic Yiddish song-settings for voice, strings and piano. Zeitlin’s powerful declamations – Romantic piano music underscoring spoken Yiddish and Russian poetry – points to a genre that once was popular and is now forgotten.

Leo Zeitlin: Eli Zion

Havdala (Yehuda Green)

Berklee College of Music's Klezmer and Yiddish Music Ensemble's concert, including songs "Nahkt in Gan Edyn," "A Nign," "Oy Tate," "Ketsele Baroiges," and many other songs.

Klezmer and Yiddish Music Ensemble Concert

A suite of 5 Sephardic and/or Bosnian Ladino songs I arranged from composer and singer Flory Jagoda's book of melodies.

& Yuval Yaron: Hebrew Melody - Joseph Achron Op. 33

Helene Jeanney

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