Mark Glanville, bass-baritone ; Alexander Knapp, piano
"Sequence of songs from the Yiddish repertoire devised by opera singer and cantor Mark Glanville, recreating the original, Schubertian journey in a Holocaust context. The singer relfects on the life and world has has just seen destoryed as he flees the Vilna ghetto"--Container.
Arrangements in part by Alexander Knapp.
Compact disc.
Program notes and texts in English in container.
Recorded Feb. 2-3, 2008, Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, UK.
Khosn bazingns = Singing for the bridegroom / trad. (2:10) -- S'brent = It's burning / Mordecai Gebirtig (5:12) -- A zemer = A song / Samuel Bugatch (4:06) -- Vilne = Vilna / Alexander Olshanetsky (3:45)-- Oyfn pripetshik = By the fireplace / Mark Warshavsky ; arr. A. Knapp, C. Haran-Smith (5:56) -- Vos vet zayn az moshiach vet kumen = What will happen when Messiah comes? / Levi Yitzchok ; arr. Max Persin (2:38) -- Der rebe hot geheysen freylekh zayn = The rabbi has bid us be happy / Janot S. Roskin (1:26) -- Shulamis. Rozhinkes mit mandlen = Raisins and almonds / Abraham Goldfaden (3:47) -- Yerusholayim = Jerusalem / Janot S. Roskin (3:08) -- Winterreise: Di lipe = Der Lindenbaum / Franz Schubert (5:24) -- Tumbalalayke = Play, balalaika / trad. (3:04) -- Moyshele mayn fraynd = Moyshele, my friend / Mordecai Gebirtig ; arr. H. Anik (5:38) -- Hot a yid a vaybele = If a Jew has a wife / Morris Goldstein ; arr. J. Kammen (1:01) -- Unter dayne vayse shtern = Under your white stars / Abraham Brudno (4:12) -- Khatskele / Janot S. Roskin (:55) -- Habeit mishomayim = Look down from the heavens / S. Gozinsky (4:44)-- Der rebe Elimelekh = Rabbi Elimelekh / Moshe Nadir (2:47) -- Der zeyger = The clock / Janot S. Roskin (2:08) -- Kinder yorn = Childhood years / Mordecai Gebirtig ; arr. J. Kammen (3:13) -- Kleyner yosem = Little orphan / Mordecai Gebirtig (4:35) -- Un a yingele vet zey firn = And a little boy will lead them / trad. (3:45) -- A malekh vert geboyrn = A child is born / Mordecai Gebirtig (3:17) -- Kaddish / trad. (2:43)