Dalia Schaechter, Christian von Götz - Gebirtig: Yiddish Songs (2020)

Tracklist

01. Hey, klezmorim
02. Undzer shtetl brent
03. Kinder-yorn
04. Der zinger fun noyt
05. Kivele
06. Trili trilili
07. Hey, tsigele
08. Di Gefalene
09. Avreml der marvikher
10. Reyzele
11. Baym taykhele
12. Dray tekhterlekh
13. Azelkhe tsvay goldene tsep
14. Avremele un Yosele
15. Yankele
16. Dos Lidl fun goldenem land
17. Mayn Yovl
18. A glezele vayn
19. Shlof shoyn mayn kind


The Yiddish composer Mordechai Gebirtig wrote songs about life in the Jewish neighborhood of Kazimierz in the city of Krakow, Poland. The songs tell stories about rabbis and factory workers, gangsters and lovers. “During the day he polished furniture, at night he polished songs,” said his contemporaries. Gebirtig was shot by Germans in the Krakow Ghetto on June 4th, 1942. For the Gebirtig Project, opera-singer Dalia Schaechter and opera-director Christian von Gotz collected the most important of his songs in an intense and personal recording. Some of the songs are recorded for the first time.

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