Yiddish Glory - The Lost Songs of World War II '2018

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In the middle of World War Two, the ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky (1892
– 1961) discovered the existence of many songs written by military and
civil people who described the misfortune that happened to Russian Jews. At the
head of a group of scientists, he started to gather and record them. During a
purge orchestrated by Stalin, they were arrested and their equipment was
confiscated. These songs, forgotten for decades, have reemerged during the 1990s
in the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, where they were stored in
anonymous boxes. At the start of the following decade, Anna Shternshis—a
historian specialized in Yiddish studies—learnt of their existence and
associated herself with musician Psoy Korolenko to bring them back to life.
Halfway between musical reconstruction and pure creation, the results are
convincing. Around Psoy Korolenko, a Russian-Canadian cast makes those gems
shine beautifully.

At the center, there is the gypsy violinist trio Loyko, founded by Yehudi
Menuhin’s former collaborator, Sergei Erdenko, who also pens part of the
arrangements. On the sides, you’ll notably find David Buchbinder, a
trumpet player who won a Juno Award—the Canadian equivalent of a
Grammy—and a handful of high-level soloists (violin, guitar, accordion
and clarinet). Center stage, alternating with Korolenko, jazz vocalist Sophie
Milman—also winner of a Juno Award—, Latvian Jewish singer Sasha
Lurje, as well as the son of producer Dan Rosenberg, Isaac, who performs the
moving Mames Gruve (‘My mother’s grave’ in English), on a
text written by an orphan whose parents disappeared during the Holocaust. But
the Yiddish soul, combined to gypsy ardor and Slav agitation, rejuvenates,
brings back to the foreground and joyfully carries these folk songs toward the
light that they almost never saw.

Tracklist:
4:02 | 01. Yiddish Glory, Loyko, ALEXANDER SEVASTIAN, Psoy Korolenko - Afn
Hoykhn Barg (On the High Mountain)
2:42 | 02. Yiddish Glory, Loyko, ALEXANDER SEVASTIAN, Sophie Milman - Shpatsir
in Vald (A Walk in the Forest)
6:21 | 03. Yiddish Glory, Loyko - Yoshke Fun Odes (Yoshke from Odessa)
6:31 | 04. Yiddish Glory, Loyko, Sophie Milman - Kazakhstan
2:53 | 05. Yiddish Glory, Loyko, ALEXANDER SEVASTIAN, Psoy Korolenko - Mayn
Pulemyot (My Machine Gun)
1:56 | 06. Yiddish Glory, Loyko, ALEXANDER SEVASTIAN, Psoy Korolenko -
Shelakhmones Hitlern (Purim Gifts for Hitler)
2:51 | 07. Yiddish Glory, Loyko, Sophie Milman - Taybls Briv (Taybl’s
Letter to her Husband at the Front)
3:10 | 08. Yiddish Glory, Loyko, Psoy Korolenko - Misha tserayst Hitlers
Daytchland (Misha tears apart Hitlers Germany)
3:02 | 09. Yiddish Glory, Loyko, Sophie Milman - Chuvasher Tekhter (Daughters of
Chuvashia)
2:25 | 10. Yiddish Glory, Loyko - Mames Gruv (My Mother’s Grave)
4:16 | 11. Yiddish Glory, Loyko, Psoy Korolenko - Babi Yar
4:10 | 12. Yiddish Glory, Loyko, Sophie Milman - Tulchin
3:57 | 13. Yiddish Glory, Loyko, Psoy Korolenko - A Shturemvind (A Storm Wind)
2:57 | 14. Yiddish Glory, Psoy Korolenko - Fir Zin (Four Sons)
5:07 | 15. Yiddish Glory, Loyko - Kazakhstan (Reprise)
2:43 | 16. Yiddish Glory, Loyko, ALEXANDER SEVASTIAN, Psoy Korolenko - Nitsokhn
Lid (Victory Song)
1:54 | 17. Yiddish Glory, Psoy Korolenko - Homens Mapole (Haman’s Defeat)
3:40 | 18. Yiddish Glory, Loyko, ALEXANDER SEVASTIAN, Sophie Milman, Psoy
Korolenko - Tsum Nayem Yor 1944 (Happy New Year 1944)

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