The Magic of the Klezmer

Giora Feidman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 23, 2000)
• Label: Plane
• ASIN: B000006ARW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #873,901 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Songs Of Rejoicing: Ele Chomdo Libi/Yismechu Hashamayim/Yossel, Yossel

2. Ki Mizion

3. The Mothers In Law

4. Happiness Is A Nigun

5. Papirossen

6. With Much Sentiment

7. Frilling

8. The Market Place In Jaffa

9. Hopkele

10. Nigun

11. A Dudele

12. Music From 'Ghetto': Tsen Brider/We Live Forever/My Mother Longed To Be There On My...

13. Humoresque 'Halaka' Dance

14. Gershwin Suite

15. Freilach

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The humanity of a clarinet, March 26, 1999

By 

Mario Boschetti ([e-mail]) (Vicenza, Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Magic of the Klezmer (Audio CD)

Places, persons, times and situations which are lost in the recent past, overwhelmed by a recent tragedy... all of this without losing that auto-irony which charachterizes the spirit of the klezmers and, more widely, of the whole yiddish speaking tradition. The listnenig to this outstanding CD suggests all of this to us. Those who look for a perfect, classical-music-like performance will never appreciate this CD. On the other hand, if you are really attracted by all what concerns humanity, by its imperfections and irregularities, that make mankind so wonderful because unrepeateble, and all, this CD fits you wonderful! Feidman's clarinet neither sounds nor sings: that's the reason why its being out of tune fascinates us, instead of annoying. In fact, Feidman's clarinet represents the voice of an entire people, therefore it reflects vices and virtues of the human beings in which this people consists: sometimes it shouts and chatters like a gossip, sometimes cries like a hurt woman or a child, sometimes even scolds and reproaches like a terrible "yiddish mame", sometimes grumbles like an old man, sometimes prays and meditates like a rabbi. Happiness as well as sorrow, the sweetest fellings as well as the toughest ones pervade the music of all the tracks, but above all a subtle irony still hovers as a catharsis: maybe a reminder that, all in all, nothing in life is worth being kept too seriously, and nothing, what concerns men, is uncapable to be seen with a detached smile. What people, better the the Jews, could teach this? The voice of Feidman's clarinet will strike direct into your heart.