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Jewish Cabaret in Exile

CDR 90000 110

DDD
NEW RELEASE

Playing time: 78'58"
Tracks: 25
Booklet pages: 64
© 2009 Cedille Records
Reviewer: Jennifer Paull
Review of Jewish Cabaret in Exile published on 5 July 2010

Listen: Bügerliche Wohltätigkeit (track 13, 2:04-2:59)

New Budapest Orpheum Society:
Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano
Stewart Figa, baritone
Ilya Levinson, piano
Iordanka Kissiova, violin
Henry Tausend, drums
Stewart Miller, bass
Philip V Bohlman, artistic director

I - The Great Ennui on the Eve of Exile

Edmund Nick (1891-1973) and Erich Kästner (1899-1974):
Die möblierte Moral (The Well-Furnished Morals)

1 Die möblierte Moral / The Well-Furnished Morals
2 Das Wiegenlied väterlicherseite / The Father's Lullaby
3 Die Elegie in Sachen Wald / Elegy in the Forest of Things
4 Der Gesang vom verlorenen Sohn / The Song of the Lost Son
5 Das Chanson für Hochwohlgeborene / The Chanson for Those Who Are Born Better
6 Der Song 'man müßte wieder ...' / The Song 'Once Again One Must ...'

II - The Exiled Language - Yiddish Songs for Stage and Screen

Moses Milner (1886-1953):
7 In Cheider / In the Cheder

Mordechai Gebirtig (1877-1942):
8 Avreml, der Marvikher / Abe, the Pickpocket

Abraham Ellstein (1907-1963):
9 Tif vi di Nacht / Deep as the Night

III - Transformation of Tradition

Hanns Eisler (1898-1962):
from Zeitungsausschnitte, Op 11 (Newspaper Clippings)

10 Mariechen / Little Marie

11 Kriegslied eines Kindes / A Child's Song of War

IV - The Poetics of Exile: Songs by Hanns Eisler and Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935)

12 Heute zwischen Gestern und Morgen / Today between Yesterday and Tomorrow

13 Bügerliche Wohltätigkeit / Civic Charity

14 Zuckerbrot und Peitsche / Sweetbread and Whips

15 An den deutschen Mond / To the German Moon

16 Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit / Unity and Justice and Freedom

17 Couplet für die Bier-Abteilung / Couplet for the Beer Department

V - Traumas of Inner Exile

Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944): Three Yiddish Songs (Brezulinka) Op 53 (1944)

18 Berjoskele / The Little Birch

19 Margaritkele / Little Margaret

20 Ich bin a Maydl in di Yorn / I'm Already a Young Woman

VI - Nostalgia and Exile

Georg Kreisler (born 1922):
21 Tauben vergiften / Poisoning Pigeons

Hermann Leopoldi (1888-1959) and Robert Katscher (1894-1942):
22 Ich bin ein unverbesserlicher Optimist / I'm an irrepressible Optimist

Misha Spoliansky (1898-1985) / Marcellus Schiffer (1892-1932):
23 Heute Nacht oder nie / Tonight or Never

VII - Exile in Reprise - Friedrich Holländer (1896-1976) on Stage and Film

24 Marianka

25 Wenn der Mond, wenn der Mond ... / If the Moon, if the Moon (Lyrics by Theobald Tiger (Kurt Tucholsky)

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