Giora Feidman & Gitanes Blondes Very Klezmer (2012)

Giora Feidman - Klezmer Celebration (1997) {pläne ‎88809}
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© 1997 Verlag "pläne" GmbH | ‎88809
World / Klezmer / Jewish Music / Clarinet

This CD has a surprising range of tracks on it. There is for exaple the very jazzy version of "happy birthday" that is just easy listened to, amongst others. On the other hand though, and that is what makes this CD so exceptional, there are these songs that talk of the jewish culture and the very special spirit it has. A spirit of graet pride and joy that always bears a touch of melancholy, even sadness, tells of loss. Fascinating is that Feidman tells us these stories soley through his clarinete, he is truly an exceptional player, not so much playing it but singing through it. Worth every single penny. Singular.

Giora Feidman - The Magic of the Klezmer (1990) {pläne ‎88708}
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© 1990 Verlag "pläne" GmbH | ‎88708
World / Klezmer / Jewish Music / Clarinet

This outstanding disc is an excellent introduction to this wonderful genre. Feidman's sensitive playing makes these tunes by turns melancholy and ecstatic. The simple, clear production serves the music well. This is the purest of folk musics; that is, music of the people with a universal appeal.

Giora Feidman - Viva El Klezmer (1991) {pläne ‎88712}
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© 1991 Verlag "pläne" GmbH | ‎88712
World / Klezmer / Jewish Music / Clarinet

Argentine-born and Israeli-based, Giora Feidman has become the leading interpreter and performer of Eastern European klezmer. Despite his classical training with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Feidman's clarinet playing is unrestrainedly and emphatically eclectic. ~ Leon Jackson.

Giora Feidman - The Singing Clarinet (1987) {pläne ‎88582}
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© 1987 Verlag "pläne" GmbH | ‎88582
World / Klezmer / Jewish Music / Clarinet

Feidman began his career in Buenos Aires as a member of the Teatro Colуn Symphony Orchestra. Two years later he immigrated to Israel to become the youngest clarinetist ever to play with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He was a member of the orchestra for over 20 years. In the early 1970s he began his solo career. He has performed with the Berliner Symphoniker, the Kronos Quartet, the Polish Chamber Philarmonic, the Munich Chamber Philarmonic Orchestra, and the Munich Radio Orchestra. In 1974 the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra commissioned composer Misha Segal to write a concerto for clarinet and orchestra for Giora Feidman. The one movement piece, which was based on an original Nigun, premiered that same year.

This, the first ever release on CD of the 1980 cult futurist / synth-pop album ‘Berlin Blondes’, collects together all of the electronic band Berlin Blondes’ commercially released studio output. The band only ever made one, albeit landmark, album. Notably, it was produced by the legendary Mike Thorne as a de facto career bridge between his celebrated work with post-punk band Wire on their first three albums and his subsequent career defining synth- pop productions, shortly thereafter, with pioneering electronic pop acts Soft Cell, Bronski Beat and B-Movie.

These three pieces are specimens of music written for the theatre in the Netherlands in the baroque era. They are very different in character, though. The largest work, with music by Carolus Hacquart, was composed for the celebrations of the Peace of Nijmegen of 1678 which brought the war between France and the Netherlands to a close. It is not known whether it was ever performed in the form which the composer had in mind.