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Beregovksi Suite

Uli Geissendoerfer

Label: Vegas Records
Released: 2018
Duration: 00:59:00
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Tracks

1. Lightning 04:33 2. Dawn 03:52 3. Lament 03:22 4. Illyad 05:08 5. Fugue for B 02:58 6. The Plea 03:46 7. First Night 02:35 8. Market Day 04:22 9. Lover's Dance 05:44 10. Rumshinsky 03:22 11. Winter Dance 04:05 12. Patshtants 01:48 13. Kinder In Shul 02:39 14. Conversations with a Rebbe 03:43 15. A Hero's Report 03:04 16. Big Bear 02:55 17. Dawn Reprise 00:56

Personnel

Uli Geissendoerfer

piano

Alicia Svigals

violin

Illya Magalnyk

accordion

Vanderlei Pereira

drums

Additional Personnel / Information

Violin – Alicia Svigals, vocals on First Night and Big Bear Piano - Uli Geissendoerfer With Guest Artists Illya Magalnyk - Accordion on 1, 4, 7, 16, Vanderlei Pereira – Pandeiro on 8

Album Description

In the 1930’s a Jewish scholar from the Ukraine named Moshe Beregovski set out, with eerie prescience, to collect and preserve the deep and rich Jewish musical tradition around him. On what turned out to be the eve of the destruction of European Jewry, Beregovski organized expeditions to Ukrainian “shtetlekh” (small Jewish towns) and sought out the eldest singers and instrumentalists he could find, asking them to pour their collective folk knowledge into his recording horn. In this way he managed to make thousands of recordings of beautiful Jewish folk songs, Klezmer dance tunes and religious melodies on hundreds of wax cylinders, the medium of the day. A few years afterwards, the culture he had documented was destroyed in the Holocaust, and Beregovski himself was arrested and sent to the Gulag. He never saw his work published in his lifetime, and for decades it was thought that those precious and important recordings were gone forever as well. But in , with the opening of the Soviet Union, the cylinders were unearthed in a dusty archive in Kiev, and now those long-forgotten melodies and voices are beginning to speak to us again. *** Violinist Alicia Svigals is the world’s foremost klezmer fiddler and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics, who has collaborated with artists ranging from Itzhak Perlman to Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. Pianist and Arranger Uli Geissendoerfer is a Grammy–nominated Jazz and World Music pianist and composer and founder of Vegas Records. Together Svigals and Geissendoerfer perform the melodies rescued by Beregovski, in settings that recreate the lost world which gave them birth, and at the same time re-contextualize them for the 21st century. credits released February 4, 2018 Arranged by Uli Geissendoerfer & Alicia Svigals Edited by Uli Geissendoerfer Mixed and mastered by Peter Karl August 2017 Pictures and package design by Tina Chaden

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