Brave Old World - Song Of The Lodz Ghetto

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Today is the Holocaust Memorial Day, dedicated to the remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust. The chosen date is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by the Soviet Army in 1945.
This is an opportunity to show our respect for the survivors of Nazi persecution and mass murder, and to listen to what they can tell us about the best and the worst of human behaviour.

So here´s "Song Of The Lodz Ghetto" recorded live in Bordeaux by New Jewish Music quartet "Brave Old World".
Developed over the last 15 years, "Song of the Lodz Ghetto" is a unique musical work, a song cycle in which memory and imagination freely interact to create a Proustian journey between present and past. At the center are "Brave Old World's" arrangements of the rare Jewish street and cabaret songs from the Nazi ghetto of Lodz, Poland (occupied by Germany), 1940-44. Leading through the Lodz repertoire like stepping-stones through the river of memory are "Brave Old World's" own original compositions, reflections on 17 years of performing Jewish music. Michael Alpert's moving "Berlin 1990" forms the emotional and musical counterpoint to the passionate and ironic street songs of the bard of the Lodz ghetto, Yankele Herszkowicz. A musical and spiritual journey of resistance, love, and reconciliation. The superior recording quality of this CD is matched by outstanding cover art by Steve Byram and Warren Linn, as well as detailed song texts and liner notes in Yiddish, English, and German.

Brave Old World - Songs Of The Lodz Ghetto
(95 MB, 192 kbps)