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The maestro joins four klezmer groups: Brave New World, The Klezmatics, Andy Statman and the Klezmer Conservatory Band for a joyous get-together with unforgettable Klezmer melodies. As he says of the experience, “I caught the bug!” Want to see it all? Available from Angel Records, on CD and now DVD.
Duration : 0:10:35
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thelastcarousel
/ June 25, 2009I don’t think the …
I don’t think the first song sounds very Romanian at all. It sounds most definately like Klezmer. Klezmer is most definately very strongly influenced by the local music but it isn’t quite as similar as you make it out to be. Hungarian Klezmer doesn’t really sound like Hungarian music at all, show me one Hungarian Klezmer song thats sounds destincly Hungarian.
mgrig
/ June 25, 2009Most of the songs I …
Most of the songs I listened in romanian villages at “hora” (round dance. See 3:59 these are romanian as well as jew dances, from Eastern Europe. Besides, Perlman was a famous student of a most famous romanian director and composer, George Enescu. this is way…
Is any specialist here to clear us?
mauricelenoir
/ June 25, 2009Perhaps we should …
Perhaps we should look at Klezmer history:
The southern areas of the pale (Moldova, Bessarabia, the Bucovina region of Romania, and the southern Ukraine) were to klezmer almost as New Orleans was to American jazz. Gypsy, Greek and Romanian elements eventually became so predominant in Jewish dance music traditions that some scholars dismissed klezmer as a separate genre altogether….( American Klezmer by Mark Slobin; Page 13).
lanarv
/ June 25, 2009Thank you PERLMAN ! …
Thank you PERLMAN !!! for being so CONTAGIOUS ! I also feel very NATURAL! listening to KLEZMER music–the SOUL OF JEWISH SOCIETY !
naomiears
/ June 25, 2009i love the clarinet …
i love the clarinet in klezmer music.