Klezmer Violinists, vol. 1 (3rd edition), by Oscar Zehngut and Max Leibowitz

Klezmer Violinists, vol. 1 (3rd edition)

by Oscar Zehngut and Max Leibowitz

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1.	Rumänische Dojna, I. Teil [Romanian Doina, part I.] 02:29	info	buy track
2.	Anonymous “violin un tsimbel” [Oscar Zehngut, violin, with unknown tsimbler] - Dem Pastukhel’s Doina (teyl 1) [The Shepherd’s Doina, part 1] 02:42	info	buy track
3.	Anonymous “violin un tsimbel” [Oscar Zehngut, violin, with unknown tsimbler] - Dem Pastukhel’s Doina (teyl 2) [The Shepherd’s Doina, part 2] 02:35	info	buy track
4.	Oscar Zehngut, violin (with uncredited pianist) - Orientalisher Motiv 1. 03:03	info	buy track
5.	Oscar Zehngut, violin (with uncredited pianist) - Orientalisher Motiv 2. 03:03	info	buy track
6.	“Josef Solinski”, pseudonym for Oscar Zehngut, violin - Rumänische Fantasien 1 Teil [Romanian Fantasies, part 1] 02:47	info	buy track
7.	“Josef Solinski”, pseudonym for Oscar Zehngut, violin - Rumänische Fantasien 2 Teil [Romanian Fantasies, part 2] 02:47	info	buy track
8.	“Josef Solinski”, pseudonym for Oscar Zehngut, violin - Rumänische Fantasien 3 Teil [Romanian Fantasies part 3] 02:45	info	buy track
9.	“Josef Solinski”, pseudonym for Oscar Zehngut, violin - Rumänische Fantasien 4 Teil [Romanian Fantasies part 4] 03:18	info	buy track
10.	“Josef Solinski”, pseudonym for Oscar Zehngut, violin - Orientalische Motive 1. Teil  [Oriental Motifs part 1] 03:15	info	buy track
11.	“Josef Solinski”, pseudonym for Oscar Zehngut, violin - Orientalische Motive 2. Teil  [Oriental Motifs part 2] 03:04	info	buy track
12.	Max Leibowitz, violin with Philip Friedman, piano - Yidish Khusedl 03:20	info	buy track
13.	Max Leibowitz, violin with Philip Friedman, piano - Yidisher Tants 03:19	info	buy track
14.	"Maks Leybovitsh–Silvers tsimbel begl." [Max Leibowitz–Silver's dulcimer acc(ompaniment)] (1919) - Orientalishe Melodien (1te teyl) [Oriental melodies (part 1)] 03:08	info	buy track
15.	"Maks Leybovitsh–Silvers tsimbel begl." [Max Leibowitz–Silver's dulcimer acc(ompaniment)] (1919) - Orientalishe Melodien (2te teyl) [Oriental melodies (part 2)] 03:20	info	buy track
16.	"Maks Leybovitsh–Silvers tsimbel begl." [Max Leibowitz–Silver's dulcimer acc(ompaniment)] (1919) - Behusher Khosid 03:17	info	buy track
17.	"Maks Leybovitsh–Silvers tsimbel begl." [Max Leibowitz–Silver's dulcimer acc(ompaniment)] (1919) - Yidish Hora - A Heymish Freylekhs 03:15	info	buy track

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The first and second editions of this collection were created and distributed on cassettes beginning in the late 1980s. With each new edition it has grown and been improved through access to better sources and better transfers of this archival material.
This collection was created as resource material for musicians exploring 'klezmer music' but many find it so delightfully soulful and expressive that it's worth listening to just for its own sake, in spite of the limited audio quality of these old recordings.

An important feature of this edition is the clarification of the identity of a violinist previously known to us as Josef Solinski. That name appears on three phono disks of material recorded in Eastern Europe, probably in Warsaw, prior to 1914.
That name, and the similarity of some of those recordings to others issued anonymously or under the name of another performer, was a source of confusion for many years and involved several stages of development. The first of those stages is the work done by Sandra Layman in the early 1980s to find and copy of as many as possible of the known recordings of klezmer violinists. Sandra was generous in sharing the results of her efforts, so that copies of cassettes with the material she had gathered circulated among other aficionados. The documentation that accompanied these cassettes was not consistent or complete, with the result that there were questions about several items in that collection as to titles, performers' names, record labels, etc... Some of those questions remained unanswered for years. Meanwhile, as interest in klezmer music grew, further recordings were found including some attributed to Solinski that bore a striking resemblance to others recorded by Oscar Zehgut. Around 2015, prompted by questions from Mike Aylward (producer of the CD "Chekhov's Band") researchers Joel Rubin, Kurt Bjorling and Jeffrey Wollock made a series of discoveries that made it clear that 'Josef Solinski' (about whom there is no historical information other than six recorded pieces issued by various companies on three phono disks) must be a pseudonym for Oscar Zehngut, about whom there is plenty of documentary evidence as well as living descendants. (One of these descendants provided Bjorling with the photo of Zehngut that appears here in this album posting.)

Further details about these recordings and discoveries are given in the notes to some of the individual pieces in this album.

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released January 27, 2023

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