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572256 bk Winterreise 27/10/09 10:26 Page 12 A YIDDISH WINTERREISE 1 Traditional: Khosn bazingns (Singing for the bridegroom) 2:10 2 Mordecai Gebirtig (1877-1942): S’brent (It’s burning)* 5:12 3 Samuel Bugatch (1898-1984): A zemer (A song)* 4:06 4 Alexander Olshanetsky (1892-1946): Vilne (Vilna)* 3:45 5 Mark Warshavsky (c.1845-1907): Oyfn pripetshik (By the fireplace) (arr. A. Knapp, C. Haran-Smith) 5:56 6 Levi Yitzchok (1740-1810): Vos vet zayn az moshiach vet kumen A YIDDISH (What will happen when Messiah comes?) (arr. Max Persin) 2:38 7 Janot S. Roskin (1884-1946): Der rebe hot geheysen freylekh zayn (The rabbi has bid us be happy) 1:26 8 Abraham Goldfaden (1840-1908): Shulamis: Rozhinkes mit mandlen (Raisins and almonds)* 3:47 WINTERREISE 9 Janot S. Roskin: Yerusholayim (Jerusalem) 3:08 0 Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Winterreise: Di lipe (Der Lindenbaum) 5:24 ! Traditional: Tumbalalayke (Play, balalaika)* 3:04 @ Mordecai Gebirtig: Moyshele mayn fraynd (Moyshele, my friend) (arr. H. Anik) 5:38 A Holocaust Survivor’s # Morris Goldstein (d. 1906): Hot a yid a vaybele (If a Jew has a wife) (arr. J. Kammen) 1:01 $ Abraham Brudno (d. 1944): Unter dayne vayse shtern (Under Your white stars)* 4:12 Inner Journey Told % Janot S. Roskin: Khatskele 0:55 ^ S. Gozinsky (fl.c. 1928): Habeit mishomayim (Look down from the heavens)* 4:44 Through Yiddish Song & Moshe Nadir (1885-1943): Der rebe Elimelekh (Rabbi Elimelekh)* 2:47 * Janot S. Roskin: Der zeyger (The clock) 2:08 ( Mordecai Gebirtig: Kinder yorn (Childhood years) (arr. J. Kammen) 3:13 ) Mordecai Gebirtig: Kleyner yosem (Little orphan)* 4:35 ¡ Traditional: Un a yingele vet zey firn (And a little boy will lead them)* 3:45 ™ Mordecai Gebirtig: A malekh vert geboyrn (A child is born)* 3:17 £ Traditional: Kaddish 2:43 * Arranged by Alexander Knapp Mark Glanville, Bass-baritone Alexander Knapp, This recording was made with the support of the European Association for Jewish Culture, Sheep Meadow Press, and the German Embassy in London. Piano 8.572256 12 572256 bk Winterreise 27/10/09 10:26 Page 2 I see the house before me A cow will look for food with a bear, Of all forms of human self-expression, music is the Where I was born and raised A snake will approach a child with good will, most universal. Transcending the divisions of history, I seem to see my cradle there But we have been poor guardians up to now culture and race, it speaks from heart to heart and tells Standing in the same place. The child lies dead, burned to ash. of the joys and sufferings which form our common Like a dream it has all flown away. The mother climbs out of the depths of the bunker humanity. ) Kleyner yosem (Little orphan) Turns to you wringing her hands, Text: Mordechai Gebirtig (1877-1942) Oh prophet bring the End of Days As we set out on the Yiddish Winterreise, we enter into a bring to life the boy who lies burned. very special world. From the innocence of childhood to Don’t cry little orphan. Save your tears although you suffer ™ A malekh vert geboyrn (An angel is born) the melancholy of old age, from the joys of family life Because life has only misery. Text: Mordechai Gebirtig (1877-1942) to the bitter desolation of the Vilna Ghetto, the unique Oh! How horrid when tears fail you. Jewish experience is affirmed here with a warmth and Is it true, mummy, vigour which only make more vivid the long centuries Store your tears like diamonds. Grandpa swore it, of persecution and their terrible climax. One day you will need them badly. That with every Kaddish I say When your heart overflows, An angel is born Let a tear fall from your eye And with the little angels This collection of songs is both a celebration and a cry of Daddy is talking? anguish. But as an act of self-expression, it is also Sleep now, little orphan, Oh mummy, never again will I healing. It reaches out to the world, and offers its gaiety, Drain my blood away no more. Forget to say Kaddish. Hunger will not torment you its pain and sorrow, like a hand of friendship. The music In sleep you will feel good. Is it true, mummy, on this recording, so intensely and sensitively interpreted I heard it from grandpa, by Mark Glanville and Alexander Knapp, is not only an It might be much better That the little angels are playing extraordinarily rich and moving record of Jewish life and For you, my orphan, and for me With daddy in Paradise, If you slept forever, And daddy delights in them culture; it is also a contribution to reconciliation and And I your father beside you. As he used to delight in me? understanding, and to our shared future. Oh mummy, never again will I Don’t cry, little orphan Forget to say Kaddish. Oh! How horrid when tears fail you When your heart is full of sorrow £ Kaddish And your eyes are empty. Text: Traditional ¡ Un a yingele vet zey firn (And a little boy will lead them) Glorified and sanctified be God’s great name throughout the Georg Boomgaarden Text: ‘H. Leivick’ (Leivick Halpern, 1888-1962), after Isaiah world which He has created according to His will. May He establish His kingdom in your lifetime and during your days, German Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s Dream your dream again, and within the life of the entire House of Israel, swiftly and Great prophet soon; and say Amen. May His great name be blessed forever Appear again above ruined walls. and to all eternity. Don’t worry that the one who’s calling you sits weary He is weeping for the little boy who was burned. Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, extolled and honored, adored and lauded be the name of the Holy One, A wolf shall dwell together with a sheep blessed be He, beyond all the blessings and hymns, praises and The little boy will lead them by the hand. consolations that are ever spoken in the world; and say, Amen. Meanwhile come prophet, bring comfort to the mother Who weeps and weeps for her burned child. English translations by Mark Glanville and Heather Valencia A leopard will lie down with a kid Both should recognise each other The mother rocks an empty cradle, sings lullabies The little boy lies dead, burned to ash. 8.572256 211 8.572256 572256 bk Winterreise 27/10/09 10:26 Page 10 Poverty’s not good With his beadle Reb Naftole A Yiddish Winterreise Let us not be ashamed And called for Of our own flesh and blood. His drummers twain, A Holocaust Survivor’s Inner Journey Told Through Yiddish Song She wasn’t invited but came alone, And when the drumming drummers Though she’s poor she’s still an aunt. Drummed drummingly Yiddish Folk and Art Music Poverty’s not good… They really drummed drummingly… ^ Habeit mishomayim (Look down from the heavens) When rabbi Elimelekh The roots of Yiddish culture may be traced to the Melodies are usually simple, implying conventional Text: S. Gozinsky (fl. c.1928) Grew even happier medieval poetry and song of the troubadours. In the nineteenth-century German classical harmony. Most He took off his gown Middle Ages, German Jews were forced to seek songs are in the Western “minor” key, though many are Look down from the heavens and see Put on his cap How the gentiles mock and scorn us, And called for his religious refuge in Eastern Europe. Though they brought in the Ashkenazi Hashem Moloch, Mogen Ovos, Regard us as sheep led to the slaughter Cymbalon players twain, very few German musical elements, they did take with Ahavoh Rabboh, or Mi Shebeirach cantorial modes of To kill, destroy, eliminate and curse. And when the cymbalonging cymbalonists them their Judeo-German vernacular language, and this the synagogue. Though these melodic frameworks often Look down from heaven and see Cymbaloned cymbalongingly proved to be an immensely important factor in the express an ethos of sadness, many songs are, in fact, Look down from heaven and see They really cymbaloned cymbalongingly… shaping of traditional Eastern-Ashkenazi song. Many jolly and even triumphant. Form and rhythm are mostly How your children are beaten How your children are struck * Der zeyger (The clock) local dialects and pronunciations of Yiddish came into clear-cut, though some songs may include one, or more They are driven to ruin. Text: Traditional being over the centuries in Eastern and Central Europe, than one, passage in an improvised style. An extremely Take swift vengeance upon them whereas in Western Europe it gradually declined. important factor is the intense and sometimes Eastern For the blood of your poor children Tell me, gilded hour, From the Middle Ages until the nineteenth century, Mediterranean voice production, with its associated Convince them that You What is your anguish and pain? Will no longer stay silent Explain your illness to me, Eastern Ashkenazi Jews were usually segregated into ornamentation (e.g. the krekhts). Yiddish folk-songs can Look down from heaven and see What can be the matter with you? designated areas of habitation, Shtetls, villages in many be either secular or religious, and they can be sung by You are clad in gold and jewels, parts of Eastern Europe and notably the Pale of men and by women – sometimes together, sometimes Since Jewish faith Studded with expensive diamonds Settlement in Western Russia, and Ghettos, walled and separately (as in the more strictly observant Was born.