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'Festive Music of the Jews from the Botosani Region'

(ETHCD014)

Musicians:
CONSTANTIN LUPU -  vioara violin
Ion Roman „PeriSan" - vioara violin
Ilie Sotir „Berucai" - vioara violin
Vasile Ursache- vioara violin
Virgil Ciobanu - accordion
Petrica Oloieru - tamba cymbalom
Constantin Moro$anu - vioara secunda, second violin, vioara violin
Marian-Emanuel Schiopu - contrabas, double bass
Mitica Stefan-Anton - toba, drum, fluier flute

Label - Ethnophonie, Romania
Released 2007

With 36 page booklet in Romanian and English, including photos and information on the music and musicians.

From record label:
"This CD reconstructs and restitutes a segment of the music that used to be performed at Jewish parties in the region of Botosani (northern Moldavia, Romania) around the mid-20th century.

The reconstruction is, of course, imperfect. Up to a certain point, it is natural, as the instrumentalists featured on the CD are present-day people, too young to have listened to, or performed, music for local Jews themselves; too dynamic to accept the calm tempos of the past; too rigorous to adopt the slightly lascivious, multi-fluous timbres of the Jewish style. Nevertheless, the tunes are the result of "musical archeology" that rules out major errors, therefore they may be considered, without risk, as genuine.

However, listeners should not to be puzzled if they cannot find some of them in collections of Jewish music from other East-European regions, even from the vicinity of Botosani: the tunes in question may belong to a strictly local package of Israelite repertoire.

The significance of this CD is, above all, in the sound-scape it reconstructs, or maybe reinvents, with arguable skill. We hope that, all the same, there may be some interest in the fact that, through it, the authors cast a light on the way in which the non-Jews from Botosani perceived the music of their fellow citizens, memorized it, and- at least partly - handed it down to subsequent generations."

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'Festive Music of the Jews
from the Botosani Region'

(ETHCD014)

This symbol  indicates an mp3 sound clip for that track. Click on the symbol and wait for the clip to start. For more information click here. Tracks

A. Core Repertoire 1. Cantare de nunta, Wedding Song (2'38") 2. Cantare de petrecere, Parry Song (2'41") 3. Cantare de nuntalWedding Song (3'08") 4 - 5. Cantare de joc, Dance Tune (0'57") - (3'46") 6.-7. Cantare de nunta §i de petrecere, Wedding and Party Song (1'41) - (2'34") 8 - 9. Cantare de petrecere, Pariy Song (1'08") - (3'03") 10. Cantare de petrecere, Pariy Song (3'49") 11. Muzica de joc, Dance Music (2'44") 12. Cantare de joc, Dance Tune (3'21")

B. Co-territorial and National Repertoire 13. Cantare de nunta, Wedding Tune . (4'03") 14 - 15. Muzica de joc, Dance Music' Skrba (1'00") - (2'27") 16. Muzica de joc, Dance Music' Hora ( 2'53") 17. Muzica de joc, Dance Music' Hora ( 2'05") 18. Muzica de joc, Dance Music' Hora (3'02") 19. Muzica de joc, Dance Music' Sarba (3'12") 20. Muzica de joc, Dance Music' Hora nationala (1'06")

C. The Cosmopolitan Repertoire  21 - 22. Muzica de dans, Dance Music' Furtuna (0'29") - (1'56") 23. Muzica de dans, Dance Music' Polca (2'39") 24. C"antare de masa, Table Song (2'24") 25. Cantare de masa, Table Song (4'48") 26. Muzica de dans, Dance Music' Vals (2'54") 27. Muzica de dans, Dance Music' Polczr,ta (1'59")

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