2006/2007 Season Special Tour Project


Classic Klezmer

I Musici de Montreal
Yuli Turovsky, Artistic Director & Conductor

"...every player was not only alert but brilliantly assured. It is hard to do justice to the effect of such playing, vividly committed from top to bottom..." Financial Times, London

In Collaboration with Kleztory
Airat Ichmouratov clarinet
Alain Legault guitar
Elvira Misbakhova violin
Mark Peetsma double-bass
Henri Oppenheim accordion

"Kleztory forms is a solid, tight, high-quality ensemble. Energy flows between the group and their audience." Le Droit, Ottawa

Classic Klezmer is an exciting program that includes both classical and Klezmer works for orchestra and traditional instrumentalists. Works include: Ernst Bloch’s Concerto Grosso #1; Prokofiev’s Jewish Overture op.34; Bloch’s Three pieces for Cello and Strings From Hassidic Life with Yuli Turovsky, Cello Soloist; Selections of Traditional Klezmer Music featuring Kleztory and the snappy orchestral accompaniment of I Musici de Montreal: Vi bist du gevezn far prohibition; Odessa Bulgar; Dem trisker rebins khosid; Going Home; Omer Tantz; Violin Doina; Fun Tashlik; Dem Rebin's Nigun, Oy Tate. 

Klezmer is the traditional music of the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe, born of a Yiddish culture that has today almost disappeared. It has evolved over the centuries, serving as a conduit for the Jewish soul, and as a salve in times of great misfortune. Over the past thirty years there has been an unprecedented surge in the music’s popularity throughout the world -- certainly fueled by its addictive mix of soulful emotion and upbeat excitement displayed by the performers red-hot virtuosity. A great many rich influences -- the music of the synagogue, Hasidic and gypsy music, Central European and Greco-Turkish dances, local folk music -- have been distilled down the centuries to create the many-faceted music we hear today.

Tour Dates: 
April 12-22, 2007
(additional dates may be available upon request)

For more information on engaging I Musici de Montreal's Classic Klezmer program with Kleztory  contact: Martha Woods, Vice President, Jonathan Wentworth Associates, Ltd. at 301/277-8205 mjws@jwentworth.com or call our main office in New York at 914-667-0707.