Ostjüdische Volkslieder für eine mittlere Singstimme und Klavier
A video of a performance of Wilhelm Grosz's Ostjüdische Volkslieder, recorded at Out of the Shadows Festival, Madison Wisconsin.
Ostjüdische Volkslieder für mittlere Singstimme und Klavier (no opus)
Composed in March 1926 by Wilhelm Grosz, this collection of Yiddish folksongs was never published. Grosz sourced the texts and melodies from an important ethnographic folk song collection made by Fritz Mordecai Kaufmann (1888-1921). Kaufmann's collection does not include German translations, but in the manuscript Grosz supplies his own translations underneath the Yiddish texts (which are transliterated for the convenience of the musicians).
Jessica Kasinski (mezzo-soprano) and Thomas Kasdorf (piano) perform Wilhelm Grosz's Ostjüdische Volkslieder für eine mittlere Singstimme und Klavier (1926), at a concert entitled Wilhelm Grosz - Lieder and Piano Music, held in May 2016 at the First Congregational Church, Madison Wisconsin as part of Out of the Shadows Festival. The songs in the collection are as follows:
I Unzer rebenyu
II Gevaldzhe brider
III Er hot mir tsigezugt
IV Zitsen zitsen ziben vayber
V Amol iz geven a kleyn yidele
VI Vuzhe vilstu
VII Ikh bin a balegole
This performance lasts approximately 15 minutes 10 seconds.