Memorial Hall Library

Yiddishbbuk, Osvaldo Golijov

The first work was written in 1991 on hearing news of Astor Piazzoll's stroke; the second work is a set of variations on a Yiddish lullaby composed for the film The man who cried; the third work is based on a collection of apocryphal psalms; the fourth work is based on a manuscript by Isaac the Blind, the great kabbalist rabbi of Provence; the last movement is an instrumental version of the composer's K'vakarat"EMI classics"--ContainerCompact discProgram notes (by the composer) and biographical notes in English, French, and German inserted in container

digital storage

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Producer, Max Wilcox

4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter

This recording was made possible in part by a grant from the Susan Rose Recording Fund for Contemporary Jewish Music of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.

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CDC 7243 5 57356 2 1 -- EMI Music Canada

St. Lawrence String Quartet ; Todd Palmer, clarinets ; Tara Helen O'Connor, flute ; Mark Dresser, double bass ; Ying Quartet

1 audio disc (70 min.), digital, 4 3/4 in.

digital recording

sound disc

1.4m. per second (discs)

(Sirsi) 804486(OCoLC)50391234

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