Tsuzamen: Armenian, Yiddish and Gypsy music Sirba Octet

• 1 Mélodies du Karabagh / Koko doj Koko doj 08:15
• 2 Oj Tate / Eshkhemet 06:03
• 3 Kinderlekh, kleyninke 03:19
• 4 Le Shavore / Ghapama 04:23
• 5 Minioasa 02:16
• 6 Im Anouch Davigh / Kenats Yerg 06:00
• 7 Cilicia 04:40
• 8 A Glezele Lehaim / Dùj Sheja / Caravan / Veša Veša, A Me Tuha Nadživava 09:24
• 9 Stiller, Stiller 04:34
• 10 Banatseana 02:12
• 11 Ororotsayin, (Ari Im Sokhag) / Mamo Dado, Hajni Hajni 06:11
• 12 Guene Roma 05:02
• 13 Onter a kleyn boimele 01:55
• 14 Drey Terterlekh / Unzer Toirele 06:22
• 15 Geamparallele Lui Haidim 01:09
• 16 A Pastekhl 04:06
• Total Runtime 01:15:51

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Tsuzamen is a formidable testimony against the forgetting of genocides. That of the Jews, the Armenians and the gypsies, whose repertoires the Sirba Octet wanted to combine so that fraternity would be embodied in music.

If Yiddish music accompanies celebrations and rituals and gives rhythm to life's events, Armenian music, a mixture of folk and sacred music, evokes spirituality, philosophy and lyricism. Gypsy music, never absent from the ensemble's programmes, has been nourished by the music of the natives that the Roma, Gypsies and Manouches used to play alongside in their nomadic lives.

It is the echo of these cultures that the Sirba Octet assembles in an unprecedented way, bringing peoples and histories into dialogue by taking us on a journey from one language to another with virtuosity and sensitivity.

Richard Schmoucler, violin and artistic director Laurent Manaud Pallas, violin Grégoire Vecchioni, viola Claude Giron, cello Bernard Cazauran, bass Rémi Delangle, clarinet Christophe Henry, piano Iurie Morar, cimbalom

Sirba Octet
Founded by the violinist Richard Schmoucler and featuring seven more musicians drawn from the ranks of the most prestigious classical formations, the Sirba Octet has presented an original reinterpretation of the Yiddish and Gypsy repertory since 2003. The unique nature of the project championed by the Sirba Octet places it in a musical universe all its own that belongs to an entirely new genre, that of classical world music.

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