Music for Passover

This is the first post I recall on something like this. Its a great idea. There has been some great music listed. There is a lot of great passover stuff on lp (Jan Peerce and Richard Tucker were both cantors - and friends of my dads, so we have all their lps). I would strongly echo the post on the songs from the hagaddah, they are beautiful melodies and help me make sure my kids recall the story.

In the more secular sense, before the seder started we listened to Allison Krause + Union Station Live and Rose Marie Clooney Girl Singer(stunning even though I don't have sacd capabilities yet). Then the mozart flute Quartets on Chandos (susan milan).

Finally for great humor When Your in Love the Whole Worlds Jewish and the slightly meshugas Woody Allen Stand up comic - especially the moose.

On a sadder note we discussed the fire bombing in Montreal to remind the kids that persecution of those that are different never ends, it seems.

Hag Sameach (sic)

Gary

Fatparrot - with all that is now in the pot, I'd have to call, sit back, and laugh for several hours before dealing another hand! :-)

As they say in poker, I've got the "nuts"...Buddy Hackett!

I know this sounds like a long shot but how about singing the songs that are in the haggadah.

....AND a Stanley Myron Handelman! :-)

OK, Rosstaman, I'll see your Lenny Bruce and raise you another Jackie Mason.

4yanx, I'll see your Myron Cohen and raise you a Lenny Bruce. ;-)

Fatparrot, I'll see your Alan Sherman and raise you a Myron Cohen. :-)

For dessert, why not try some good Yiddish humor! Try to find any of the Alan Sherman ("Camp Grenada") LP's from the early to mid 1960's.

What does a mostly vegetarian do on Passover?

A recording I love well in this ethnic tradition is Alia Musica's 'El Canto Espiritual Judeoespanol' (Harmonia Mundi, HMI 987015). Lovely and moving pieces from a Spanish Sephardic tradition. It is recorded slightly dark but it fits the music.

For some well recorded and beautifully played Jewish klezmer music you should check out "Songs of our Fathers" on Acoustic Disc by Andy Statman and David Grisman. Andy has a number of other klezmer releases, too.

If you like your music on overdrive, I'd recommend a young klezmer/gypsy band called Les Yeux Noirs. The two brothers on violin are absolutely amazing.

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Good pesach!
Itzhak Perlman's: Fiddler's In The House.