Description

The new work by renowned pianist and composer Evgeny Kissin features nine Yiddish poems penned by his friend, author and lyricist Boris Sandler (*1950). Kissin's folksong-like settings capture the prevailing mood of each poem, from the subtle, cryptic humor of titles like "Sternlein mit Mandeln" (Little stars with almonds) and "Wenn der Kopf kein Topf ist" (When the head isn't a pot), to the more profound "Moschl-Kaposchl" and "Was weiss ich" (What do I know). This Henle edition presents the Yiddish song texts in Hebrew letters and Latin transliteration, with German and English prose translations provided in an appendix, making the material accessible to amateur music-lovers to sing and play.