Rubin & Horowitz. Bessarabian Symphony: Early Jewish Instrumental Music, 1994 (SM 1606-2)
CD out of print; available as download only. Presently only availabe at amazon.uk (sorry!).
“a major document of the so-called ‘klezmer revival’ … Both the repertoire and the performances … are well-researched, serious and elegant. … Much more than a reproduction of a corpus of old recordings, it can serve as the best available introduction to the Old World klezmer Repertoire”
(Walter Zev Feldman, Ethnomusicology)
“very pure … authoritative”
(Wall Street Journal)
“Go out of your way to find this recording”
(Jewish Herald Voice)
“clean as a whistle … a more differentiated sound than is possible in a large ensemble. If you tire of the big-band sound prevalent on many klezmer recordings, this CD is a welcome antidote”
(Sing Out!)