We are five classically trained musicians - four singers and a pianist - with a passion for Yiddish music. We spent the past four years on our project of Yiddish folk song arrangements by "classical" composers and we are ready to record the album: Ahk, nit gut!

Point of departure is Dmitri Shostakovich's song cycle "From Jewish folk poetry" for soprano, mezzo and tenor - but there is a twist to it: We sing the songs with the original Yiddish texts! The album further consists of Viktor Ullmann's Brezulinka: Three Yiddish songs composed in the Theresienstadt concentration camp as well as songs by the father of the New Jewish School: Yoel Engel. Engel's songs have been arranged for our voices by British composer / singer Tyrone Landau who also sings the tenor parts.

We have performed parts of this program in 2018 with the title From Jewish Folk Poetry - Shostakovich and beyond.