Alexander Krein: 10 Yiddish Songs performed by Lucy Fitz Gibbon and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough

Alexander (Aleksandr) Krein’s 10 Yiddish Songs Op. 49 אַלכּסנדר (אַלעקסאַנדער) קריין ־ צען ייִדישע לידער A performance of Alexander Krein’s Ten Yiddish Songs Op. 49 (~1937). Performed by singer Lucy Fitz Gibbon with pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, these 10 songs reimagine Yiddish folksong texts and melodies in rich and imaginative arrangements for piano and voice. Born in 1883, Krein was raised in a family of musicians and performed cello with his father’s Klezmer band. After studying at the Moscow Conservatory where Krein enrolled at age 13, he became an active member of the Moscow branch of the Society for Jewish Folk music. Krein wrote music that was more harmonically adventurous than many of the other composers, taking influence from mode