Cantor David Berger, Joyce Rosenzweig – Refuge (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]

Cantor David Berger, Joyce Rosenzweig – Refuge (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]

America has been a unique place of refuge and safety for Jews from around the world for hundreds of years. It has not always been the perfect “Goldene Medine” (Golden Land) of immigrant lore. But, in no other place in history have Jewish communities been able to thrive as they have in the United States. An immigrant people in an immigrant land, most American-Jewish families can trace their ancestors’ arrivals at Ellis Island or other ports of entry to the early 20th century.

Albis Quartett – Klaus Fischer-Dieskau: String Quartets No. 1 & 4 (2021) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]

Albis Quartett – Klaus Fischer-Dieskau: String Quartets No. 1 & 4 (2021) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]

Klaus Fischer-Dieskau (Berlin, 2 January 1921 – 19 December 1994) was a German church musician and director of the Berlin Hugo-Distler Choir 1953-1989. He was the older brother of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

The Hugo-Distler Chor Berlin was founded by Klaus Fischer-Dieskau in 1953 and is to be distinguished from the Hugo Distler-Chor Wien, directed by Alois Glassner, and Hugo Distler-Chor Hannover founded by Müller-Scheffsky (1952). He also worked as a recordings producer for Deutsche Grammophon in Berlin.