Various Artists - RefugeAmerica has been a unique place of refuge and safety for Jews from around the world for hundreds of years. In no other place in history have Jewish communities been able to thrive as they have in the US. Each of the composers whose music included in this album came to the US as refugees fleeing anti Semitism. In America they found refuge. Their contributions to American music are manifold. For most of the pieces presented here, this is the world

with the most recent released in 2001

Eva Zaicik and her partners in Le Consort celebrate the prodigious variety of the Handelian genius and introduce us to previously unrecorded arias by Ariosti and Bononcini: 'We are captivated by the ghostly sonorities of 'Stille amare

In these times

we had all jumped off the sinking ship and found our ways back to shore

timeless blues

In this anthology accompanied by the ensemble Sezione Aurea

The ensemble "Talenti Vulcanici"

"Chickery Chick"

Thirteen misfits

made up of songs left over from The Unraveling sessions and new ones written and recorded since

New York Times' CDs of the Year/ "Performance: * Recording: * 'Beuron

In their formative years he taught them the fundamentals that have been at the core of their abilities