Kolsimcha - The World Quintet
Kolsimcha - The World Quintet is a Swiss Klezmer - band .
Band history
The band started in 1986 under the name Kol Simcha in Switzerland as a duo with Josef Bollag and David Klein . They were interested in klezmer and played at weddings. The success was so great that they started giving concerts.
Over the years the band grew to five musicians - Michael Heitzler ( clarinet ), Olivier Truan ( piano ), Ariel Zuckermann ( flute , previously Roman Glaser and Niki Reiser ), Daniel Fricker ( bass ), and Christoph Staudenmann ( drums , previously Fabian Kuratli (deceased) and David Klein) - whereby Josef Bollag has become the manager of the band and no longer plays.
The name Kolsimcha (Kol: voice, Simcha: joy) is taken from a blessing that is spoken at Jewish weddings. Since the group now mainly plays in concert halls and not at weddings, they called themselves The World Quintet for a long time . In the spring of 2007 the band followed the original name again and is now called "Kolsimcha - The World Quintet".
Discography
- Kol Simcha (1988)
- Traditional Jewish Music (1990)
- Contemporary Klezmer - Voice of Joy (1993)
- Crazy Freilach (1996)
- Symphonic Klezmer (1996)
- Klezmer Soul (1997)
- Live! (2000)
- Gripsholm (Soundtrack) (2000)
- The World Quintet (2002, with the London Mozart Players & Herbert Grönemeyer ) (DE: Gold in the Jazz Award)
- Selma - Wrapped in Longing (2005), poems by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
- Noah (2007)
- Kolsimcha & London Symphony Orchestra (2013)
swell
- ^ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Association of the Music Industry, accessed on June 16, 2016
Web links
- Official homepage of Kolsimcha - The World Quintet
- Report, pictures and video clips from the World Quintet concert for the album “Selma - Wrapped in Longing”