ENSEMBLE WAKS: SOFIAS REISEN

Inge Mandos – vocals
Hans-Christian Jaenicke – violin
Klemens Kaatz – piano, accordion
Voices from wax cylinders

A concert evening dedicated to the Soviet-Jewish musicologist Sofia Magid (1892–1954), who, equipped with phonographs and recordable wax cylinders, archived the voices of Yiddish singers in the shtetls of Ukraine.