NAXOS RECORDING:

ABRAHAM ELLSTEIN 
Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage, Vol. 1
(with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra conducted by maestro Elli Jaffe)

"The performances are nothing short of terrific. The Milken Archives have done things up with a ribbon and a bow. Nothing chintzy here. The singers all know how to put over a song, and, amazingly...Elizabeth Shammash, Nell Snaidas, and Amy Goldstein play the ingenue in love, each from their own point of view...One of my favorite Naxos discs. I'm on the lookout for volume 2."

 --Classical CD Review, March 2004
Click here for the full review

"Amy Goldstein is gorgeous in a romantic duet with Simon Spiro from Ellstein's 1946 Second Avenue Theatre musical, 'Ikh Bin Farlibt' ('I'm in Love')."

NAXOS RECORDING:

GERSHON KINGSLEY, 
including the world premiere recording of Voices From the Shadow

Produced by 2005 Grammy award winner David Frost, winner of Classical Producer of the Year for his work on the Milken Archive/Naxos recordings.  Read about David Frost's Grammy triumph here.

NAXOS RECORDING:

BAY MIR BISTU SHEYN 
Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage, Vol. 2
(with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra conducted by maestro Elli Jaffe)

To hear Ms. Goldstein sing two entire songs from this CD visit www.milkenarchive.org/ and click the photo where it says Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage Vol. 2. Two of the six tracks performed by Ms. Goldstein on this CD can be heard on the Milken website, and they are tracks no. 10 and 13.

"It is much too common to view the Holocaust simply as a kind of horrible statistic -- millions dead in Nazi gas chambers. Gershon Kingsley's CD "Voices From the Shadow" avoids this problem. It is a cycle of 17 songs, with texts in various languages (with translations) written by prisoners in the death camps. It introduces us to a 16-year-old girl (sung by soprano Amy Goldstein) dreaming of her first dance and waking up "still a captive."  The statistics become individuals, and all the harrowing, intensely human reality of the Holocaust overwhelms the listener."