Together with the NDR Pops Orchestra, Esther Ofarim presents her repertoire - timeless in the sense of an independence of trends and tastes.

The first meeting with Esther Ofarim was like a step back into the future. This is how it appeared to me, when I sat in front of her in spring 2005 in a restaurant in Hamburg. Some weeks earlier I read a review of her concert in the Alte Oper in Frankfurt. As soon as I landed I started my search for her.
It reminded me of 1968, when I saw Baden Powell on TV performing at the Berliner Jazztage. The next day I started a long search to bring this guitar player on tour. In the case of Esther Ofarim some phone calls were sufficient to find out, that she was not willing to go to record in a studio and that she hasn't done this for a long time.
I had of course my memories of the 1960's, of her hits and songs, that brought to Germany with her for the first time an idea of world music, folk music arranged as pop songs. Americans would have called this Folk and in America she had recorded her first songs. It was the time of Bob Dylan and Arlo Guthrie, and in Germany Degenhardt, Süverkrüp and Wader held their legendary meeting at Burg Waldeck.
A meeting of legends at Tropical Music? In all cases it was a very vivid meeting. The 66 musicians of the NDR Pops Orchestra weaved a wonderful soft and clear carpet that made Esther Ofarim's voice very present. She switches between genres and styles singing Jewish lullabies alongside with well known tunes from Kurt Weill, Paul McCartney and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
Esther Ofarim / Back on Stage 03Two names - one orchestra. The NDR Pops Orchestra is one of the most important philharmonic orchestras in Germany. Based in Hanover, it celebrated in May 2000 its 50th birthday, and it is known for its vast repertoire, that reaches from great symphonic oeuvres to the so called music of entertainment (Musical, Scores, Operetta) and also to contemporary music. Also Jazz and Pop music is a part of the orchestras programme and it can be heard since 1998 in several crossover-productions, when it met with stars of the international Rock and Pop scene.

Track Listing

• Layla Layla
• Dirty Old Town
• Besade Patuach
• Somewhere Over The Rainbow
• Ten Li Yad
• September Song
• Speak Low
• She's Leaving Home
• Bird On A Wire
• Pavane
• In Germany Before The War
• A Taste Of Honey
• Shir Hanoded
• Shir Eres & Do Do
• Me'emek Legiv'a
• Morning Of My Life
• Mad About The Boy
• Nr. 5: Gruss 'Leise Zieht Durch Mein Gemüt'
• Guten Abend, Gut' Nacht

Additional Details

Label: Tropical Music

Genre: Pop/Rock

Language: English

Run Time: 61:57 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 02/06/26

UPC: 764916885228