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Sandra Bessis, on the traces of Sephardi music

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY FEBRUARY 11, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Since the end of the 1980s, the singer Sandra Bessis has performed regularly on stage to bring to life the Sephardic repertoire to which she has already devoted 5 albums …

The Matrouz by Simon Elbaz

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JANUARY 14, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. A native of Morocco, Simon Elbaz, declines and renews the Matrouz repertoire by crossing languages (Hebrew, Arabic, French, Latin, Judeo-Spanish...) and genres (music, song and theatre) …

The routes of klezmer : Sirba Octet or World Classical

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - DECEMBER 17, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. By abolishing the borders between classical music, klezmer music and Yiddish song, Richard Schmoucler, founder of the Sirba Octet, reinvents an original and unprecedented musical genre, that of "World Classical" …

Jewish music and mystic

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY OCTOBER 22, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. This show aims to study the relation between Jewish music and mystics, with Franklin Rausky, conference master at the Strasbourg's University and director of studies at the Elie Wiesel Institute in Paris …

Charles-Valentin Alkan, from Jewish faith to modernity

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2013, Judaïques FM (94.8), 21h05. Musicologist Anny Kessous Dreyfuss introduces us to Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888), a composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher whose talent was often compared to that of Chopin or Liszt …

Jewish-Portuguese Music – The musical traditions of the ancient Marrano communities from South West of France

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JULY 2, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. In this programme, illustrated with numerous sound examples, the musicologist Hervé Roten presents the fascinating history of the musical traditions of the Portuguese Jewish community of south-west France …

Klezmer, Gypsy : a common musical story

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY MAY 7, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. A fascinating story with commentary by Astrid Ruff and illustrated with many samples of klezmer and gypsy music …

The Jewish work of Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986)

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY MARCH 12, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. With Mireille Tansman Zanuttini (daughter of the composer) and the musicologist Cédric Segond-Genovesi, on the occasion of the release of Alexandre Tansman's memoirs published by the Editions Aedam Musicae …

Purim or Esther’s holiday in music

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8). This radio program, commented and supervised by the cantor and Rabbi Jacques Arnold, offers an unprecedented musical vision of the festival of Purim: readings of the Megillat Esther in different traditions to popular and children's songs, from Purim-Shpil to art music - such as Esther's oratorio (1774) of Lidarti …

The Jews from Iran and their music

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JANUARY 15, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Disovering Jewish music from Iran, with Alain Chaoulli, author of a PhD on the Jewish musicians in Iran in the 19th and 20th centuries, and their contribution to the safeguard of the Iranian musical heritage …

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