Hervé Roten's Programs

Confluence{s} : the encounter of Jewish and French melodies

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – DECEMBER 19, 2017, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. At the beginning of the 20th century, the encounter between French melody and Jewish music, whether popular or religious, produced works of rare intensity: Ravel and his Kaddish, but also Darius Milhaud and his Jewish poems, Paul Martineau and his Quatre mélodies hébraïques or Elsa Barraine and her Quatre chants juifs …

Vienna – Paris – Hollywood : songs of exile

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2017, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Radio program dedicated to stage music written by Jewish exiled composers from Vienna and Germany (Weill, Glanzberg, Hollaender, Korngold…) in Paris and Hollywood after the growth of Nazism …

Jewish music in the 20th century for cello and piano

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY OCTOBER 24, 2017, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Radio program dedicated to the music for cello and piano, written by composers of the 20th century (Achron, Bloch, Saminsky, Klein, Weinberg, Warshawski, Kaufmann…) in search of their Jewish roots …

Denis Cuniot, the inventor of the klezmer piano

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – September 26, 2017, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Denis Cuniot is one of the main initiators of the revival of French klezmer music. To date, he has released nearly twenty recordings, in solo, duo, trio or ensemble (notably with the Orient Express Moving Shnorers, which he co-founded in 1995 with Philippe Briegh) …

Hidden sides of Hélène Engel, author, composer and performer of Jewish music.

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – JULY 4, 2017, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. The singer Hélène Engel has been involved in the revival of Jewish music in France since the early 1980s. A contemporary of Jacques Grober, Rosalie Becker, Violette Szmajer, Michèle Tauber and Meredith, she sings in Yiddish, Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish, French and English, and has recorded 5 CDs to date …

Singing La Victoire

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JUNE 6, 2017, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Radio show dedicated to the music of the Great synagogue la Victoire (Paris). With Jacques Canet and Jean-Marc Thoron, president and chief conductor of la Victoire …

The Purim Shpil

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY MARCH 14, 2017, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Radio program on satyrical representations of the story of Esther (Purim Shpil) in the Ashkenazi tradition …

The Canticle of the Red Sea

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY FEBRUARY 14, 2017, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Radio program for Shabbat Bechalah’ during which we sing the Canticle of the red sea. …

Of gold and light, a musical journey through Jewish celebrations

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JANUARY 17, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Radio broadcast, in the presence of Jean Christophe Frisch, on the occasion of the release of the CD "Or et de lumière" by the ensemble XVIII-21 Le Baroque Nomade …

Hebrew Melodies: a musical journey through the Jewish soul

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY DECEMBER 20, 2016, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. Radio show for the release of the CD "Hebrew Melodies for cello and piano" …

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