CD EIJM

Kol Nidré – 8 visions

Apart from the traditional Ashkenazi version of Kol Nidre played by Armand Benhamou and the Copernic Choral Ensemble, this CD offers seven other musical versions of the famous Yom Kippur prayer …

Serge Kaufmann – Ima ou la mère dépossédée (IMA OR THE DISPOSSESSED MOTHER)

Is it possible to write Jewish music without using one traditional theme? This is the bet taken, and won, by Serge Kaufmann, who gives us with this CD a work colored with strong Jewish accents …

Jacques Grober – Yiddish songs from yesterday and today

Jacques Grober, one of the few French authors, composers and performers to have renewed the repertoire of Yiddish song over the last thirty years, writes songs about our lives …

Variations ladino

This CD, performed by the virtuoso guitarist Liat Cohen, takes us on a musical journey composed of traditional Ladino melodies revisited by contemporary artists and composers …

Fernand Halphen – Melodies, pieces for piano and chamber music

Pupil of Gabriel Fauré and Jules Massenet, laureate of the Second Grand Prize of Rome in 1896, Fernand Halphen (1872-1917) is the author of numerous melodies, pieces for piano and chamber music. This album received the Orphée d'or 2007 from the Académie du Disque Lyrique. …

Alberto Hemsi – Coplas sefardies

The Coplas Serfardies are a collection of Judeo-Spanish songs for voice and piano, written by Alberto Hemsi and based on 230 poems and melodies collected in the Sephardi communities of the ancient Ottoman Empire between 1923 and 1937 …

Shalom Berlinski – The voice of fervor

A rare and beautiful anthology of the French Ashkenazi liturgy sung by Shalom Berlinski, cantor at the Synagogue de la Victoire (Paris) from 1948 to 1979, with Jean Bonfils (organ/piano), the Colonne Orchestra and a mixed choir of 32 singers …

Judeo-French music from the 18th and 19th century

This CD, performed by the cantor Adolphe Attia, accompanied by Mag Tayar (harpsichord, piano) and a choir directed by Michel Podolak, offers us an overview of the liturgical traditions of the Comtadins, the Portuguese and the Ashkenazim in France in the 18th and 19th centuries …

Music from the synagogue of Bordeaux – Portuguese Rite

Recording of the concert of October 14, 2002 at the Great Synagogue of Bordeaux, to celebrate the 120th anniversary of its construction, with the main tunes of the Portuguese liturgy, performed by Adolphe Attia, Malkiel Benamara, Léon Cohen and Didier Kassabi, accompanied by Mag Tayar, organist of the Great Synagogue of Marseille …

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