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Sirba Octet – A Yiddishe Mame

A Yiddishe Mame is built on classic melodies with vibrant phrasing which dance and sing and reinvent themselves through the ages and across borders by way of journeys and stories retold. …

Voice of the Turtle – Circle of Fire

Created in 1978, the American band Voice of the Turtle gathers four musicians (Derek Burrows, Lisle Kulbach, Jay Rosenberg and Judith Wachs) who wish to make hear again the musical repertoire of the Sefardi communities …

Moishe Oysher – Passover Seder, Kol Nidrei & Chanukah Party

This 2 CD box set includes 29 tracks from Passover seder, Kol Nidre (Yom Kippur) and Hanukka’s services, performped by the cantor and actor of Yiddish theatre Moishe Oysher (1906-1958) …

Les voix de l’oubli : Erwin Schulhoff – Léo Smit

Performed by the flutist Virginie Reibel-Escoffier, this disc speaks of the times of the musical purge of Nazi Germany (1933-1945), in particular with the works of Erwin Schulhof (1894 - 1942) and Leo Smit (1900- 1943) …

Zabulon Sebban – Recueil de chants hébraïques

Zabulon Sebban (1911-1983) followed rabbinic studies with the great Rabbi Isaac Hanoune, before serving as a cantor in the Great Temple of Algiers. This CD, produced by his children, features 26 songs of prayer : from Biblical cantilation to famous melodies from the Algiers’ liturgy …

Aleksander Tansman

In 1950, Alexandre Tansman finished the composition of his oratorio Isaïe the Prophet, one of his favorite works, which he dedicated to the six million Jews who were killed during the Second World War …

Darius Milhaud – Ani maamin – un chant perdu et retrouvé

Ani maamin is the latest work by Darius Milhaud (1892-1974). This cantata, which was put on a text by Elie Wiesel, deported in Auschwitz at the age of 15, describes the horror of the extermination camps and the martyr of the Jews …

Kossi Revaya

Performed by Adolphe Attia, Malkiel Benamara (zl),Albert Bouadana and Philippe Darmon, this CD is the occasion to hear the simple and lively melodies that punctuate weekly rest of the Shabbat …

¡ Ay Petenera !

A gypsy with a deadly charm, La Petenera was a woman from Paterna de Rivera near Cadix in Andalusia, in the 18th century. Her name was given to a song and a dance of flamenco …

Balabosta

In Yiddish, the Balabosta is the housekeeper, the women who cooks the gefilte fish for the family, who knits the thread of tradition and heritage. The Balabosta trio tells the story of the klezmer music heritage …

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