28/12/2015
The disc collection from the French radio RCJ
Deposited in 2014 at the European Institute of Jewish Music, the disc collection of the French Jewish radio RCJ gathers over a thousand documents, mainly 33 RPM discs, from Israeli variety to great works of cantorial art …
22/12/2015
Nor A Moll
With Caroline Kulcsar (vocals), Lionel Jacubowiez (clarinets), Marc Hanna (guitar) and Bess Fang (cello), Calima Jazz offers us its new CD Nor a moll which mixes Yiddish melodies and jazz …
21/12/2015
Thadé Geisler Wyganowski: Pieces for Violin, Two Violins, Violin and Piano
Music pieces for violin, two violins and piano from the Jewish composer and violinist of polish origin Thadé Geisler Wyganowski (1913-1989) …
21/12/2015
Thadé, une longue histoire d’amour…
Biography of Thadé, Jewish violonist native of Poland …
21/12/2015
Klezmer’s Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music Revival in Poland and Germany
Klezmer in Europe has been a controversial topic ever since this traditional Jewish wedding music made it to the concert halls and discos of Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest and Prague. Played mostly by non-Jews and for non-Jews, it was hailed as "fakelore," "Jewish Disneyland" and even "cultural necrophilia." …
14/12/2015
Ignaz Moscheles and the Changing World of Musical Europe
The first full-length study devoted to Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870), pianist, conductor and composer …
14/12/2015
La fanfare de Bangui
It starts like an adventure's novel : a phone call from the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs offers, in 1963, to a horn player from the radio's symphonic orchestra, to leave for the Central African republic, as part of a cooperation program : the president of Central Africa wants a brass band …
09/12/2015
The Maurice Arrouasse Collection
The archives deposited by Maurice Arrouasse, big collector of Oriental music, gather more than 300 audio documents on various medias, from 78 RPM discs to Cd's …
30/11/2015
The Dave Cash Collection
Representing approximately 200 documents, the Dave Cash (Louis/Ludwig Slomniker) Collection takes us into the musical atmosphere of the post-war Yiddish cabarets …
26/11/2015
Wagner antisemite
Can the greatness of one of the most remarkable musicians of the Western world excuse some positions among the worse that can be ? And moreover : can it justify that we ignore them ? …
