14/12/2013
Sirba Octet – Du Shtetl à New-York
A thrilling explosion of music blending folk and musical theatre. A journey back to the roots of American music by way of brilliant musicians, strong emotions and dancing shoes. …
14/12/2013
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. …
17/11/2013
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 …
16/11/2013
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) …
17/10/2013
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) …
17/10/2013
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 …
08/10/2013
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 …
29/09/2013
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 …
29/09/2013
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 …
13/09/2013
¡ 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 …
