The Collections

Le Passant du pont de l’Europe : Charles-Valentin Alkan, entre tradition et modernité

A book written by Anny Kessous Dreyfuss who makes us discover Charles Valentin Alkan (1813-1888), composer, virtuoso, pedagogue, whose several works are related to Jewish tradition …

Klezmanouche

Klezmanouche - with the singer Astrid Ruff - offers a meeting between « klezmer » music (Jewish music from the Yiddishland) and Gypsy jazz …

The Alexandre Tansman Collection

In 2013, the daughters of the composer Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), Mireille and Marianne Tansman, did us the honour to give to the European Institute of Jewish Music several discs and archive documents from their father, as well as copies of manuscripts, for some of them yet unpublished …

KANTIGA ALTELI – JUDEO SPANISH SONGS

The four musicians forming the band Kantiga Alteli perform Judeo Spanish melodies, mixing ancient and new, written and spoken, East and West …

Yubka

In this CD called Yubka, beautifully perfomed by the clarinetist Samuel Berthod, with Gabriel Androne on the accordion and Frédérik Fraysse on the double bass, the composer Jean-Pierre Stora offers …

JEWISH SINGERS FROM MOROCCO

This CD features remasterized recordings from the most famous Jewish singers from Morocco, from 1934 to 1985, from Zohra al Fàsiyya to Esther Elfasi, Raymonde, Cheikh Mwijo, Jo Amar, Boutboul, Samy Elmaghribi, Pinhass Cohen …

JEWISH SINGERS FROM TUNISIA

The producer Michel Lévy republishes the treasures from catalogue of Oriental music Dounia, held at the origin by the musician El Kahlaoui Tounsi. This CD dedicated to the Jewish singers from Tunisia offers the possibility to hear songs by Raoul Journo, Cheïkh El Afrite, Louisa Tounsia, Hbiba Msika and many others …

Haggada de Pâques

This touching CD features a reissue of the recording of the Pesach Haggada, in the Tunisian rite, performed by Nathan Cohen, Baby Bismuth, Haim Slama and Alain Setbon …

Eva Golgevit chante toujours

Eva always sang. Even in Auschwitz concentration camps, singing was a mean of fight and hope. This book and CD is her heritage. It features 41 songs and 6 poems with lyrics in Yiddish, their transliteration and French translation …

Alexandre Tansman – Regards en arrière

The work and personality of Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986) deserve to be better known, as it was so rich of experiences, and filled with touching people, famous or not. In Regards en arrière, a text written between 1954 and 1958, the composer comes back on his years of training in Poland, and career in France and USA …

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