The Collections

Viniciu Moroianu performs George Enescu

This disc gathers works for piano and chamber music by the Romanian composer George Enescu, including two original pieces : Nocturne Ville d’Avrayen and Trio in A minor… …

Kantikas i Dichas Infantiles Sefardis

This remarkable boxset, comprising a CD with 12 songs, a booklet and a DVD, results from the collaboration between the musicologist Susana Weich-Shahak and Izzet Bana, director of the children’s choir of Istanbul’s community …

Nora Bisele

Released in 2021, this first album from the duet of singers and musicians Nora Bisele gather 12 songs mixing French and Yiddish languages. Stories of tenderness, nostalgia and rebellion... Life stories …

Fromental Halévy (1799 – 1862) – Sa vie, sa musique

The result of in-depth research, this book by Karl Leich-Galland presents the life and work of Fromental Halévy, an Israelite composer considered in his time as one of the masters of the French school of music …

Lullabies from all over the world

This 33 RPM disc, dedicated to children, has a beautiful cover in relief inspired by a painting from Henri Galeron …

Chamber Works by Walter Kaufmann

Fourth opus from the serie Music in Exile, the CD Chamber Works by Walter Kaufmann, released by Chandos on August 28, 2020 makes us discover the unfairly forgotten work of a Jewish Czech composer who fled Nazism in 1934 …

Hebrew Voices: A journey into Western Jewish music, with analysis and musical examples (in French)

This book takes us on a chronological circuit through 30 works of Jewish music, from the Middle Ages up to today, from Obadiah the Proselyte to Arnold Schoenberg or Michaël Levinas …

Alberto Hemsi : Coplas Sefardies

Soprano Tehila Nini Goldstein and pianist Jascha Nemtsov perform the complete 60 Coplas Sefardies (Judeo-Spanish Songs) by Alberto Hemsi in this 3-CD set released by Hänsser Classic on September 30, 2020 …

En allant à Uskudar

The first album of Les Oreilles d’Aman, En allant à Uskudar (Going to Uskudar) explores the interbreedings of Jewish music, Turkish and Balkan melodies, with Klezmer and Gypsy tunes, passing by jazz, Occitan or classical music …

Josef Josef

The first album of the band Josef Josef, released by the Buda Musique label, is composed of Yiddish, Gypsy, and Russian songs …

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The contribution of Jewish composers to Hollywood cinema

In the 1930s, the rise of totalitarian regimes in Europe forced many Jewish musicians to emigrate to the United States.…

Exile to Hollywood

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Judeo-Spanish Song: Between Oral Tradition and Artistic Composition

Judeo-Spanish music, passed down orally, evolved from the 1920s onward under the influence of the folklore movement and composers such…
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