Classical music

Fernand Halphen, a Jewish composer in the Great War

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY MARCH 11, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.Laure Schnapper, a musicologist and the president of the EIJM will tell us about the history and the music of this Jewish composer, killed on duty for France …

The routes of klezmer : Sirba Octet or World Classical

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - DECEMBER 17, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. By abolishing the borders between classical music, klezmer music and Yiddish song, Richard Schmoucler, founder of the Sirba Octet, reinvents an original and unprecedented musical genre, that of "World Classical" …

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 …

Charles-Valentin Alkan, from Jewish faith to modernity

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2013, Judaïques FM (94.8), 21h05. Musicologist Anny Kessous Dreyfuss introduces us to Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888), a composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher whose talent was often compared to that of Chopin or Liszt …

Norbert Glanzberg – From popular songs to Jewish music

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY JUNE 5, 2012 - JUDAIQUES FM, 21h05. Radio programme dedicated to the composer, melodist and virtuoso pianist Norbert Glanzberg, who became famous for his film scores and popular songs. With the participation of Serge Glanzberg, son of the composer …

The role of Jewish musicians in 19th century Paris : the case of Henri Herz (Vienna 1803- Paris 1888)

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY JULY 5, 2011, JUDAIQUE FM, 21h05. With this work on Henri Herz, the musicologist Laure Schnapper talks in particular about the role of the Jewish composers – such as Hertz, Alkan, Fromental Halévy, Meyerbeer, Offenbach…in the 19th century's French music …

Symphonie Juive

This work by Lionel Stoléru and Francine Aubin, performed by the l'Orchestre romantique européen, under the direction of the composer, features in a classical form the great themes of French Ashkenazi, Sefardi and Comtadine synagogal religious music …

A musical journey between Two Worlds

A surprising wedding between ancient music texts from the Psalms. The tenor singer Nissim Baroukh takes un into an imaginary journey towards this magical garden where baroque music meets the Biblical speech …

Haven yakir li

Featuring: Hazanut, contemporary Israeli music and Psalms for vocals and piano …

Brundibar

Children opera by Hans Krasà, in Czech, created in Prague under the nazi occupation, and performed again in sadly known Terezin camp …