Liturgy
28/09/2026
HEBREW MELODIES FOR CELLO AND PIANO, VOLUME 3
28 pieces beautifully performed by Sarah Iancu (cello) and David Bismuth (piano), inspired by liturgical music, Judeo-Spanish songs, and stage music, particularly from Yiddish theater …
14/04/2026
Concerts of the European Festival of Jewish Choirs, Paris 2025
Watch the concerts from the European Festival of Jewish Choirs, which took place in Paris from July 2 to 7, 2025, under the auspices of the EUAJC …
19/05/2025
The great tunes of the Ashkenazi liturgical year
Watch the concert held on October 21, 2024 at the rue Copernic synagogue, at 8pm, as part of the closing session of the Symposium Ashkenazi music in France, at concerts or in synagogue - State of the art, origins, influences, traditions and (re)creations …
18/05/2025
Ashkenazi liturgical music in France
Lectures filmed on October 21, 2024 at the Auditorium of the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO - Paris), as part of the Symposium Ashkenazi music in France, at concerts or in synagogue - State of the art, origins, influences, traditions and (re)creations …
16/01/2025
Baqqachot
On Saturday mornings in winter, before sunrise, Jews from the Maghreb and the Middle East gather at the synagogue to sing baqqachot, a set of liturgical, sometimes mystical poems …
15/01/2025
Discovering baqqachot
This playlist features recordings of Baqqachot songs from the Yerushalmi and Moroccan traditions …
13/01/2025
Shirat ha-Baqqashot according to the Moroccan rite
Ariel Danan, a skilled connoisseur of baqqashot, traces the history of this liturgical poetry and provides musical examples in the Moroccan tradition …
09/11/2022
Synagogal music in Paris at the time of the first consistorial temple (1822-1874)
In his thesis, now available in digital version, Gérard Ganvert gives us an indepth study of synagogal music in Paris from 1822 to 1874 …
23/12/2021
Hebrew melodies for cello and piano, 2nd volume
This 2nd CD of Hebrew Melodies, mainly dedicated to the composers of the St. Petersburg Jewish school such as Joel Engel, Alexander Krein, Lazare Saminsky, Joachim Stutschewsky, Jacob Weinberg or Leo Zeitlin, also introduces us to lesser known works by Ernest Bloch, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Vladimir Dyck …
17/02/2021
Shabbat songs in the Ethiopian rite
A selection of Ethiopian Shabbat songs, performed by a soloist priest and a choral of priests, mainly in ge’ez language - a holy idiom, known only by insiders… …