Liturgy

Purim or Esther’s holiday in music

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8). This radio program, commented and supervised by the cantor and Rabbi Jacques Arnold, offers an unprecedented musical vision of the festival of Purim: readings of the Megillat Esther in different traditions to popular and children's songs, from Purim-Shpil to art music - such as Esther's oratorio (1774) of Lidarti …

The psalms of the Jews from Constantine

The Great Rabbi René Guedj, André Taïeb, Yohan Bismuth and Ylane Zerbib present a selection of psalms interpreted in the purest tradition of Constantine (Algeria) …

Musiques liturgiques des Juifs de Tlemcen

This 6-CD set is devoted to the specific liturgy of the thousand-year-old Jewish community of Tlemcen …

The prayer of Kol Nidre

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY OCTOBER 25, 2011, JUDAIQUE FM, 21h05. "Kol Nidre", with these words start the impressive and deep prayer starting the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur. By singing the Kol Nidre, the worshippers beg humbly God to cancel all the wishes, oaths, engagements …

Ben Adama

Recording of a concert of liturgical and traditional songs from Morocco, performed by the Rabbi Abraham Dahan, from the Beth Hillel community of Brussels, accompanied by Mustapha Largo and an Eastern instrumental ensemble …

The Ethiopian Jewish liturgical songs

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY AUGUST 30, 2011, JUDAIQUE FM, 21h05. A radio program with Olivier Tourny, ethnomusicologist at the CNRS, who has devoted nearly 20 years of his life to Ethiopian Jewish music …

Haven yakir li

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

Kol Nidré – 8 visions

Apart from the traditional Ashkenazi version of Kol Nidre played by Armand Benhamou and the Copernic Choral Ensemble, this CD offers seven other musical versions of the famous Yom Kippur prayer …

The teamim, signs to sing the Torah

by Jean-Philippe Amar, PhD in the University of Paris IV Sorbonne …

Music from Passover seder – A journey into the musical traditions of Passover

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY APRIL 12 2011, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.The cantor and rabbi Jacques Arnold explains the meanings of the various prayers that are sung during the Passover celebration …