Liturgy

The interpretation of rites

Broadcasted on French radio France Culture, on October 5 & 12, 2014, Marc-Alain Ouaknin invites in his program "Talmudiques" Hervé Roten who will analyse the relations between music and liturgy through various rites, and more generally the place of music in Judaism... …

Chasidism and music

Chasidism, the mystic Jewish movement born in Eastern Europe in the middle of the 18th century, enabled the emergence of a lot of music aimed to transcend the impurities of this world …

Three Passover songs: Adir hu, Echad mi yodea and Chad gadya

Learn everything about the three songs that end the Passover seder : Adir hu, Echad mi yodea and Chad gadya

Echad mi yodea, a Passover song

Echad mi yodea, the Passover song of numbers, sung in all (or almost !) Jewish traditions …

Chad gadya, a Passover song

Chad gadya (the goat), the famous Passover song sung in all (or almost !) Jewish traditions …

Listening to the sacred

Audio recording of the conference "Listening to the sacred", organisde by the Villa Gillet and the Institution des Chartreux in Lyon, on January 30, 2020, with the participation of Hervé Roten, Jean During, Jean-Clément Jollet and François-Xavier Szymczak (moderator) …

Sofia Falkovitch

This 2nd musical album from mezzo-soprano Cantor Sofia Falkovitch features a collection of songs, prayers and psalms by the leading synagogue composers of pre war Europe and the United States …

Cycle of lectures : Music and religion

Monday 3rd of December 2019, 18h30-20h : as part of the cycle of lectures of the IESR dedicated to religious music, Hervé Roten will present a wide panorama of Jewish liturgical musical practices, since the biblica era until today, with many audiovisual examples. …

The Hebrew works of Fromental Halévy and Giacomo Meyerbeer

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – OCTOBER 22, 2019, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H00 Broadcast dedicated to the Hebrew works of two of the best opera composers of the 19th century : Fromental Halévy and Giacomo Meyerbeer. With the participation of Hector Sabo, musicologist, choirmaster of the Polyphonies hébraïques and of the vocal ensemble La Truite Lyrique …