Liturgy

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 …

Jacques Offenbach and friends – From the Synagogue to the Opera

This CD allows us to discover the original Hebrew works of Isaac and Jacques Offenbach, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jules Erlanger, Emile Jonas and Fromental Halévy …

La Chorale le Chant Sacré

This 2nd CD from the choir Le Chant Sacré (The Sacred Song) was recorded for a concert that took place in the Synagogue of Obernai, in November 2012. One can hear on it tunes for Shabbat, the High Holidays (Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur) and the Three Pilgrimage Festivals, among which Shavuot… …

The Liturgy of Beta Israel – Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer

A 3 CD boxset to discover the religious music of Ethiopian Jews. The booklet, written by Simha Arom, Frank Alvarez-Pereyre, Shoshana Ben-Dor and Olivier Tourny, offer us historical, religious and musicological analysis of the music of the Beta Israel …

The music of the Ethiopian Jews, the Beta Israel

A historic, liturgic and musicologic analysis of the music of the Beta Israel, inspired from the works by Simha Arom, Frank Alvarez-Pereyre, Shoshana Ben-Dor and Olivier Tourny …

Cantor Haim Ischakis

Released in 2018 by the Europäische Zentrum für Jüdische Musik (EZJM) in Hanover, this 4 CD boxset offers a wide musical panorama of the liturgical tradition of Romaniote Jews from Greece …