Liturgy
02/10/2019
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 …
05/06/2019
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 …
26/05/2019
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 …
23/05/2019
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 …
21/05/2019
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 …
26/03/2019
Tribute concert to Cantor Moshe Koussevitzki
Concert filmed for the 25th anniversary of the death of Cantor Moshe Koussevitzki …
31/01/2019
Samuel Naumbourg (1817-1880)
A selection of liturgical compositions by Samuel Naumbourg, one of the main reformers of the French Consistorial cult in the second half of the 19th century Born on March 15, …
31/01/2019
Naumbourg, Samuel (1817-1880)
Born on March 15, 1817 in Dennenlohe, in Bavaria, Samuel Naumbourg came from a long lineage of famous cantors. As he entered the synagogue at a very young age, he …
16/01/2019
Liturgical chants by Salomon Sulzer (1804-1890)
The best liturgical tunes by Salomon Sulzer, precursor of the new synagogal music in Europe in the beginning of the 19th century Considered the father of the new synagogal music …
11/01/2019
The mystical singing in Chasidic tradition – Marc-Alain Ouaknin
As part of the day of sudy Vox Aurea-Via Sacra 2014, dedicated to sacred Jewish music, Marc-Alain Ouaknin. Rabbi, philosopher and teacher in the faculty shares a reflexion about the …