Liturgy
03/12/2019
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 …
28/11/2019
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. …
15/10/2019
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 …
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, …