Kol Nidre

Lectures and concert in Copernic synagogue

Watch the lectures by Delphine Horvilleur and Hervé Roten about the meaning of the Kol Nidre prayer and its music, as well as an excerpt of the concert, performed on November 18, 2009 in the Synagogue of ULIF-Copernic

Watch the lectures by Delphine Horvilleur and Hervé Roten about the meaning of the Kol Nidre prayer and its music, as well as an excerpt of the concert, in which Armand Benhamou, cantor of the ULIF-Copernic, accompanied by the Ensemble choral Copernic and the organ player Nicole Wiener, performed the traditional melody of the Kol Nidre in Samuel David’s version.

With:

Bruno Fraitag : Vice-president of Copernic synagogue
Delphine Horvilleur : Rabbi  of the Mouvement juif libéral de France (MJLF)
Hervé Roten : Musicologist and director of the European Institute of Jewish Music

Purchase the CD Kol Nidre eight visions online on the EIJM’s shop

00 : 00 Introduction with the music of the Kol Nidrei by Max Bruch taken from the CD Hebrew Melodies
00 : 22 Presentation of the colloquium by Bruno Fraitag (ULIF)
02 : 15 Delphine Horvilleur : “Origins and stories on the text and the prayer of the Kol Nidre”
10 : 50 Hervé Roten : “The musical aspects of the Kol Nidre inside the Ashkenazi and Sefardi cultures”
26 : 26 Traditional Kol Nidre by Samuel David, performed by Armand Benhamou, the Ensemble choral ULIF and Nicole Wiener on the organ
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