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17/10/2013
Epstein Brothers
The Epstein Brothers Orchestra (also known as the Epstein Brothers) was a Jewish musical quartet from the United States which played mostly klezmer music.The four New York brothers were: Max …
17/10/2013
Les voix de l’oubli : Erwin Schulhoff – Léo Smit
Performed by the flutist Virginie Reibel-Escoffier, this disc speaks of the times of the musical purge of Nazi Germany (1933-1945), in particular with the works of Erwin Schulhof (1894 - 1942) and Leo Smit (1900- 1943) …
17/10/2013
Zabulon Sebban – Recueil de chants hébraïques
Zabulon Sebban (1911-1983) followed rabbinic studies with the great Rabbi Isaac Hanoune, before serving as a cantor in the Great Temple of Algiers. This CD, produced by his children, features 26 songs of prayer : from Biblical cantilation to famous melodies from the Algiers’ liturgy …
17/10/2013
Jewish music and mystic
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY OCTOBER 22, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. This show aims to study the relation between Jewish music and mystics, with Franklin Rausky, conference master at the Strasbourg's University and director of studies at the Elie Wiesel Institute in Paris …
08/10/2013
Aleksander Tansman
In 1950, Alexandre Tansman finished the composition of his oratorio Isaïe the Prophet, one of his favorite works, which he dedicated to the six million Jews who were killed during the Second World War …
29/09/2013
Darius Milhaud – Ani maamin – un chant perdu et retrouvé
Ani maamin is the latest work by Darius Milhaud (1892-1974). This cantata, which was put on a text by Elie Wiesel, deported in Auschwitz at the age of 15, describes the horror of the extermination camps and the martyr of the Jews …
29/09/2013
Kossi Revaya
Performed by Adolphe Attia, Malkiel Benamara (zl),Albert Bouadana and Philippe Darmon, this CD is the occasion to hear the simple and lively melodies that punctuate weekly rest of the Shabbat …
18/09/2013
Charles-Valentin Alkan, from Jewish faith to modernity
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2013, Judaïques FM (94.8), 21h05. Musicologist Anny Kessous Dreyfuss introduces us to Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888), a composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher whose talent was often compared to that of Chopin or Liszt …
18/09/2013
Mystical chanting in the Jewish tradition
Lecture on mystical chanting in the Jewish tradition, by Hervé Roten, as part of Vox Aurea-Via Sacra 2013, focusing this year on the study of ecstatic practices supported by chant as a medium specific to mysticism …
13/09/2013
¡ Ay Petenera !
A gypsy with a deadly charm, La Petenera was a woman from Paterna de Rivera near Cadix in Andalusia, in the 18th century. Her name was given to a song and a dance of flamenco …