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13/12/2013
The routes of klezmer : Sirba Octet or World Classical
MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - DECEMBER 17, 2013, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. By abolishing the borders between classical music, klezmer music and Yiddish song, Richard Schmoucler, founder of the Sirba Octet, reinvents an original and unprecedented musical genre, that of "World Classical" …
18/11/2013
Jonas, Émile (1827-1905)
Emile Jonas was born to a Jewish family in Paris on March 5, 1827. His father was Simon Jonas and his mother was Jeanette Pohl. In 1841, Emile Jonas, at …
17/11/2013
Voice of the Turtle – Circle of Fire
Created in 1978, the American band Voice of the Turtle gathers four musicians (Derek Burrows, Lisle Kulbach, Jay Rosenberg and Judith Wachs) who wish to make hear again the musical repertoire of the Sefardi communities …
16/11/2013
Moishe Oysher – Passover Seder, Kol Nidrei & Chanukah Party
This 2 CD box set includes 29 tracks from Passover seder, Kol Nidre (Yom Kippur) and Hanukka’s services, performped by the cantor and actor of Yiddish theatre Moishe Oysher (1906-1958) …
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 …