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Baroque Jewish Music – Venice, Mantua, Amsterdam (1623 – 1774)

This CD, edited in homage to Israel Adler, includes 13 compositions by Salamone Rossi, Abraham Caceres and Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti, that witness the beauty of Jewish musical practice in Italy and Amsterdam, from the Baroque period to the beginning of the galant style …

The renew of Judeo-Spanish music

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2011, JUDAIQUE FM, 21h05. Since several years, Judeo-Spanish music know a real renewal, with the emergence of a new generation of artists, determined to shake the repertoire of traditional songs. With Emmanuelle Rouvray, Thomas Baudrillier and Jessica Roda …

Le chant liturgique juif éthiopien

This book by Olivier Tourny, ethnomusicologist in the CNRS, director of the French Research Center in Jerusalem, describes in a pedagogical way the fascinating musical tradition of Ethiopian Jews …

Axerico en Selanik

The French duet Mazal, with Emmanuelle Rouvray (vocals, percussions) and Thomas Baudriller (programming, sampler, bass, doublebass, mandoline), perform 10 traditional Sefardi songs in a musical electro-dance environment …

Ben Adama

Recording of a concert of liturgical and traditional songs from Morocco, performed by the Rabbi Abraham Dahan, from the Beth Hillel community of Brussels, accompanied by Mustapha Largo and an Eastern instrumental ensemble …

The Ethiopian Jewish liturgical songs

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY AUGUST 30, 2011, JUDAIQUE FM, 21h05. A radio program with Olivier Tourny, ethnomusicologist at the CNRS, who has devoted nearly 20 years of his life to Ethiopian Jewish music …

Classic Yiddish Klezmer – 1905-1916

The 26 tunes of this compilation restore a part of the klezmer music repertoire edited in the USA in the beginning of the 20th century …

The role of Jewish musicians in 19th century Paris : the case of Henri Herz (Vienna 1803- Paris 1888)

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY JULY 5, 2011, JUDAIQUE FM, 21h05. With this work on Henri Herz, the musicologist Laure Schnapper talks in particular about the role of the Jewish composers – such as Hertz, Alkan, Fromental Halévy, Meyerbeer, Offenbach…in the 19th century's French music …

The CFMJ at the Festival of Jewish Culture in Paris

Conferences, round table and concerts : find all the events co-organized by the CFMJ at the Festival of Jewish Culture in Paris, on June 29 and 30 2011. Wednesday June …

The interculturality in Jewish music

A filmed lecture by Hervé Roten, ethnomusicologist, director of the EIJM (called at the time French Center of Jewish Music) …