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06/09/2021
Viniciu Moroianu performs George Enescu
This disc gathers works for piano and chamber music by the Romanian composer George Enescu, including two original pieces : Nocturne Ville d’Avrayen and Trio in A minor… …
05/07/2021
Zimet, Ben (1935)
Ben Zimet, a native of Canada with a Jewish-Polish origin, is a Yiddish singer and story teller who lived for a long time in France. After his youth spent in …
16/03/2021
Kantikas i Dichas Infantiles Sefardis
This remarkable boxset, comprising a CD with 12 songs, a booklet and a DVD, results from the collaboration between the musicologist Susana Weich-Shahak and Izzet Bana, director of the children’s choir of Istanbul’s community …
18/02/2021
Klezmer Attitude : the band “The Klezmorim”
Radio program hosted by Edmond Ghrenassia, broadcasted on RADIO JUDAÏCA Lyon, on MONDAY MARCH 3, 2008. Presentation of the oldest band of the klezmer revival "The Klezmorim", created in 1975 in the USA …
18/02/2021
Balagan Box : the album Shabbat Night Fever
Hosted by Laurence Haziza, broadcasted on Radio Shalom on JULY 5, 2008. Laurence Haziza presents the album the album Shabbat Night Fever, published in Germany in 2008, containing about twenty pieces by Israeli artists played on Saturday night, after Shabbat. …
18/02/2021
Esther, a Purim oratorio by the composer Lidarti (1730- ap. 1793)
Rediscovered in 1997, the score of the oratorio Ester (1774) by the composer Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti is to this day the longest and richest work of all Hebrew art music …
17/02/2021
Shabbat songs in the Ethiopian rite
A selection of Ethiopian Shabbat songs, performed by a soloist priest and a choral of priests, mainly in ge’ez language - a holy idiom, known only by insiders… …
17/02/2021
The Chasidic Shabbat songs
A selection of Shabbat songs from various Chasidic dynasties (Gur, Loubavitch, Bratslav…) and more contemporary interpretations by Shlomo Carlebach, Mordechai Ben David, Avraham Fried or Yaakov Shwekey… …
17/02/2021
The Judeo-Portuguese rites in France : Bordeaux, Bayonne, Paris
Engaged in a PhD research work, Hervé Roten studied during seven years the music of the Judeo-Portuguese communities from all sides. He collected precious information, and his thesis that was defended in 1997 gives us the core of it. This work was rewarded by the Zadoc-Kahn Association Award in 1998. …
17/02/2021
Shabbat songs in the Comtadine and Portuguese rites
A selection of Shabbat songs from communities of Portuguese rites (Amsterdam, London, Paris, Bordeaux, Bayonne, New York, Curaçao…) and from the Comtat Venaissin, performed by Abraham Lopes Cardoso, Shimon Haliwa, Eliezer Abinun, Adolphe Attia, Malkiel Benamara, Gilbert Léon and many others... …