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13/01/2025
Shirat ha-Baqqashot according to the Moroccan rite
Ariel Danan, a skilled connoisseur of baqqashot, traces the history of this liturgical poetry and provides musical examples in the Moroccan tradition …
08/01/2025
Exils
In this intimate album, violinist Elsa Moatti plunges us into her roots, her "inner geography", to deliver an album imbued with resilience, vibrancy and sensitivity …
08/01/2025
Chamber Works by Robert Müller-Hartmann & Frederick Block
The seventh and eighth CDs in the Music in Exile series, Chamber Music by Robert Müller-Hartmann and Chamber Music by Frederick Block, released by Chandos in 2023 and 2024 respectively, introduce us to the unjustly forgotten works of these two Jewish composers, German and Austrian, who emigrated to England and the USA in the 1930s to escape Nazism …
07/01/2025
Encyclopaedia of British Jewish Cantors, Chazanim, Ministers and Synagogue Musicians: Their History and Culture
Remarkably well-documented, this thousand-page encyclopedia presents the history of the British synagogal music …
09/12/2024
Jewish music and cuisine
A musical and gastronomic conference by Hervé Roten, director of the European Institute of Jewish Music …
05/12/2024
Les enfants de l’espérance, a score by Graciane Finzi
This original score was composed for the YWAM-Copernic Talmud Torah Children's Choir, directed by conductor Mélanie Levy-Thiébaut. Graciane Finzi composed the music and Rabbi Philippe Haddad the lyrics …
05/12/2024
Cantata Shma Kolenu by Itaï Daniel, finally available on score!
The European Institute of Jewish Music publishes the Cantata Shma Kolenu, a major work by ltaï Daniel, for 4-part choir, solo baritone, clarinet in A and string trio …
04/12/2024
Release of six new scores by Serge Kaufmann
The European Institute of Jewish Music publishes six new compositions by Serge Kaufmann, including Kaddish for solo cello and Parade Klezmer for wind orchestra, percussion and double bass …
19/11/2024
The wedding
The Jewish wedding is celebrated according to numerous customs and laws designed to bring out its full spiritual and material significance. In this article, we listen to the recitation of the 7 blessings in the Ashkenazi rite, taken from an historic recording made in 1933 …
18/11/2024
Raphael Elfassy collection
In 2022 and then 2024, Christine Dangremont and Josiane Sberro donated to the IEMJ the archive of Raphael Elfassy (1939-2019), synagogue choirmaster, founder of the Ensemble de Musique Hébraïque de Paris, teacher and publisher of several discs of Jewish music …