Ashkenazi Rite

Synagogal music in Paris at the time of the first consistorial temple (1822-1874)

In his thesis, now available in digital version, Gérard Ganvert gives us an indepth study of synagogal music in Paris from 1822 to 1874 …

Shabbat songs in the Eastern Ashkenazi rite

A selection of Shabbat songs from Eastern Europe including historical recordings by Yossele Rosenblatt, Gershon Sirota, Leibele Waldmann, Pierre Pinchick, Zawel Kwartin, Moshe Koussevitzky, Richard Tucker or Abraham Adler... …

Shabbat songs in the Western Ashkenazic rite

A selection of Shabbat songs from Western Europe, traditional or not, performed by Adolphe Attia, Shalom Berlinski, Joseph Borin, Michel Heymann and many others... …

The selichot in the Eastern Ashkenazi rite

A selection of selichot performed by Benzion Miller, Kwartin Zawel, Moshe Stern, Moshe Koussevitzky, Binyamin Unger and Avi Toledano… …

The selichot in the Western Ashkenazi rite

A selection of selichot performed by Adolphe Attia, Joseph Borin, Michel Heymann, Emile Kaçmann, Samuel Lison and Max Warchawski... …

The Hebrew works of Fromental Halévy and Giacomo Meyerbeer

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – OCTOBER 22, 2019, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H00 Broadcast dedicated to the Hebrew works of two of the best opera composers of the 19th century : Fromental Halévy and Giacomo Meyerbeer. With the participation of Hector Sabo, musicologist, choirmaster of the Polyphonies hébraïques and of the vocal ensemble La Truite Lyrique …

La Chorale le Chant Sacré

This 2nd CD from the choir Le Chant Sacré (The Sacred Song) was recorded for a concert that took place in the Synagogue of Obernai, in November 2012. One can hear on it tunes for Shabbat, the High Holidays (Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur) and the Three Pilgrimage Festivals, among which Shavuot… …

Samuel Naumbourg (1817-1880)

A selection of liturgical compositions by Samuel Naumbourg, one of the main reformers of the French Consistorial cult in the second half of the 19th century Born on March 15, …

Naumbourg, Samuel (1817-1880)

Born on March 15, 1817 in Dennenlohe, in Bavaria, Samuel Naumbourg came from a long lineage of famous cantors. As he entered the synagogue at a very young age, he …