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
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Fromental Halévy (1799 – 1862) – Sa vie, sa musique
Since the early 1980s, the musicologist Karl Leich-Galland has been working on the rediscovery of the French Romantic repertoire of the 19th century through the publication of scores, booklets, out-of-print
Shabbat songs
The Shabbat, the day of rest, is a very important event of Jewish life. And the songs that rhythm this particular day hold a major place, at the synagogue as
Zaraï, Rika (1938 – 2020)
Rika Zaraï, born under the name Rivka Gozman, was born on February 19,1938, in Jerusalem, in Palestine. Her father was a Russian from Odessa and her mother was a Pole
Chamber Works by Walter Kaufmann
Fourth opus from the serie Music in Exile, the CD Chamber Works by Walter Kaufmann, released by Chandos on August 28, 2020 makes us discover the unfairly forgotten work of
Hebrew Voices: A journey into Western Jewish music, with analysis and musical examples (in French)
Strong from his experience as a choirmaster in the Great Synagogue of Strasbourg and in the Chœur juif de France, creator of the Polyphonies hébraïques de Strasbourg and of the
Alberto Hemsi : Coplas Sefardies
The catalogue of the recorded works of Alberto Hemsi (1898-1975) gets bigger with the release of a new 3 CD box set published by Hänsser Classic, on September 30, 2020.
En allant à Uskudar
Created in 2014 by the singer and clarinet player Léa Platini, the band Les Oreilles d’Aman gathers six musicians with multiple music influences. Their common work brings together the elegance
Jewish music in France
A history of over 20 centuriesThe origins of the Jewish community of France is quite old. It is in the year 6 A.D. that Archelaus, Ethnarch of Judea, banned by
LE CANDÉLABRE À SEPT BRANCHES (THE SEVEN-BRANCH CANDELABRA) (1951) BY DARIUS MILHAUD
By Hervé Roten