14/04/2011
Jewish Identities
The writor, Klára Móricz, studies the concepts of the Jewish identity, rebuilding our comprehension of « Jewish music », as a growth of utopian ideologies, nationalism, racism …
14/04/2011
Klezmer Studies
Here is a new method in the teaching of klezmer clarinet. Or how to face the first technical difficulties with simple and melodic pieces, composed in the spirit of klezmer music? …
26/03/2010
Passport to Jewish Music
The 27 chapters of this book by the musicologist Irene Heskes describe the various historic periods of Jewish music, since the Biblical times until modern period …
26/03/2010
Music in ancient Israel
Well documented, this book by Alfred Sendrey presents the music at the Biblical time and in the beginning of the Talmudic period …
26/03/2010
Yiddish blues (2) – Talila
On subtle arrangements by Teddy Lasry, Talila sings beautiful songs in Yiddish …
26/03/2010
Plus bleu que bleu
16 songs inspired by ladino, Yiddish, Israeli, Biblical and classical music, performed by Sylvie Sivann, an eclectic artist equally at ease in opera, French songs and traditional music …
26/03/2010
Musiques juives et hébraïques Sacrées et Profanes au Moyen-Age, XIXe et XXe Siècles
The Quatuor vocal Hébraïca (Mikaël Weill, Damien Schubert, Jean Moissonnier and Hector Sabo) performs 24 pieces, including : Yerushalayim shel zahav, Hava naguila, Kol nidrei, Avinu malkeinu, Scalerica de oro, Avraham avinu …
26/03/2010
Klezmer fun Brunen Aroys !
Glik literaly means “happyness, good fortune”, in Yiddish. It is under this name (or the less known one, the Dovid’s Klezmer Orkester) that the five musicians of this band share, with the violin, the clarinet, the doublebass, the trombone, the buzuki and the tsimbl, « klezmer » music …
26/03/2010
YOM – New King of Klezmer Clarinet
Young virtuoso of the klezmer clarinet, Yom explores the lands of traditional music, contemporary jazz and electronic music. This CD features 14 tracks, among which a majority coming from the Jewish clarinet player from Galicia Naftule Brandwein (1889-1963) …
26/03/2010
Rénanim – Polyphonies hébraïques a capella
Live concert recorded in 2006 in Nice, under the direction of Avner Soudry. Featuring : Yiddish, Israeli and liturgical songs …
