04/10/2021
Dorothée – A bikhele Lider
A tribute to Dorothée Vienney, a Yiddish teacher who passed away on February 23, 2021 at the age of 86, this bikhele lider (small singing book) by Isabelle Georges is a jewel by its simplicity, intimacy and beauty …
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… …
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 …
09/02/2021
Nora Bisele
Released in 2021, this first album from the duet of singers and musicians Nora Bisele gather 12 songs mixing French and Yiddish languages. Stories of tenderness, nostalgia and rebellion... Life stories …
03/02/2021
Fromental Halévy (1799 – 1862) – Sa vie, sa musique
The result of in-depth research, this book by Karl Leich-Galland presents the life and work of Fromental Halévy, an Israelite composer considered in his time as one of the masters of the French school of music …
24/11/2020
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 a Jewish Czech composer who fled Nazism in 1934 …
17/11/2020
Hebrew Voices: A journey into Western Jewish music, with analysis and musical examples (in French)
This book takes us on a chronological circuit through 30 works of Jewish music, from the Middle Ages up to today, from Obadiah the Proselyte to Arnold Schoenberg or Michaël Levinas …
27/10/2020
Alberto Hemsi : Coplas Sefardies
Soprano Tehila Nini Goldstein and pianist Jascha Nemtsov perform the complete 60 Coplas Sefardies (Judeo-Spanish Songs) by Alberto Hemsi in this 3-CD set released by Hänsser Classic on September 30, 2020 …
05/10/2020
En allant à Uskudar
The first album of Les Oreilles d’Aman, En allant à Uskudar (Going to Uskudar) explores the interbreedings of Jewish music, Turkish and Balkan melodies, with Klezmer and Gypsy tunes, passing by jazz, Occitan or classical music …
14/07/2020
Josef Josef
The first album of the band Josef Josef, released by the Buda Musique label, is composed of Yiddish, Gypsy, and Russian songs …
