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Cordoue 21

Six evocative ballads - from Granada to Cordoba, passing through the Balkans, Salonica, Istanbul and even Tunis, Algiers and Paris - construct this album, with the voice of Sandra Bessis, recognized singer of the Sefardi repertoire for more than 25 years, and the voice of Rachid Brahim-Djelloul. …

Irving Berlin

A musical score collection featuring the most popular songs from the American composer Irving Berlin (1888-1989) …

Barry Sisters

(From left to right: Claire and Myrna Barry) Myrna and Clara were born in the Bronx, New York, to Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Herman and Ester, respectively from Russia and Austria, …

Alman, Samuel (1877-1947)

Samuel Alman was born in Sobolevka (Russia), in 1877. The sixth child of a family of 14 children, his father was a talmudist and musician, and his mother an amateur …

Chanukah is coming soon – Concert

Watch excerpts from the Chanukah concert which took place on December 7, 2014, in the Copernic Synagogue in Paris. You will hear the Ensemble Choral Copernic perform the Overture of …

Chanukah, voices of lights

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY DECEMBER 16, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05.Enter the celebrations of Chanukah, with the cantor and rabbi Jacques Arnold : from liturgical tunes to children's songs (spinning tops, doughnuts) and popular songs (Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, Yiddish...) …

Jewish songs of the 13th century in langue d’oïl and Hebrew

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI - TUESDAY NOVEMBER 18, 2014, JUDAÏQUES FM (94.8), 21H05. This programme revives the sound life of the Jewish communities of Northern France in the 13th century and their contacts with the poetry and music of the trouvères …

Kandel, Harry (1885-1943)

Harry Kandel was one of the pioneers of klezmer, the traditional dance music of the European Jews, in the United States. Together with his orchestra, which featured two cornets, four …

Fernand Halphen – Andante religioso

The melody of this work for violin or cello and keyboard (organ or piano) by Fernand Halphen is based on the melody of Friday’s evening prayer Veshomerou sung in the Consistorial synagogues that practice the Ashkenazi rite …

The compleat Klezmer

Published by Tara Publications in 2000, this music score collection, compiled by Henry Sapoznik, is the ultimate klezmer music anthology ! …