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Musiques liturgiques des Juifs de Tlemcen

This 6-CD set is devoted to the specific liturgy of the thousand-year-old Jewish community of Tlemcen …

The prayer of Kol Nidre

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY OCTOBER 25, 2011, JUDAIQUE FM, 21h05. "Kol Nidre", with these words start the impressive and deep prayer starting the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur. By singing the Kol Nidre, the worshippers beg humbly God to cancel all the wishes, oaths, engagements …

Baroque Jewish Music – Venice, Mantua, Amsterdam (1623 – 1774)

This CD, edited in homage to Israel Adler, includes 13 compositions by Salamone Rossi, Abraham Caceres and Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti, that witness the beauty of Jewish musical practice in Italy and Amsterdam, from the Baroque period to the beginning of the galant style …

The renew of Judeo-Spanish music

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2011, JUDAIQUE FM, 21h05. Since several years, Judeo-Spanish music know a real renewal, with the emergence of a new generation of artists, determined to shake the repertoire of traditional songs. With Emmanuelle Rouvray, Thomas Baudrillier and Jessica Roda …

Le chant liturgique juif éthiopien

This book by Olivier Tourny, ethnomusicologist in the CNRS and former director of the French Research Center in Jerusalem, describes in a pedagogical way the fascinating musical tradition of Ethiopian Jews …

Axerico en Selanik

The French duet Mazal, with Emmanuelle Rouvray (vocals, percussions) and Thomas Baudriller (programming, sampler, bass, doublebass, mandoline), perform 10 traditional Sefardi songs in a musical electro-dance environment …

Ben Adama

Recording of a concert of liturgical and traditional songs from Morocco, performed by the Rabbi Abraham Dahan, from the Beth Hillel community of Brussels, accompanied by Mustapha Largo and an Eastern instrumental ensemble …

The Ethiopian Jewish liturgical songs

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY AUGUST 30, 2011, JUDAIQUE FM, 21h05. A radio program with Olivier Tourny, ethnomusicologist at the CNRS, who has devoted nearly 20 years of his life to Ethiopian Jewish music …

Classic Yiddish Klezmer – 1905-1916

The 26 tunes of this compilation restore a part of the klezmer music repertoire edited in the USA in the beginning of the 20th century …

The role of Jewish musicians in 19th century Paris : the case of Henri Herz (Vienna 1803- Paris 1888)

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY JULY 5, 2011, JUDAIQUE FM, 21h05. With this work on Henri Herz, the musicologist Laure Schnapper talks in particular about the role of the Jewish composers – such as Hertz, Alkan, Fromental Halévy, Meyerbeer, Offenbach…in the 19th century's French music …