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Jewish music sources in France

Hervé Roten - Proceedings of the 19th AIBM Congress - July 2001 and presentation of his research work …

Mindru Katz

Mindru Katz, a Romanian pianist born in Bucharest on June 3, 1925, emigrated in Israel in 1959. A brilliant international career led him to perform in many countries, solo concerts but also under the direction of conductors such as Antal Dorati, Sergiu Celibidache, Lorin Maazel …

Tafillalt

Original members of Haoman 18, Israeli counterpart of Radical Jewish Culture, Yaïr Harel, Nori Jacoby and Yonatan Niv navigate in the multicultural Israeli realm of the 21st century …

Yedid Nefesh – Amant de mon âme

Romances, coplas, kantigas, piyyutim, a poetic CD by Yaïr Harel, Meirav Ben David-Harel, Michèle Claude and Nima Ben David …

Alberto Hemsi – Coplas sefardies

The Coplas Serfardies are a collection of Judeo-Spanish songs for voice and piano, written by Alberto Hemsi and based on 230 poems and melodies collected in the Sephardi communities of the ancient Ottoman Empire between 1923 and 1937 …

Shalom Berlinski – The voice of fervor

A rare and beautiful anthology of the French Ashkenazi liturgy sung by Shalom Berlinski, cantor at the Synagogue de la Victoire (Paris) from 1948 to 1979, with Jean Bonfils (organ/piano), the Colonne Orchestra and a mixed choir of 32 singers …

Judeo-French music from the 18th and 19th century

This CD, performed by the cantor Adolphe Attia, accompanied by Mag Tayar (harpsichord, piano) and a choir directed by Michel Podolak, offers us an overview of the liturgical traditions of the Comtadins, the Portuguese and the Ashkenazim in France in the 18th and 19th centuries …

Music from the synagogue of Bordeaux – Portuguese Rite

Recording of the concert of October 14, 2002 at the Great Synagogue of Bordeaux, to celebrate the 120th anniversary of its construction, with the main tunes of the Portuguese liturgy, performed by Adolphe Attia, Malkiel Benamara, Léon Cohen and Didier Kassabi, accompanied by Mag Tayar, organist of the Great Synagogue of Marseille …

Kol Nidré concert and lecture (Paris)

November 18 and 22, 2009 at ULIF-Copernic, concerts and conference organized by CFMJ (now IEMJ) and the 4 liberal communities of Paris (ULIF, MJLF, CJL, KG) …

Tribute Concert to Jacques Grober

September 23, 2008, in the Salle Cortot in Paris, CD release concert Jacques Grober - Chansons yiddish d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, 7th CD in the collection MHJF …