Various Artists - New Jewish Music 3 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Hanukka, the Festival of Dedication, is celebrated by Jews everywhere to commemorate the heroic Maccabean victory in 165 B.C.E. over the Greco-Syrians in the fight for religious freedom. It marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem. Album Tracks 1. B'rakhot L'hanukka - Raymond Goldstein 2. Hannerot Hallalu - Hugo Adler 3. Ma' Oz Tzur - Aaron Miller 4. To Celebrate a Miracle - Samuel Dler 5. Likhtelekh - Leo Low 6. Di Khanike Likht - Zavel Zilberts 7. Hanukka Madrigal (Mi Y'mallel?) - Herbert Fromm 8. The Flames of Freedom O Rock of My Salvation - Samuel Adler 9. The Flames of Freedom The Lights We Have Kindled - Samuel Adler 10. The Flames of Freedom For the Miracles - Samuel Adler 11. The Flames of Freedom Who Kindled These Lights? - Samuel Adler 12. The Flames of Freedom Into the Temple Judah Came - Samuel Adler 13. The Flames of Freedom Who Can Retell? - Samuel Adler 14. The Flames of Freedom Candles in the Night - Samuel Adler 15. The Flames of Freedom Rock of Ages - Samuel Adler 16. Mizmor Shir Hannukkat Habbayit - Solomon Ancis 17. Nun, Gimel, Hei, Shin - Judith Shatin 18. Adonai Z'kharanu - Alexander Olshanetsky 19. Aspects of a Great Miracle Light the Legend - Michael Isaacson 20. Aspects of a Great Miracle A Hanukka Dreidl - Michael Isaacson 21. Aspects of a Great Miracle Light - Michael Isaacson 22. Aspects of a Great Miracle Psalm 150 - Michael Isaacson

NESHIMA is Orí Harmelin's exciting debut solo lute and theorbo album. Orí explores a new realm of possibilities for personal creation as a modern musician using the musical language of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The album contains Orí's arrangements of Madrigals, Motets and Chansons by Cipriano de Rore, Josquin des Prez and Thomas Tallis, alongside his own compositions of variation pieces such as La Monica, the passacaglia and Ballo del Granduca as well as original compositions using the tools of this musical language. Additionally, this album contains one piece for theorbo written for Orí by the composer Simon MacHale. NESHIMA is Hebrew for breath. In enhancing on the title Ori wrote Inchour breath is our constant friend. While breath is universal in that it is what connects us with life, it is also extremely personal, my breath is my life.Inch Between Orí's creation of this album, it's name, and Orí's performance, we experience an extremely intimate encounter that connects us to the world of historical plucked instruments on a whole new level. Album Tracks 1. Ricercar 2. Amor Ben Mi Credevo 3. Ballo de Granduca 4. Passacaglia 5. Fancy 6. O Sacrim Convivium 7. La Monica 8. Ancor Che Col Partire 9. Sicut Cervus Desiderat 10. Mille Regretz 11. Simon's Piece

This cycle of Jewish Songs is born of my research on traditional Hebrew music, a deeply rooted ancient music which has accompanied the Jewish people throughout centuries of wandering. I listened to the liturgical melodies from different sources and was mostly inspired by the art of singing of the Jewish cantors or Hazzans, in particular by their very expressive, but contained, interior way of singing. It is music in which the sacred and popular intermingle. Whether lighthearted or sad, slow or fast, prayer, popular song or dance, it is always shared, always intimate. It felt also as though I had always known this music, even before I was born. It was a very strange sensation. Sonia Wieder-Atherton Album Tracks 1. Kol Nidre 2. Questions 3. Psaume 4. Conversation 5. Nigun 6. Prière 7. Chanson 8. Kaddish 9. Psalmodie 10. Chemah 11. Incertitude 12. Danse 13. Chant Hassidisque 14. Elégie 15. Chanson Hébraïque 16. Kaddish 17. Enigme Éternelle