Re: Kol Nidrei collection

[Jewish Music Distribution <jmduk...>]

There are a few more recordings of cantor Hainowitz available from us. One
is a 6 CD set  P'tach Lanu Sha'ar, the complete service for the High
Holidays with cantor Hainowitz.   Editor Ezra Barnea, and accompanied by
Raymond Goldstein. Also he is on a three cantors CD singing some solo and
some duets...

Yours

Noa Lachman
Jewish Music Distribution
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----- Original Message -----
From: <SamWeiss (at) bellatlantic(dot)net>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:09 PM
Subject: Kol Nidrei collection


> I just finished listening to a very interesting CD called "The Kol Nidrei
> Prayer - In The Tradition Of The Communities Of Israel". The recording is
> published in Israel and not easily available here in the US.
> I got my copy from Hatikvah Music
> http://www.hatikvahmusic.com/cgi-bin/details.pl?key=1005
>
> Listening to this collection is guaranteed to give you a fresh perspective
> on Nusakh.  It's seventeen different versions of Kol Nidrei, ranging from
a
> 58-second no-frills version all the way to a gorgeous 10 minute (from 'Or
> Zarua' through 'Salachti Kidvarecha') rendition by Asher Hainowitz, cantor
> at Jerusalem's Yeshurun Synagogue.  (This is the first recording I've ever
> come across of this wonderful Hazzan, though I've always admired him
> whenever I heard him in shul.)
>
> The booklet includes all the variant versions of the text that the various
> rites employ. In addition to gaining an insight into the various musical
> approaches, the CD is also a compendium of various pronunciations of
> Hebrew.  (I was surprised to learn that many traditions pronounce the
> opening word as "Kal" rather than "Kol").  Except for the Ashkenazi
version
> and a couple of the others, the renditions are unaccompanied.  Some of the
> tracks even include a small unison "chorus" so you get a flavor of the
> congregational environment that the prayer is sung in.
>
> Here is the table of contents, from
>
> 1.   Sephardic Jerusalem Version (Ezra Barnea)
> 2.   Ashkenazi Version (Asher Hainowitz)
> 3.   Turkish Version ( Various)
> 4.   Babylonian Version (Moshe Mutsafi)
> 5.   Moroccan Version (Moshe Almakias)
> 6.   Yemen Version (Aharon Amram)
> 7.   Tunis Version (Michael Siotbon)
> 8.   Kurdistan Version (Mamadia Yosef Tchuna & Shabtai Nessim)
> 9.   Afghanistan Version (Yaakov Bezales)
> 10.   Cochin Version (Eliahu Moshe)
> 11.   Bukhara Version (Yigal Ben Haim & Moshe Halawa)
> 12.   Salonika Version
> 13.   Persia Version (Ovadia Nataneli)
> 14.   Aleppo Version (Avraham Eini)
> 15.   Italy (Florence) Version (Hezkia Ganazani)
> 16.   Haban Version (Avraham Ben Saliman)
> 17.   Constantine Version (Ilan Gadzo)
>
>
>
> _____________________________________________________________
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>
>
>

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