Re: Take Two : Portuguese-Sephardic recordings

[Klezcorner <Klezcorner...>]

Dear Sam and List memebers.

I also think this is a beautiful recording and deserves a larger audience. 

I have had many requests for "any Portuguese, Ladino- Sephardic" recordings, 
however have had very little luck in locating any other than the one mentioned 
in Sam's review, and a cassette, "Music of the Spanish and Portuguese 
Synagogue" which was originally on the Folkways label.

If anyone knows of any other "Portuguese" recordings, I would be very 
grateful if you could notify me as I would very much like to add them to our 
catalog.

Thank You
Simon
Hatikvah Music
323) 655-7083
<< I just had the opportunity to listen to a French recording I got from 
Hatikvah Music, "Musiques de la Synagogue de Bordeaux: Rite Portugais." 
which features several Sephardic cantors and a wonderful male choir with a 
sound not unlike the presentation by Mr. Mehler's choir.  From the musical 
content as well as the liner notes it is clear that there was much 
conscious synagogue composition in the prevailing operatic idiom.  (Judith 
Cohen had referred to this as well.)  And it is quite likely that such 
pieces travelled between the various Portuguese Sephardic communities in 
Europe.  But my main purpose in writing this is to recommend the CD.  It is 
 >>

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