December 17th, 2021 – Shabbat is almost here
And today we have a very special celebration: 100 editions of MBS. Which is your favourite?
Hello, how are you? I hope well. The edition of today is special. Today’s this is the edition number 100. I have decided to make a kind of summary of these previous 99 editions, using several categories, for you to check your favourite past contents, some of which you might have even missed at their moment. Some editions fit into several categories and I have tried to show it like that.Do you have any topic or kind of music that you specially like? Let me know, I’d like to consider the readers’ interest for the next 100 editions 😉
Aaaaaaaand, do you have any edition of all the MBS that is your favourite? Please, let me know!
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Great hazzanim
As you already know, I am a big fan of the great hazzanim of all times. Which is your favourite? Click to visit each edition:
- One of the best cantors ever: Shimon Farkas
- Yaakov “Yanky” Lemmer. From the heart of NY for you.
- Possibly the highest-paid Chazan of all time: Cantor Zavel Kwartin
- The sanctum sanctorum of hazzanuz and the Jewish Caruso: Gershon Yitzchok Sirota
- From the shtetl to the films with Yossele Rosenblatt, «The Jazz Singer» and A Yiddishe Momme
- Cantor İsak Maçoro
- Cantor Hans Bloemendal
- The secret of Shabbat in Aramaic, by cantor Pierre Pinchik
- Cantor Israel Shorr, the brilliant composer who left too soon
- The black cantor Thomas La-Rue, through Henry Sapoznik
- The chazan’s chazan born in a land of shifting borders: Moshe Koussevitzky
- The Polish legacy saved by a Finnish man and brought to us by a British label: from Syrena to Renair with Salomon Kupfer
- Leib Glantz
- Chazzan Moshe Bazian – Rachamono D’onay
- Hazan David Kadoch – Tikun Hatal
Sephardic thrill
The Sephardic culture has been fruitful in music and stories. Let’s enjoy some of the greatest voices. Click to visit each edition:
- A song of fantasy and dream by the charming singer Stella Haskil
- Tu B’Av, and a song by Victoria Hazan of passionate love and devotion ?
- Victoria Hazan, the Sephardic Anatolian voice of fire ?
- The Ladino version of a song that has crossed cultures and generations, by Jack Mayesh
- With Izak Algazi Efendi, a song about a ravaging love ?
- Bienvenida Aguado – La mujer de Terah
- Back to 1497 and a tragic story in the sweetest voice: Bienvenida Aguado
- A great feast of Hanukkah with Bienvenida Aguado’s voice
- The first commercial Sephardi recording… probably! Haim Effendi is our protagonist
- Jako el Muzikante – letter from Hadrianopolis
- Jako el Muzikante – Madam Gaspard
- With Jako el Muzikante. Yearnings that you will, or will not, share ?
- A talk with a generous disseminator, Joel Bresler, and the quest for the multiples branches of an artistic seed and the voice of Ruth Yaakok
- Hazan David Kadoch – Tikun Hatal
North African magic
Some outstanding artists from North Africa, which most of the times are not remembered enough. Enjoy the charm of their melismatic voices. Click to visit each edition:
- Hbiba Msika, a star whose wake was extinguished too soon
- Bishi Slâma, outstanding Tunisian singer
- Algerian Jew Cheikh Zekri singing an inqilab
- An unforgotten diva, Zohra El Fassia, and the collector that guarantees the remembrance, Chris Silver
- The cultural redeemer for the North African Jews in Israel, Rabbi David Bouzaglo
- The central link of a chain from the beginning of XIX century until our todays: Saoud l’Oranaise
- The brave blind girl who turned into more than a little queen: Reinette l’Orainese
- One of those Algerian Jewish artists too little remembered: Cheikh Zouzou
- Salim Halali and two thrilling tales. Believe or not, it is up to you
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This is klezmer!
Joyful or dramatic, spidic or contemplative, the klezmer music is fascinating. Click to visit each edition:
- Two klezmer styles and two masters worth remembering: Hymie Jacobson and Paul Pincus
- One of the greatest hits in the history of klezmer, by the Art Shryer’s Orchestra
- Naftule Brandwein – Fun tashlach
- A master of the klezmer clarinet. Welcome, Mr. Dave Tarras
- David Krakauer’s special voice message
- Klezmer from before the World War I. Can you imagine how it sounds? ?
- Before Simchat Torah, with Belf’s Romanian Orchestra: put on your dancing shoes ?
- Moshe Band – Klein un Grosser
- With Meshuge Klezmer Band I must confess…
- A story of family love with Ramzailech
- Frajda by Janusz Prusinowski Kompania
Yemenite spells
The music from the Yemenite Jews has been a source for currently active artists thanks to its charm and deepness. Enjoy also some historic performers. Click to visit each edition:
- The Yemenite poem “Kirya Yefefia” by the master Aharon Amram
- The same melody by Aharon Amram and by Gulaza
- A piyyut sang by Yemenites in 1957 in Israel, recorded by a Bengali ethnomusicologist: Deben Battacharya
- With Suliman the Great, but the one of XX century!
- The crystallisation of a song and the Diwan of Yemenite Jews
- A pioneer diva: Shoshana Damari
- Zabibi, by Gulaza
- Gulaza – Salam Yalbint
Vanishing Jewish cultures
Jews from India, Ethiopia, Syria… made prosperous communities in other time. Now, their thrace is fading out but their cultural legacy will never be forgotten. Click to visit each edition:
- The Beta Israel, the Jews from Ethiopia
- A -not so- forgotten master from Syria: Moshe Eliyahu
- A fading world: the Jews in Afghanistan
- A Georgian feast
- The restored masters of Iraqi Jewish music: the Al-Kuwaity brothers
- The fragile world of the Jews from India
- Kurdish Jewish inspiration, by two enchanting gentlemen: Ronen Yona and Zafrid Ifrach
- The Romaniote Jews
- Jews in Uzbekistan, a History of millenia
- Let’s travel to Quba and join me to dance a Lezginka with the Juhuri
- After Tu B’Shvat, with the Iraqi song for the blooming trees by Rabbi David Menachem and two legends about Yosef Chaim
- The Romanian Gypsy «Paganini» who kept Jewish tunes alive
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Songs for the Jewish festivities and liturgy
Yom Kippur, Hanukkah, Purim… There are some iconic songs for the jewish festivities. Click to visit each edition:
- Maoz Tzur, before Hanukkah, by David Kadoch
- Et Shaare Ratzon, from Rosh Hashanah
- Kol Nidre (for Yom Kippur) in a Sephardic version, by Rabbi Eliahou Elbaz
- Kol Nidre by Itzhak Perlman & Yitzchak Meir Helfgot
- Shabbat Shuvah with Kol Nidre by Yisrael Oshri
- A very popular piece with 3 enigmas by 3 cantors: Chassidic Kaddish
- A multicultural approach to Chad Gadya (for Pesach)
- Shavuot! With nouba Raml Maya
- A great feast of Hanukkah with Bienvenida Aguado’s voice
- A Yiddish time machine… before Shavuot with Di Tsaytmashin. Enjoy your cheese ?
- Before Simchat Torah, with Belf’s Romanian Orchestra: put on your dancing shoes ?
- Before Rosh Hashanah with Keter Musaf by Rabbi Hagay Batzri
- A suite of zemirot, by Gadi Erenberg. Aren’t you hungry? ??
- Janucá con alegrías – Jako el Muzikante
- After Tu B’Shvat, with the Iraqi song for the blooming trees by Rabbi David Menachem and two legends about Yosef Chaim
Divas and other bright stars
Personalities who have been a benchmark in the history of Jewish music in the XX century. Click to visit each edition:
- Travel to Cyprus to remember a moment of misery but also of new beginnings and hope. Shoshana Damari with a Bedouin song
- A pioneer diva: Shoshana Damari
- The old time diva Bracha Tzafira and the magic piano of Nahum Nardi
- Miriam Kressyn and an iconic glissando you’ve listened to hundreds of times
- A tribute to the musicians: Yossel Der Klezmer, by Theodore Bikel, and Yosl Klezmer, by Lazar Weiner
- The Yemenite poem “Kirya Yefefia” by the master Aharon Amram
- A super star of the Yiddish films from the 30s: Moyshe Oysher
Artists of todays
MBS has a special interest in old recordings, but current artists who create something interesting also have their place. Click to visit each edition:
- A piyut for havdalah by a Serbian band: Shira U’tfila
- A joyful tribute to life with Benny Friedman
- A Yemenite poem “Kirya Yefefia” by an Italian-Libyan artist
- Frank London and his “Ghetto Songs”
- David Krakauer’s special voice message
- Moshe Band – Klein un Grosser
- A Yiddish time machine… before Shavuot with Di Tsaytmashin. Enjoy your cheese ?
- With Meshuge Klezmer Band I must confess…
- Jako el Muzikante – letter from Hadrianopolis
- Jako el Muzikante – Madam Gaspard
- With Jako el Muzikante. Yearnings that you will, or will not, share ?
- A story of family love with Ramzailech
- All roads lead to Poland… or to Yemen. With Olga Mieleszczuk
- Bringing back to live the Soviet Yiddish songs of World War II with Daniel Rosenberg and the thrilling project Yiddish Glory!
- With a legend in music, by John Zorn
- The Jewish poet Julian Tuwim, author of “Chrystus”, sang by Janusz Prusinowski
- Frajda by Janusz Prusinowski Kompania
- The Jewish music from the place where all was lost: the reconstruction of the Hungarian Jewish music with Di Naye Kapelye
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