… brought to the Vizhnitz court by the composer's son, the cantor and badkhn Yehezkel Klagsbald (1904-1993), on one of … Klagsbald was an inexhaustible source of niggunim and cantorial compositions for the Vizhnitz Hasidim. The badkhn …

… Berak, 11 February 1987. A niggun of unknown origin. A cantor and badkhn named Yehezkel Klagsbald (1904- 1993) … similar in style to compositions by the well-known Hasidic cantor Zeydl Rovner, some of whose works are regularly sung …

… thus seems to indicate that "Berah dodi" was composed by a cantor of Hasidic origin. The melody is adapted to the …

… Boyaner Rebbe claims that this niggun was composed by Cantor Pinhas ("Pinye") Spector (1872-1951) during one of his terms of office as cantor and "court composer" of the dynasty in the first half …

… after the verses " Attah hor'eita la-da'at ," while the cantor recites various texts before the haqqafot . Some also …

… 1950s, and we may assume that the Moroccan paytanim and cantors adapted the melody from one of these recordings. … tab ), the initiator of this adaptation may have been cantor and teacher Yitzhak Kedoshim, choir conductor at Em …

… constructed as follows: the first unit is performed by the cantor in a musical progression without fixed beat in an …

… is rendered with a more fluid rhythm. In versions sung by cantors from Turkey, the melodic progression of this melody … recalls the seyir (path) of makam Hüseyni. Indeed, Turkish cantors employ microtonal inflections of pitches 6 and 2 … few piyyutim known to have been used in such a context. Cantor Ezra Barnea recalled in his memoirs that in 1955 his …

… Consecration of the Sabbath, sung by the cantor and the congregation in the Friday Evening Service …

… a great enthusiasm." Our version follows that of the Chabad cantor Berele Zaltsman. The text is a russian translation of …

… in the world of Sephardic hazzanut (and in his late years, cantor of the Syrian community in Brooklyn), conferred that … recording echoes in another early version, this one by the cantor, composer and educator Nissan Cohen Melamed …

… is a traditional melody that is elaborated by the cantor using virtuoso vocal resources such as long sustained …