VISAGES ANTIQUES D'ISRAËL
Alienor CD AL 1092

This recording (aka La musique de la Bible révélée, Volume 4) was produced in 1999 by Mira Zakai (e-mail), a renowned Israeli contralto and Professor of Voice whose life and work are summarized on her Home Page.

This recording is even longer than Psaumes de David (by about six minutes). The recording of the Book of Ruth is notable in that its modal structure is not the same as that which Mme. Haïk-Vantoura originally inferred in her melody-only score Quatre Meghillot. For example, Chapter 1, rather than sharing the sweetness which begins Chapter 2, begins with a rather disturbing mode found in Isaiah 6 and 61, the Valley of Dry Bones in Ezekiel 37, and other piquant texts.

N.B.: This recording is now available via online order from the Official Web Site of Esther Lamandier (e-mail) or via postal order. The cost is 22 euros including postage (see the Web site for ordering details). It is also available online from Jewish Music - JMD in the UK (see search results: "Vantoura" and "Esther Lamandier"). This recording is currently available from Alapage.com in France (scroll down the following pages for lists of Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura's and Esther Lamandier's recordings).

Several new CDs and CD-ROMs, plus Latinized Hebrew-English booklets for some of the original recordings, are available from King David's Harp, Inc. (e-mail). You may download and print this order form in order to obtain these recordings and CD-ROMs (see this page). You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to read and print these files (click on the button on the above left).

LIST OF TRACKS:

1 Chronicles 16:1-7 (The Installation of the Ark of the Covenant)

1 Chronicles 16:8-36 (The Song of the Ark)

Exodus 14:15-31 (The Crossing of the Red Sea)

Ruth 1:1-22 ("Now it came to pass when the judges ruled...")

Ruth 2:1-23 ("Now Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's...")

Ruth 3:1-18 ("Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her...")

Ruth 4:1-22 ("And Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there...")

2 Samuel 1:19-27 (The Elegy of David for Saul and Jonathan)

Lamentations 1:1-22 ("How lonely sits the city...")

Lamentations 3:1-66 ("I am the man who has seen affliction...")

Updated November 05, 2008