Recordings of Liturgical Music by Cantor Nissanyan, Jerusalem, March 3, 1961
Edith Gerson Kiwi’s Recordings of Musical Traditions from Iran
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Nishmat kol hay (morning prayers for Sabbath and Holy Days)
- “Nishmat kol hay,” from the opening section of the morning prayers for the Sabbath and Holy Days.
- “Et sha’arei ratzon,” a piyyut (liturgical poem) on the Binding of Isaac (Genesis 22) by Judah ben Samuel ibn Abbas of Fez recited in Sephardic and Oriental communities prior to the sound of the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah.
- “Adonai sham’ati shim’akha yareti Adonai” Piyyut of the reshut (“permission”) genre sung prior to the repetition of the ‘amidah (Eighteen benedictions) on the High Holy Days musaf service. The opening is a biblical verse (Habaqquq 3:2) that becomes a refrain. The last verse of each stanza is also a Biblical verse ending on “Adonai” as the refrain.
- “Hazon Yeshayahu” (Vision of Isaiah; Isaiah 1:1-27) is the haftarah (additional biblical reading) for the Sabbath before Tisha BeAv, called Shabbat Chazon. The scriptural reading is preceded by the Blessings of the Haftara.
- “Shelah go’el” is a Judeo-Persian wedding song, with a Hebrew refrain.