Last year, the BBC Singers conducted by Malcolm Singer gave a concert of Jewish choral and cantorial music at at St John's, Smith Square, London, which featured a rare appearance by the great American cantor Alberto Mizrahi. Malcolm Singer talks to
Jeremy Summerly about the history of Jewish choral singing and introduces music old and new from a number of different traditions, ranging from a motet by a contemporary of Monteverdi to music by Milhaud and Bernstein, as well as by Singer himself. With Rivka Golani (viola) and Harold Lester (piano/organ).