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Listen (& Sing!)

Trost ("Lament") by Salmon Sulzer

A art song of faith, written and composed by the first modern cantor, Salomon Sulzer (1804-1890). Sung live at Leuphana University in Germany in November 2023.

Ki Hinei Kachomer (2021)

"As clay in the hands of the potter" -- a prayer for the evening of Yom Kippur.Set to the traditional High Holiday tune for "Yigdal."

Sung with guitar, in Hebrew & English.

A Yiddish Sea Shanty (2021)

With new yiddish lyrics by Michael Wex, a Jewish adaptation of the TikTok craze, the Wellerman.

Download the lyrics here

Niggun/Sefirat HaOmer (2019)

Old-school chazonus for Sefirat HaOmer and Ribono Shel Olam (Master of the Universe) by Ephraim Rozumni, interspersed with an original niggun. 

Simple Song (2017)

This opening song from Leonard Bernstein's MASS calls for the cultivation of  a simple, personal faith through music. 

HaMelekh (2016)

A new commission by Jonathan Leshnoff, this chazonus art song combines classic cantorial singing with lyric romantic art song to give expression to the intimacy of meeting God in prayer.

T'filah Unbound 06 - A Dudele
04:20
Walk Humbly Son
02:59
Matt Klein - Fifth Year - Nusah Presentation (Fall 2010)
23:11
"Elohai N'shama" by Hazzan Matthew Klein
01:33
SR12: Umordechai Yatza - "Wizards of Ashkenaz"
01:39

©2024 by Matthew Austerklein.

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