Yigdal (Shabbaton Choir)

Sung by Chazanim Rabbi Lionel Rosenfeld and Jonny Turgel with The Shabbaton Choir at a concert at Young Israel of Scarsdale, NY on 29 November 2009.

[@aardvark1956]

This song and the boy’s voice make me want to weep with joy. Praise be to the Almighty, the Creator of the Universe!

[@pamelahackner7421]

Beautiful

[@MrsAnneLark]

Thank you for sharing this source of joy and inspiration! The strength and depth of this choir is amazing!

[@jhgreenstein]

Abraham Saqui choirmaster at Princes Road Synagogue in Liverpool UK.

[@normancohen9097]

Heard it first at Childwall Synagogue Shemini Azteret 1968

[@jacobsolomon8495]

It was to this excellent tune that Yigdal was sung on the Chagim where I grew up in the north of England. Yet I never heard it sung in any London synagogue, so perhaps it did not break through the "Watford Gap". It is wonderful the Shabbaton Choir has presented this moving and evocative rendering to the discerning public - thank you!

[@cymruisrael]

To the best of my memory, this is the tune for RH and YK.

[@alanthefoot]

Sung on Pesach in Edgware United shul there is a different tune for each chag and yomim narayim

[@alanthefoot]

There is a different tune for each chag and yomim narayim

[@jacobsolomon8495]

@@alanthefoot The different tune for each of the Chagim seems to be the practice in the practice in London synagogues I visited. I believed that they were the work of the same composer, Julius Mombach, choirmaster of the London Great Synagogue of Dukes Place for much of the nineteenth century. The much-loved RH/YK tune for Yigdal I have heard has Sephardi roots. This one I've heard on the Chagim in Manchester, Liverpool, and Birmingham, but not beyond the southern end of Watford Gap.

[@ianviner7410]

Greenbank Drive lives on but this was the Succoth, Pesach and Shavuot tune

[@MightyTenor]

Saqui is the composer.

[@jewishmafia1]

Very nice

[@jhgreenstein]

c.1824. - 1893