I intend to put my entire collection of live chazzanut up for download. Simcha put a good deal of it up before, and much of what I put up will be repetitive of that. The advantage of what I plan to do is that the entire collection will be available in one place. I have also arranged with another participant on this forum to digitize my cassette collection of live and rare cantorial recordings. As those are digitized, I will make them available as well. I'm doing this for two reasons. First of all, great chazzanut is the intellectual/spritual heritage of all Klal Yisrael and like Divrei Torah, should be available to anyone who desires to experience it. Secondly, I hope that by doing this, it will encourage others who have similar collections to do likewise. The following is the link to the files:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=12a829653ba8f5b7d1014a7a667fa2b43590e5b8aaa1b4959308cbc0e1e08351

Yasher Koach!

Thus far I have uploaded 26 albums with a total of 571 files. Enjoy. And I hope others will begin doing likewise.

Thank you for this incredibly generous undertaking.

I have navigated to the link which you have posted above, but the page at mediafire tells me there are no files to download. Am I doing something wrong?

I just tried the link and it worked. If you wish, e-mail me off site and I'll send you the link that way. Perhaps that will work better for you.

a collection of cantor Israel Bakon 78rpm recordings
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?myljzm52gmz
Cantor Kalman Stekel,served in congregation Moriah,New York from 1968 until 1973
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wjmuziqtz0y
Israeli radio cantorial programs and cantorial segments
http://chazzanut.org/download/libsonmo/

Thus far I've uploaded 33 albums (although some of them are comprised of up to nine CD's), totalling some 650 files.

Yasher koach to libsonmo for his contribution. The six albums called "Great Cantorial Masterpieces" which I've uploaded came from his site at chazzanut.org.

Thank you Cantor Schwartz! For everyone's convenience I have made a new shorter and easy to remember url to access the collection. It is tinyurl.com/cantorschwartz.
BTW one previously posted recording that I don't see in this collection is a slichos by Cantor Schwartz :).

Since you asked, my 2006 Slichot is now uploaded, along with a few other juicy tidbits.

thank you very much Cantor Schwartz, what a rare treat to say the least.
Do you know approximately what year this was done

Yasher Koach

Dear schwartzesq,
A particular thank you for including the rare recording of the beautiful voice/davening of master cantor Shlomo Mandel.
Best Regards
mancunian

Yankeeo, about which recording are you asking? Mancunian, the Mandel Maariv is very important, considering that Mandel very rarely gave concerts. He much preferred the amud over the stage. That recording was a recent acquisition, from Moshe Libson's site, I believe.

I'm uploading my Zvee Aroni material tonight. Aroni was an amazing Chazzan, a real under appreciated gem. The live Sukkot is a classic.

Dear schwartzesq

the moshe oysher recording
thanks

Details for the Hungarian Cantors
http://www.hagalil.com/sound/kantoral/ungarn/chasanuth.htm

Cantor Jozsef Fisch (No 26) survived the holocast and died in tragedic event in Tel Aviv at the early 50\'s

I can\'t download file No 15

I don't what File 15 is not working. I tried uploading it a few more times, but it didn't help.

here is some more from chazan Israel Bakon who died at a very young age in Auschwitz
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=0461736b17f1ea8b6b13f74534c92e8524e3a85de561e272ea4ac78345cbe4ce

dr

as far as i know, chazan Israel Bakon was born near Auschwitz and was murdered in Belzec in early 1943. his wife and their son were murdered in the same camp.

he was born in kshaniv which is in south galicia, auschwitz (aushptzin) is also in the south part, were he died exactly I can't tell you but you might be right,(btw his family was killed there too wife and three children) he was still a very young chazzan with a bright future untill hitler got involved hashem yinkon domom

Israel Bacon was born in a Hasidic family in 1910 in the town Hrzhanov 25 km from Cracow and 15 km from Auschwitz (Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Poland). His father, Hersh Leib Bacon was a hereditary offices, and even his name is an acronym for the phrase "Bnei Kadosh venitbahim / Sons of the saints and martyrs."

After gaining independence by Poland in its territory, a wave of pogroms against the Jews. To save the family Hirsch Leib Bacon first moved her to London and then to Berlin, where in 1919 he received the post of cantor of the synagogue on the street Grenadiers 37 (currently ul Almshtadt) in the area Sheynenfirtel where in eastern Europe have moved many of the Hasidim. Israel studied in the yeshiva of Rabbi Halberstama and assisted his father. However, the fall of 1923 the family returned Bacon back in Hrzhanov. The younger brother of Israel, Isaac, believed that his father had taken such a step, so that his children "were Jews," and not succumb to the temptations of Berlin.

In Poland, Israel Bacon continued his studies of Jewish liturgy from his father, and then from other reputable specialists in Poland.

In 1931, Israel Bacon left Poland. First, he spent some time in Kosice (Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia), then moved to Berlin, where he quickly became a popular performer of Jewish songs. Bacon gave concerts in Antwerp, London, Hamburg and other European cities. In 1935, Bacon met with Hirsch Levin, owner of record company «Semer / Song", whose shop was in Berlin on the street Grenadiers 28. It Levin in February 1936 produced the first record Yisrael Bakony.

In 1939, Bacon was able to flee from Berlin to Poland, in the Galician shtetl Kolbuszowa. After the seizure of Poland Bacon, in 1941, was deported to the ghetto of the city Tarnow. In early 1943, Israel Bacon, his wife and their son were killed in a concentration camp Belzec (Poland).

google translation from
http://yiddishmusic.jewniverse.info/bakonisrael/index.html

I've topped 1000 files uploaded. Enjoy

1,100 or so files uploaded thus far. Happy listening.