Lekhah Dodi for baritone and boys choir - Fernando Belgrado, Firenze (7)

Lekhah Dodi for baritone and boys choir - Fernando Belgrado, Firenze (7)

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present in the Shabbat section of the "minhag Firenze" website, as "Lecha Dodi (vers. 2)"

http://www.minhagfirenze.it/resources/mNaviga.aspx?pag=EVENTO&id=1

Born in Firenze, 31/05/1913. Studies at the Collegio Rabbinico di Firenze and Collegio Rabbinico di Roma. Chazan in Firenze since the early 1930s, then assistant rabbi to rabbi Nathan Cassuto. Acting Chief Rabbi in Firenze since after the war, is formally Chief Rabbi from 1963 to 1978. Dies in Firenze, 11/04/1998.

see:
A. Zimmerman, Belgrado, David Fernando , Encyclopaedia Judaica 2, voi. 3, col. 289 (born 1918)

https://www.rabbini.it/fernando-david-shlomo-belgrado/

Piattelli, Angelo Mordekhai. “REPERTORIO BIOGRAFICO DEI RABBINI D'ITALIA DAL 1861 AL 2011.” La Rassegna Mensile Di Israel, vol. 76, no. 1/2, 2010, pp. 185–256. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41619019. Accessed 4 April 2021.

Manuscript belonging to rav Belgrado, present in the "minhag Firenze" website as "Due volumi di spartiti (archivio Renzo Ventura) vol.1", 19 Lecha Dodi http://www.minhagfirenze.it/resources/mNaviga.aspx?pag=TESTI

Here presented are two separate recordings, the first from the Leo Levi collection, the second made by rav Belgrado for instructional purposes, singing the full extent of the poem strophes and preceding it with the indication "Altro Lekhah Dodi per chazan e coro, musica del Maestro Levi", indication also found on the manuscript: "per baritono e ragazzi, del maestro Levi", for baritone and boys choir.