This is my personal list of sites with mp3 and other recordings of nusach and Jewish liturgy. I collected these links because I am deeply interested in the music of Jewish liturgy, and I want to learn every melody there is for everything. I am not likely to ever reach this impossible goal, but this list is my attempt at it, at least!
These resources are arranged by an algorithm that considers how extensive a resource the resource is in each area. This consideration is subjective, but if you are looking for a particular High Holiday tune, you are more likely to find it toward the top of the High Holiday page than the bottom. Resources in green contain significant non-Ashkenazi nusach, in some cases alongside Ashkenazi nusach and in other cases to its exclusion.
Keep posted, since I add new resources to this list from time to time. I am also planning on a larger project, but that may be a while coming! If you know of any useful sites not on this list, or notice a miscategorization, please let me know at webmaster@offtonic.com. Notable missing (or not well-covered) recordings include the Saturday night portions of Maariv, Kiddush Levanah, the Hoshanot of Sukkot, Kohelet, the Hakafot and Chatan Torah passages of Simchat Torah, the Al Hanisim paragraph in the Amidah and Birkat Hamazon of Chanukah, Purim, and Yom Haatzmaut (in the Conservative tradition, anyway), the Haggadah chanting of the Magid and others, and, of course, any less famous melodies for well-covered services like Kabbalat Shabbat and Hallel. If you know of any sites with these, please send them along, or hey, record them yourself if you'd like!
Please enjoy this list and may it increase your learning.
Great site with mp3's of nearly everything. This should always be the first stop. His nusach can be unique, at times, and he has great melodies that are hard to find elsewhere.
This is really, really cool. It's a very complete resource for London Sephardic nusach. This main site focuses on congregational melodies, but it links to Shaar Hashamayim for the chanting and the London Sephardi Choir Archive for choral recordings. Here, I consider them all together.
This is a big collection of very musical Dutch Jewish nusach, including sheet music in many cases. It covers many services, including weekday, Shabbat, chag, and High Holidays, with multiple versions at times. This is a very extensive resource. The nusach is in large part compatible with the common Eastern European nusach, and a large number of lectures are provided on the subject as well. The sheet music uses Dutch transliteration, however, so it will look funny to English speakers!
Great site with lots of Chasidic recordings of melodies! Has a section for Sephardic and Chasidic melodies, too. Click on the download links to listen in your browser if the player doesn't work.
A surprisingly large collection of audio classes, including model complete seders, songs and blessings, stuff like that. It's basically an open directory structure, and it's just filled with stuff. It even has correct laining for Job, Proverbs, and Psalms! I should mention that there's much more in here than I can categorize myself, so if I missed anything, let me know! There are many recordings under Songs that I don't immediately recognize, so if you're looking for something in particular, it could be here.
Not what I'm interested in -- until "More Cantorial", where you'll find a Haggadah recording of Cantor Pinchas Rabinowitz with a whole bunch of new tunes. Awesome. Would totally rock if it didn't have blinking animated GIFs.
Absolutely wonderful collection of piyutim (and regular blessings and psalms too, if you look hard enough) from all over the world. It's extensive. Only caveat: the site is in Hebrew, and the English version is improving but still imperfect. This is one of my first sources for relatively rare piyutim.
By the way, there's a bug when you browse or search the archive: the search engine defaults to Temani results only for some reason. To get the full list, just click on "English" next to the search box.
Also a great site with quite a bit. It has most of the Haggadah, as well as melodies for a lot of things on Shabbat and weekdays (all in streaming format). My second stop.
There is a lot here! There are melodies and accompanied recordings for many things, and not so much nusach. If you aren't familiar with Chabad, you'll find exciting combinations here, like using the Hoshia et Amecha tune for the R'tzeh paragraph in the Birkat Hamazon. A fantastic resource.
Very extensive and very specific recordings of a lot of things, in Netherlands and Ashkenazi traditions. Really, really cool.
A big collection of songs, focusing on zemirot and piyutim, with words, translation, and often multiple recordings (though some have none). It's not organized by occasion, so I could be off in my categorizations, but this should be a primary resource for zemirot. There are some Indian (Bene Israel) tunes, but they're all cut off after exactly one minute. Be careful, too, because a few of the recordings are sung without particular attention to pitch!
Dutch Sephardic nusach, in old recordings, for scattered parts of weekdays, Shabbat, holidays, etc. Most pages are in Dutch, but Google translates them well enough.
Some recordings of Shabbat songs and prayers, including a nice recording (with instrumental accompaniment) of the Birkat Hamazon that uses some interesting melodies at times. The site is difficult to traverse, but there are other musical resources on it: Chanukah blessings, Chanukah songs, more Chanukah songs, Purim songs, and Haggadah songs.
A fairly thorough archive of pizmonim from Syria that also explains the maqam system. It's a bit difficult to find things, however, since the Syrian nusach is so different from Ashkenaz, and Nusach Ashkenaz does not have the concept of pizmonim.
In Hebrew -- there's an English page but it has a lot less stuff, so don't use it! Some selections from the library, some of them very nice! They reside at "Compilations", and they span a variety of Jewish musical traditions. Unfortunately, not all of them work at the moment.
This is a shul (the oldest shul, in fact) in Rio de Janeiro, so the site and directions are in Portuguese. The nusach is Morrocan Sephardic, which is a different musical paradigm than what you see in Ashkenazi congregations: it's VERY repetitive nusach and no melodies. Much of the recordings are beautiful CDs for listening rather than straight nusach. By way of translation, you can find recordings of Psalms, Kabbalat Shabbat (CD), the Kedusha set to a wide variety of beautifully recorded tunes (CD), Slichot (CD), the Mishna, Megilat Esther, the Haggadah (though there is no singing that I can tell, just chanting), and weekday nusach.
Trope lessons, prayers, and some songs, including Haggadah stuff. Much of it is not so traditional and more song than nusach -- songs that repeat one line over and over and involve clapping and English, that sort of thing.
A really great resource on proper nusach, with explanations on phraseology and musicality throughout the recordings. Has nusach (chanting, not many melodies) for weekdays, Shabbat, festivals, high holidays. Even has Slichot!
A site to teach the Shabbat services. There are multiple versions of many things, interesting melodies, and it's rather thorough.
It's a blog, but the music links on top have a pretty nice variety of nusach and melodies. Very much in progress at the moment. The high holiday recordings are in very large files, though, so it's a bit hard to find what you want in them, but they're very good.
A bunch of recordings of Shabbat and weekday services. Some are quite musical.
Looks like Beth El is the First Baptist Church of Judaism: every town has two. Anyway, pretty good nusach stuff for Shabbat, including a very nice Hallel and Anim Zemirot.
Complete weekday, Shabbat, and some other stuff.
Ooh, really good stuff for high holy days. Check out their Ki Hineh Kachomer from Kol Nidrei! Keep an eye out for the bottom of the page where you specify how many results are displayed, because there's sometimes stuff that seems hidden.
In Hebrew. The English language Modzitz site may be old and have RealAudio files, but the Israeli site has all the music! The site's English section is apparently under construction, but the Hebrew section is easily navigable (especially with Google Translate). There are melodies for various zemirot and blessings, as well as many, many niggunim. Some recordings are instrumental only, some are sung with accompaniment, some are just sung.
Excellent source for Pesach, high holidays, Shabbat morning, and festivals. Big .wav files, but the nusach is really good.
Quite a few songs and prayer melodies, including bedtime melodies and Shabbat. It looks to be in the process of reconstruction, so not all of the links have been implemented yet.
Lessons on liturgical music, some of which are themselves musical and some are not, but they're not generally complete services.
A fairly complete resource for Shabbat prayers, including Kabbalat Shabbat, Maariv, Pesukei D'zimra, Shacharit, Musaf, and even Mincha. The down side is that you have to download the tracks and can't just play them in the browser. The singer's pitch is also unclear at times.
In Box format, though the mp3's can be downloaded. The Shabbat morning recordings have quite a few songs rather than nusach. There are also some songs that have English as well.
Nusach samples from Shabbat and weekday. The Flash controls don't work, but the files still (mostly) exist, I think.
mp3's for a lot of stuff for Shabbat. It's downloadable, which is nice, and it's a great resource.
Weekday nusach and high holiday recordings. The site is Flash-based and will not work with a Flash blocker. Interestingly enough, the menus at the top of the page are somewhat inconsistent, and a set of recordings for their junior congregation is difficult to find but present. That set has plenty of Shabbat, festival Amidah, and Hallel recordings as well as a large number of Torah readings, though the recordings are in alphabetical order.
Many recordings by a cantor, including Friday night, Shabbat musaf, Sheva Brachot, and some high holiday, and there is actual sourcing for many of the melodies!
Interesting melodies from an Iraqi tradition, for a variety of texts including Kol Nidrei, Shabbat piyutim, etc. In progress.
The page for a Reconstructionist shul; it has a few rather nice recordings with pretty melodies! Check out her recording of Mah Ashiv, for instance.
Go to "Worship" at the top and go to "Songs & Prayers". There are a few songs and prayers (as the title indicates), read (with no melody) and sung (with instrumental accompaniment), in streaming Quicktime format. Mostly Reform Shabbat stuff. There's also a separate Pesach section with recordings.
In somewhat mixed Hebrew and English. Contains very nice recordings of weekday and Shabbat nusach, though you have to download them; you can't listen in the browser.
A very nice set of recordings, some with multiple versions. It has Atah Hor'eta Ladaat from Simchat Torah!
Instruction on leading various blessings and services, partly aimed at teenagers (some sung fairly slowly). There are some High Holiday tracks as well, sung at regular speed.
An extensive resource for laining (whole Torah, haftarot, Megillot) as well as some nusach (uses Eastern European pronunciation). Includes chanted psalms. It's currently growing fairly quickly, too, so this ranking may be outdated! The recordings in the Tefillah section don't actually contain melodies but shiurim on the respective prayers, except the one on the Kaddish.
A nice Sephardic version of Shabbat musaf as well as some piyyutim and prayers for the high holidays. The audio is streaming, and the text is shown on the page as well for the piyyutim.
General blessings, each in its own page, so it's not easily categorized. Not all blessings have sung recordings attached, but many do, often covering more than the written text.
A series of recordings in various places on the website. At Worship-Lifecycle - Shabbat - Shabbat Prayer Recordings, there are several recordings of the prayers being read one word at a time, but some of them do go into song eventually. By the way, there are more than 10 recordings on that page, but you have to click on the number select to show them. Many don't even have actual recordings. Under Music at TBS, though, there are a LOT of great cantorial recordings (including for Shabbat), most with talking before them.
A fairly large set of recordings for a shul site, with varied things, including some nice ones with instrumental accompaniment. There's a beautiful recording of the blessing of children, for instance.
A lot of nice Chasidic niggunim, many very march-like, but it's in Real Audio format, which makes it exceedingly awkward to listen to. Many of the files don't work, either.
An Orthodox shul's recordings of various services, including Hoshanot! Also has a couple of High Holiday melodies and recordings of Yom Tov maariv and shacharit.
Several recordings of psalms, some to original melodies.
Very well-chanted recordings of the weekday maariv, Shabbat morning, and Shabbat mincha services. Includes V'hi Noam, the additions for Saturday night! There are also Pesach and High Holiday recordings under "Music".
You don't find recordings of the gabbai calls very often, but here you go, calling the first aliyah in almost every conceivable scenario! Also has the normal Shabbat morning stuff. I found that the player doesn't work, but the links link to the mp3 directly and those are fine.
All of Shabbat (excluding Pesukei D'zimrah).
A few songs from different communities and languages.
Tracks from a bar-mitzvah CD. Includes a nice Ashrei melody.
A shul with some recordings, including a nice high holiday selection.
Shabbat recordings. They're deliberately, but agonizingly, slow; however, they've got some hard-to-find stuff.
What it says on the tin. Also has trope for high holidays and chag services, but it does not cover Kol Nidrei. Very good mp3 recordings, with directions. One of my top high holiday sources.
Readings from throughout the year. Click on Categories to see them more easily. Includes special haftarot, Kohelet, blessings before Esther, etc.
In Hebrew. It's a fairly nice collection of davening and nigunim, but do please note that this is Chabad.info, a messianic group, and not the mainstream Chabad Lubavitch. Many are very low-quality recordings, which appear to be either old or recorded in a very large party, but this only adds character. The nigunim are not particularly organized, so I can't rate them easily, but there are nigunim for Shabbat, high holidays, Pesach, you name it. Some are instrumental only (Chabad Classic, for instance). Contains the entire Torah, most haftarah, Esther, and a very good high holiday section. Note that the tables are arranged right to left then top to bottom, like this:
3 2 1 6 5 4 8 7
Shabbat recordings, including Mincha and that less-used melody for the tune when the Torah is paraded around on Saturday morning before reading.
Incredibly beautiful recordings of Kabbalat Shabbat, as well as a whole bunch of songs and zemirot. Includes weekday maariv and mincha.
All of Shabbat including the Motzaei thereof. Worth a listen! Shacharit, the Torah Service, and Musaf are all in the same section, but they're shuffled for some reason; look at the page numbers to get a sense of order.
A few things from various services, including Havdalah and weekday services, but there are a lot of broken links... The setup uses frames, which makes for very awkward browsing, but to find the recordings, click on Our Synagogue --> Hazzan Sara Geller --> Friday Night Service, and scroll around. Or try this.
A bunch of Shabbat recordings, both services and zemirot, sung by upbeat groups of people who harmonize beautifully. Many recordings are listed but not linked for some reason.
Weekday and some Shabbat recordings.
The site of a Sephardic cantor with a large selection of recordings, including videos of Hoshana Rabbah. Unfortunately, much of it is in Real Audio format.
Normal Shabbat files.
The Shabbat morning service (using the shortened Pesukei D'zimra). Has Torah trope as well. There's also an alternate melody for the Kaddish Shalem at the end of musaf (which is shortened; Shacharit is full-length), which is cool.
A few Shabbat, Pesach, and Rosh Hashanah melodies, though the site is very much in progress. Pesach files are spread over a few different pages, and currently, some of the links don't work (though most do).
Tisch songs, as well as Yeshivat Reishit's beautifully harmonized high holiday tunes.
A bunch of blessings, in .ram and .mp3 formats, over bread, wine, etc.
A collection of seder melodies, zemirot, and other songs, along with transcribed sheet music, with many different melodies per song. A nice treasure trove, since most sites only have one melody for each thing.
A small but varied selection of recordings, many of artistic settings, from Adon Olam and Eli Tzion to Shalom Rav and Maoz Tzur. From what I can tell, this list is also made by the E-Hazzan and contains mostly the same things as the blog.
A few CD's of music for Shabbat, Purim, Pesach, High Holidays, and more.
Lots of normal Shabbat stuff, including some melodies omitted by the previous two, but the interface is a bit awkward.
Various Chasidic recordings and niggunim. Has an extensive section on Ana B'choach and three versions of Shoshanat Yaakov.
In construction, but it contains recordings of the entire Friday night service and the preliminary morning services for high holidays, as well as a few other things. The Friday night recording was apparently done in a long session with many people, so some of the tracks have more than what they say.
Melodies under Religious Services at both Holidays and Shabbat. Includes a Kabbalat Shabbat that's almost all Carlebach.
Beautifully harmonized melodies for Saturday morning services and niggunim for zemirot. Also has a lot of high holiday tunes.
A nice and varied collection of recordings, including including extensive festival morning nusach!
A collection of zemirot and other recordings for Shabbat at home. I think everything on it is from Aish.com, but there may be exceptions. Make sure to click "download" instead of the song title.
A bunch of prayers and Torah portions, including Shabbat Torah service and high holiday.
A recording of the Haggadah. The difference between the nusachim and speeds is JUST pronunciation and speed; "Shir HaMaalot (Fast)" and "Shir HaMaalot (Slow)", for example, are the same melody, with different speeds. Different nusach from Virtual Cantor and Siddur Audio.
A series of blog posts about liturgy, usually including musical examples (though these are usually chazzanut rather than synagogue nusach). Since it's a blog, things aren't organized by subject, so my rankings may be off. There are also numerous demo excerpts from commercial CD's rather than full tracks, and many of the older posts have broken file links.
A bunch of classes, including one by the Belz School of Music for Nusach Hatefilah. The Nusach Hatefilah class covers details of the Saturday morning service, though I don't think the third session is working.
Many blessings and songs, for Shabbat and in general. There are additional interesting melodies for many of them, with attributions! They don't follow the traditional order of the service, however, especially for Kabbalat Shabbat.
I really like going to services at this shul! The page is a bit hard to navigate, though. Shabbat recordings (for children) are under Congregational Learning. High Holiday Tunes are at the Shabbat and Prayer link (not the one that shows up in the menu), and for extra confusion, the link that does show up in the menu is Chazzan Saul Wachs's recording, which is separate. Several of the High Holiday Tunes are borrowed from other sites as well, so check those out!
Many songs from the Haggadah, including some less usual ones, and often many tunes -- five for Mah Nishtanah! Includes some things in English for young children, too. Has an extensive Hallel (no nusach, though), a melody for Vay'chi Bachatzi Halailah, four for Adir Hu, etc.
In Hebrew. Has various videos of piyutim and musical performances.
Most of the page is in Hebrew, but the part with music is also in English. It contains two PDFs of the German nusach for what seems to be the whole year (with a lot of etc.'s, though). Really cool and rather comprehensive.
Lots of stuff. The whole RH/YK thing is on here, in mp3 format. A great resource, and the cantor has wonderfully clear nusach.
The first congregation in America! It's Spanish and Portuguese, so it uses different nusach. The site has mostly a few exapmles of Torah and haftarah reading, but there are a couple of melodies (Az Yashir) as well.
A repository of mostly Ashkenazi liturgical music (I may have quoted this description from somewhere). There's a lot of old cantorial sheet music, like Sulzer's book for the whole year, Lewandowski tunes, and a few others. Really worth seeing. The recordings are concert-style rather than synagogue-style, though.
A handful of melodies for weekdays and havdalah, with copious directions (for example, for the kedushah).
Contains some rather interesting items, like recordings of the Megillot (Esther, Eicha, Shir Hashirim, some of Kohelet) with trope in English.
A few songs and prayers in a very old style (notes are difficult to hear, though). The page is in Hebrew; the headings are Shabbat, second meal of Shabbat, third meal of Shabbat, Psalms, Pesach, and Yom Kippur.
Weekday services and some .wmv's (yeah, I know) from a concert.
This is a site mostly for transliterations, but some of them have a music symbol that provides recordings.
Three flat recordings of Kabbalat Shabbat, maariv, and shacharit (only from Shochen Ad to the end of the Amidah).
Quite a few recordings of nusach for Shabbat and weekdays. If you look at the cantor's articles, you'll find a compendium of Misinai melodies as well, like the Great Aleinu, Kol Nidrei, and such.
The whole Saturday morning service, along with explanations, though this shul doesn't do a full Pesukei D'zimrah or repetition of the Amidah (or any of Musaf) and actually begins the service with Modeh Ani and Mah Tovu.
Saturday morning mp3 files, but they have some recording quality problems. There have good directions, though, which is nice.
In Hebrew. A project to preserve old Hebrew song recordings, which includes some piyutim and liturgical passages. They're organized alphabetically, though, so it's difficult to figure out liturgical coverage for particular services or holidays, but there are very, very, very many of them!
Saturday morning stuff with a nice Hasidic sound. In m4a format. Replace the filename in the URL with "mp3" to also get a a few high holiday recordings (RH Maariv and Pesukei D'zimrah, RH/YK minchah).
A cantor's recordings of wedding and Shabbat music with embellished nusach. Very nice!
A transliterated siddur, with some tunes too! It's not very easy to navigate, though, and the links don't seem to always have what they say they have.
Some Shabbat recordings and some High Holiday Torah readings.
This is Cambridge in England. They have a nice sound!
Pretty much complete services for Slichot, Rosh Hashanah Shacharit and Musaf, and Yom Kippur Maariv (Kol Nidrei), Musaf, and Neilah, as .zip files. I don't know who the page is by or anything, but it's a great resource.
It's got a bunch of shiurim, but it also has (at the bottom of the page) a set of featured High Holiday recordings.
A recording of the entire Shabbat morning service, with lots of singing in a shortened Pesukei D'zimra (and a shortened Amidah in Musaf but a complete Amidah in shacharit). There are multiple versions of some blessings. The drawbacks are that, except for Musaf, the sound is mono in the left speaker, and the service is broken up into four long files.
Recordings of Saturday morning services, with nice nusach.
Information relating to a few Jewish holidays. There are some MIDIs for Chanukah and the Haggadah, and some nicer .mp3 recordings of Purim songs.
Much of the Haggadah chanted in a very old style; this is probably not useful to someone who wants to lead a modern seder, but it's interesting nonetheless. Note that "Na'ar Hayiti" is missing in the file list.
Ironically, there's no recording of Shirat Hayam on this page. But there's some Friday night and a bit of Saturday morning stuff, mostly songs and a few prayers. Streaming mp3's.
Hey, it's my shul! It's a page that lists page numbers on different siddurim, but it also has Shabbat recordings in .wav and .mp3 formats for some stuff. In particular, it has things from the Torah service, which is hard to find (though not everything).
Kabbalat Shabbat and some high holidays. Includes some external recordings as well.
Some upbeat accompanied recordings of Shabbat melodies.
Very good (accompanied) Friday night mp3 recordings, with melodies you might not find in other sites.
Simchat Torah songs! Many of them! The Sheva Brachot are here, too.
Tracks from a bar-mitzvah CD. Includes a nice Ashrei melody.
Some MIDI files of various songs and prayers.
Tunes for a Carlebach Shabbat (Kabbalat Shabbat and maariv), though not every single paragraph.
A blog post with a great many links to Pesach niggunim, most sadly broken.
Some Friday night recordings. On the left side, go to Resources then Passionate Davening, or try this and see if the link works.
A recording of a seder, with piano accompaniment. There are some very pretty English songs and many English readings in addition to the standard Hebrew tunes.
Beautiful choral recordings (and sheet music) of a Slichot service by a British choir. There are also recordings of Sefirah services.
A sizeable collection of Sephardic liturgical songs, mostly arranged for four-part choir. I don't know what language the page is in, though.
Beautiful choral recordings of pieces from the Saturday morning and high holiday services, but it may take some trickery to play them. It appears that the Javascript isn't well-formed for all of the links, but you can right-click the track name, click Copy Link Address, paste that into your address bar, and delete the parts before http and after .mp3. They're really nice, so it's worth the trouble!
An extensive collection of music, though much of it consists of demo samples and broken links rather than full tracks. Much of it is more appropriate for perfomance than shul. The sister site Tot Shabbat has music for children, but unfortunately is it written in Comic Sans. The vast majority of the files are incomplete, Real Audio, or broken, so there's not much point to going through it, but there are a few things in either site worth checking out.
Some spoken recordings and aliyah blessings, as well as the entire weekday mincah and maariv services. Includes two different nusachim for maariv.
Some sheet music for Shabbat (and Avinu Malkeinu).
A few Shabbat melodies, but the links don't work right now. There's also a page of seder melodies, and those are all good, even if the singing is a bit rough around the edges. "Friday Night Jam" has sheet music for Ana B'choach and Tzadik Katamar.
In Hebrew. There are examples from the choir's repertoire, neatly separated by service, but there are recordings available (.wma) only for few of the pieces.
All of Ashrei, beginning of weekday Amidah, beginning part of Torah service
A very nice set of recordings for Kabbalat Shabbat, several with multiple different tunes. Sadly, Or Chadash's home page appears to have been hacked, and this is all that's left of it. Still, it's a great resource.
Rabbi David Paskin's site; it includes a rock Kabbalat Shabbat and maariv under "Unplug"!
A handful of recordings with basic Torah/haftarah trope, a couple of songs, and a few blessings.
Some Reform-style melodies for Kabbalat Shabbat. Includes blessings before and after an aliyah on the bar-mitzvah page.
Just a handful of songs (some with English) and prayers.
Torah and haftarah trope.
A few beautiful melodies, most original, with accompaniment (including piano, choral, etc.). Includes L'chah Dodi, Etz Chayim, B'rosh Hashanah, Hu Eloheinu, M'chalkel Chayim (for High Holidays), Yismach Moshe, Ribono Shel Olam (from taking out the Torah).
A recording for Shabbat maariv, using some interesting nusach choices like minor for Avot.
A recording of the basic weekday maariv service.
A few downloadable .mp3's; includes three different versions of Shalom Aleichem, as well as sheet music for some Haggadah songs (and .mp3's generated by the music software, not sung)
A very cool vinyl recording of Shabbat, and while there's a lot of English to wade through, it's really, really pretty when they do finally sing in Hebrew. Candlelighting Service contains the blessing for candles; Call to Prayer contains Barchu; Psalm 23 is all English (and sadly cuts off); The Faith of Israel contains the Shema (and also sadly cuts off); Kiddush contains the kiddush.
Some videos of High Holiday services. Not all that interesting, honestly.
Some Yom Kippur melodies that are mostly hosted on other sites, especially Congregation Beth Sholom of Tea Neck.
In French. There's a bunch of information about cantors, some with RealAudio clips that I can't get to work. At the bottom, though, is sheet music for the French trope, which is cool.
A file at an mp3 hosting site. It looks like selections from Rosh Hashanah Musaf, with talking in Hebrew. It contains Hineni, Kaddish, El Emunah, Melech Elyon (first two stanzas, last few), and Un'taneh Tokef and the following paragraph.
A small collection of melodies, including Yom Kippur, but they mostly link to other places (including YouTube videos).
Some scholarly articles about synagogue music, with notated examples.
A few professional recordings of cantorial settings. I'm not sure how much longer this will be around, seeing as Lord Sacks is on his way out as Chief Rabbi in the UK.
A few examples of Kabbalat Shabbat nusach as well as a few melodies for L'chah Dodi.
Just a YouTube video of Al Hamichya.
A handful of High Holiday recordings (in Box hosting) in a nice old style.
Some recordings (five songs) of Cardiff Synagogue's choir, with instrumental accompaniment. Includes Shir Hamaalot sung to the tune of Scarborough Fair, which is kinda cool.
31 different MIDIs of Adon Olam. The page hasn't been updated since 2001 and it really looks it, but if you can get your computer to play them, hey, why not?
A couple of audio classes on niggunim.
A blog that never really got off the ground, but its one post does have a few links to Youtube videos of melodies that can be used for El Adon.
A few nice recordings (that need to be downloaded) of Pesach tunes. Includes Miriam Han'viah along with Eliyahu Hanavi.
In Portuguese. Some .mp3's and videos of Leonardo Gonçalves singing Pesach tunes beautifully.
In the 2002 CD Nigun Atik, there is a piece of jazz based on the hakafot of Simchat Torah. It is pretty though not specifically synagogue nusach, but it's also, sadly, the only recording of the hakafot I've yet come across.
It's a live video of a Simchat Torah service, but it's *quite* Reform, so it's not very full of nusach.
If you look around, there are recordings of prayers (in RealAudio format -- why was this ever popular?). However, the site organization is perhaps not the strongest... Towards the bottom you'll see some links. It includes Cantor Pinchas Rabinowitz chanting Shabbat melodies, and which is pretty great.
The site was apparently hacked recently; they had archives up in some format but now it appears to be a parked domain.
Just one recording of Yedid Nefesh, but it looks like they mean to expand the section someday.
A few Yom Kippur melodies, though none of the links work at the moment.
Different traditions' recordings of Kol Nidrei, in Real Audio format. Or so it says. I couldn't get them to work.
In Hebrew. Worse, in Flash, so Google Translate doesn't work on it. There are some recordings under "folklore", but they're in .wma and Real Audio formats, and they don't seem to be liturgical.
At some point I must have found some recordings here, but I can't find them now. The page is all in Hebrew, and I feel like I'm getting 404's, but I can't tell.