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 gray boxes 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 working on a larger project, NusachDB, to collect the melodies themselves. 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, 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!
Click "Catalogued recordings" to see which recordings or sheet music in a particular site have been added to NusachDB. For the foreseeable future, these do not represent the totality of recordings for most sites, but the lists will get more complete with time.
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.
In Italian. Huge archive of Italian recordings, including Italian laining, Italian nusach, and classes. There's a lot more there than I've been able to properly categorize, especially without an Italian siddur, so the notes below are (and will probably always be) incomplete.
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!
This is a project by Faraj Samra to preserve and present Sephardic chazanut (the title probably gave that away, didn't it?). It's actively growing and receiving regular updates, so this information may soon be out of date. It contains Torah, haftarah, and Tehilim readings, and a very large chunk of the siddur (including melodies sometimes).
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 huge and fairly comprehensive collection of German-tradition nusach recordings by a Marcel Lang. There's nusach for everything, and sometimes even several different versions. This site is superlatively good for Friday night recordings and has several unique tracks like the Purim Kiddush!
In Hebrew (the English version is the legacy site, Invitation to Piyut, which is no longer maintained). Absolutely wonderful collection of piyutim (and regular blessings and psalms too, if you look hard enough) from all over the world, run by the National Library of Israel. It's massive, constantly updated, and it takes submissions if you want to send in your own recordings that they don't yet have. It's the successor site to Invitation to Piyut and Shitufiyut, containing (most of) the recordings from both.
In Hebrew (the English version has the same stuff, but not everything has been translated). Absolutely wonderful collection of piyutim (and regular blessings and psalms too, if you look hard enough) from all over the world. It's no longer updated, with the new site being Atar Hapiyut V'hat'filah. The old content uses Flash, so it might be, well, very difficult to get to it right now.
In Hebrew. This is the remake of Invitation to Piyut and Shituf Piyut. It's more difficult to navigate but has more stuff, and it includes most of the old stuff as well (but not all, for legal reasons).
In Hebrew. It's a site where users can upload their own recordings of piyutim and make their own piyut-centered pages. There's a ton of stuff on here, in various traditions (emphasis on Moroccan and Yemenite, but there's Ashkenazi as well), with a LOT of non-piyut recordings as well; it's affiliated with Invitation to Piyut, so you know it's good. However, unlike its relative, browsing for anything is an absolute nightmare, since within each occasion, they're ordered by *date*. However, there's much more than just piyutim -- there's laining and tefilah as well, but you have to dig. There's a Google-powered search engine too, which helps.
A surprisingly large collection of audio classes, including model complete seders, songs (including actually teaching the 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. There are also many videos of classes which include songs and nusach at the main site.
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.
A cantor's website with a nice full section of recordings. Most of them are under Ritual Resources, especially under Services, but a few are under Music instead, including motif samples from High Holidays and scanned wedding music. Under Ritual Resources -> Torah -> Special, you can also find the Megilot, including Kohelet.
The first congregation in America! It's in the Spanish and Portuguese tradition, and it contains a wealth of recordings, including a complete Shabbat morning service, complete weekday services, complete parshiyot, and much more.
Also a great site with quite a bit, from the Conservative tradition. 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.
Shiurim and music of Breslov chasidim. In Hebrew. Like other Chasidish sites, it also contains quite a few instrumental tracks, and the audio quality varies for older recordings. Loading times can be very slow! The Breslov chasidim use the Chasidish Nusach Sefard.
A whole bunch of Sephardic recordings. If it's similar to the Liturgical Music of Shaar Hashamayim website, it's because it's made by the same person! The content is different, though, and there's a lot more detail in some of the pages, including texts of prayers and piyutim. Jewish Table Singing is a sister site and features many of the same recordings.
Dutch Sephardic nusach, in old recordings, for large parts of weekdays, Shabbat, holidays, etc. You can also listen to an enormous treasure trove of old nusach tapes (instructions mostly in Dutch) as well as find sheet music for a variety of pieces of liturgy.
A messianic congregation's collection of recorded liturgy. It's a pretty good collection! It actually includes Al Hanisim for Purim in the Birkat Hamazon, as well as stuff for Shabbat, weddings, Pesach, and much more.
A site with audio of shiurim -- and a whole lot of nusach!
Rabbi Menashe Goldberger: Under Jewish Prayer, you can find pretty much complete weekday shacharit, shabbat Kabbalat Shabbat/maariv/shacharit/musaf/minchah, and festival maariv/shacharit/Hallel/musaf. There's Shabbat Rosh Chodesh musaf AND weekday Rosh Chodesh musaf. The Birkat Achrona tracks are only spoken. Some of the services here have unlabeled tracks, but it's easy to find stuff anyway. There are also Haggadah songs and Chanukah blessings.
Rabbi Moshe Hiller: Complete Esther and haftarah blessings.
Rabbi Jeremy Wieder: Leining for most of the year, including the entire Torah, Ruth, Esther, and Eichah.
Zohar Killian: Some recordings of the Camp Kesher song, V'zot Habrachah, and Chanukah blessings.
Very extensive and very specific recordings of a lot of things, in Netherlands and Ashkenazi traditions. Really, really cool.
In Hebrew. This is an institute for the preservation of the traditions of Libyan Jews, and there are TONS of recordings WITH text! Oh, and they're all neatly organized from the side menu.
A bunch of really good instructional recordings for various services, including Shabbat minchah and the wedding Birkat Hamazon, as well as trope for Torah, haftarah, High Holidays, and Purim, Slichot, Shabbat maariv, shacharit, and P'sukei D'zimrah, the Kol Nidrei paragraph, Rosh Chodesh musaf, and festival kiddush. It's easy to miss the link at the bottom that says "Older Entries" -- there you'll find two versions of Hallel, more P'sukei D'zimrah, and weekday minchah.
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!
In Hebrew. A site with Moroccan videos and such. Most are on YouTube, but it's fairly extensive. There are bakashot, Shabbat piyutim, etc.
A very thorough resource of beautiful Moroccan nusach recordings, including Tehilim, Esther, a lot of High Holiday and Slichot, complete Shabbat services, the Haggadah, Ruth, Azharot, Kohelet, Eichah (check the bar right above the navigation sidebar), and much of Tish'ah B'av (some kinot are missing). It's absolutely great, except that things are completely unlabeled!
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 very thorough archive of pizmonim from Syria that also explains the maqam system, featuring the standard book of Syrian pizmonim and several auxiliary books, with integrated recordings and even videos.
An Orthodox congregation, with plenty of great nusach recordings and audio classes. Other recordings are in the pages under Resources, including some beautifully harmonized recordings for Shabbat.
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.
A cantor's website with some excellent instructional recordings as well as plenty of concert and record tracks of chazanut and other music.
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 repetitive nusach with few 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.
In French. They sell CD's, but they also have videos and recordings, neatly categorized, including recordings and videos mostly from the Syrian and Tunisian traditions, often with the text as well. Recordings and videos range from traditional to accompanied and produced.
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 lot of nusach recordings by Ezra Lubelsky. They're very well-done. You will find complete Friday night services, shacharit, musaf, and minchah, Hallel, Rosh Hashanah maariv, shacharit, and musaf, complete services for Yom Kippur, Esther, and it looks like they're adding more.
A site to teach the Shabbat services. There are multiple versions of many things, interesting melodies, and it's rather thorough.
In Hebrew -- the versions of the page in Spanish and in English are still under construction and do not have all of the features of the Hebrew. This site contains extensive recordings and teachings of the Damascus Sephardic tradition, and there are actually quite a few of them. However, the interface is diffcult to use.
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 RIDICULOUS Mediafire archive of chazzanut. RIDICULOUS. Great cantors, old recordings, many live and of low quality but still, and it's enormous. MANY recordings of Slichot -- more than you'd think exist! Shabbat, holidays, weekdays, you got it. Seriously cool stuff. It is chazzanut, though, mostly in the Golden Age style.
A Reform synagogue with trope lessons, prayers, and some songs, including Haggadah stuff. Much of it is more song than nusach with simple songs that may even involve clapping and English.
A Conservative synagogue with pretty good nusach stuff for Shabbat, including a very nice Hallel and Anim Zemirot. Some of the more generally named files, like Kabbalat Shabbat – Maariv and Birkot Hashachar, are actually complete services.
A collection of videos of the instructor chanting a lot of nusach (using nusach Sfard), including Shabbat, High Holidays, and even Simchat Torah. There are many interesting tunes throughout the videos! The Nigunim section contains only samples of tracks, though.
An educational egalitarian institution that focuses on community building, and this used to include audio resources for leading services. There were recordings for weekdays, Shabbat, high holidays (including a great Ki Hineh Kachomer), etc., and they're still available under Archive. Now... it's an ambitious experience: a categorized collection of submitted recordings for the various parts of the various services. It's growing quickly and is already an extremely helpful resource. You can even search for melodies by tempo, time signature, or mode!
A shul's website with a fairly inclusive collection, including Shabbat, nearly the entire weekday services, trope for everything, many, many Torah readings, and more.
Quite an extensive set of recordings! Most are congregational melodies, but there's stuff here for Shabbat, weekdays, and high holidays, as well as haggadah tunes.
A bunch of recordings of Shabbat and weekday services. Some are quite musical.
Complete weekday, Shabbat, and some other stuff.
In French. A Tunisian synagogue in Paris, with quite a few recordings! I'm not sure why, but under Hazanoute, there are several recordings of the Kaddish and even more of the Kedushah, and they include Shabbat evening and morning. There are also a number of miscellaneous recordings, including piyutim, Sheva Brachot, havdalah, Shabbat morning, Brit Milah tunes, etc. Under Haguimes (Fêtes), aside from Torah and haftarah readings, there's Esther, the Haggadah in several recordings (including in Judeo-Arabic), Ruth, Eichah, and Slichot. Under Autres passages, there's Shir Hashirim, more Haggadah recordings, and a few other things like haftarah blessings and the Shema.
An Egyptian synagogue in New York. There are many recordings and videos here. Many. There are several years' worth of Seder Tawhid, an Egyptian Jewish celebration on Rosh Chodesh Nisan. Three years of Slichot plus selections from a fourth. Several High Holiday tunes. Several kinot. Havdalah in a whole bunch of different maqamat. Torah and haftarah trope according to the Egyptian minhag. All of Esther. Under R' Yosef Hamaoui Media there are even more recordings, including all of Psalms and a wedding service.
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.
A cantor's website with some recordings, including some beautiful lullabies. There are links to YouTube videos under Shabbat in the Round and some recordings under Shaharit Live, but go under Skills and there are tons of files! Many songs as well as simple nusach.
In Portuguese. This was actually my father's synagogue when he was a child, catering to Egyptian Jews and later Syrian Jews, according to my father. It has extensive (nearly complete) recordings for weekdays and Shabbat, with the text and Portuguese translation, and the highlighting of the text follows along with the recordings. This includes shacharit/minchah/arvit for weekdays and Kabbalat Shabbat/arvit/kiddush/shacharit/musaf/minchah for Shabbat. Some of the recordings are from the Sephardic Hazzanut Project. This is a wonderful project of chazanut. In addition there is chanting for complete Tehilim as well.
A Conservative synagogue with mp3's for a lot of stuff for Shabbat (and weekday maariv too). It's downloadable, which is nice, and it's a great resource.
A synagogue website with an extensive set of nusach recordings. There's a complete Kabbalat Shabbat with multiple melodies per text, a complete Shabbat maariv with multiple melodies per text as well, a complete Shabbat shacharit (from Nishmat), Hallel, Shabbat Torah service, Shabbat musaf, weekday shacharit (up to kedusha), and weekday maariv. There's also trope for haftarah, Torah, High Holiday, and Esther.
Very well-chanted recordings of the weekday maariv and shacharit, 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". Temple Emanuel used to have an old site with Shabbat morning recordings as well. Those recordings are still available there, though the rest of the site no longer exists.
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.
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.
Quite a few recordings of the Constantine nusach (Sephardic), including Torah reading, Hallel, the Haggadah, and various other songs and blessings.
Nusach samples from Shabbat and weekday. The Flash controls don't work, but the files still (mostly) exist, I think.
Some complete recordings of services in SoundCloud format. Includes Kabbalat Shabbat, maariv, the Torah Service, some of Musaf, mincha (sans repetition), Havdalah, Birkat Hamazon, etc.
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!
A nice and rather extensive synagogue resource, including Haggadah nusach, a big set of Youtube videos, other Shabbat sound files, trope, and bentsching.
A site dedicated to the memory of Ronny Horvitz and his melodies from Frankfurt. Contains taamim for Torah and haftarah, some Esther,
Interesting melodies from an Iraqi tradition, for a variety of texts including Kol Nidrei, Shabbat piyutim, etc.
A set of recordings including quite a bit from the seder. The recordings are on different pages under "Worship", including under Junior Congregation.
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.
A Reform synagogue. 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.
NOTE: The old site, with the recordings, is still here.
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 run-down of which nusach to use in each part of the weekday services is also available, with short samples, under נוסח התפילה.
A wealth of Spanish and Portuguese melodies (and some chazanut), including parts of Hallel, S'lichot, festival liturgy, Shabbat, and a whole bunch of stuff, along with a bit of info on each melody.
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. Other pages with recordings (not hosted locally) are here, with posts marked "music".
There are several Carlebach CD's available for purchase, but you can listen to the individual tracks on the site. These are great melodies, but as is usually Reb Carlebach's style, the words are usually just a line or two from the liturgy.
An independent congregation with a fairly extensive audio library.
The Jewish Community of Japan caters mostly to American expats -- the website and recordings are all in English, and the rabbi is American -- but it's there and they have a website! Most of the links here are YouTube, but if you go to Services -> Sing With Us and choose the submenu options, you'll find a complete Shabbat maariv (no Kabbalat Shabbat), a few from Shabbat morning, and even some Shabbat mincha.
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.
A very nice set of recordings, some with multiple versions. It has Atah Hor'eta Ladaat from Simchat Torah!
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.
A Reform and Conservative synagogue with an extensive audio section. Includes nearly all of the Shabbat morning service excluding musaf, including the Etz Chayim Hi for Hagbahah, sung after the Torah is raised. There's a Hallel and havdalah as well. The Friday Evening section is not as extensive, but most of the tracks are from a CD with beautiful guitar and violin accompaniment. The High Holiday section has some stuff too, including a kiddush for Rosh Hashanah.
Various recordings from a Reconstructionist congregation. Note that the Reconstructionist text can vary from the original at times. Includes Torah blessings (with text) elsewhere on the site, and includes trope as well.
In Spanish. Includes a very nice collection of Shabbat table tunes, including Bendigamos, kiddush, and several zemirot. Some of the recordings have harmony and guitar. There are also accompanied Shabbat recordings from services including minchah.
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.
An egalitarian minyan. There are a good number of Shabbat files and high holiday recordings.
Many recordings of table songs from various traditions, and not just for Shabbat! Some are piyutim also sung at other occasions (Adon Olam, Ein Keloheinu, Yigdal). It's a sister site to London Sephardi Music.
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.
In French. It's in Flash, so wait for it to load; you can listen to the entire Torah and haftarah chanted. If the interface is a bit wonky, don't worry, "telecharger" means "download". On the right side are recordings of other things, like Esther, Tehilim (including an instructional pdf on Taamei Emet, in French), Shir Hashirim, a Haggadah full of ululation (the Haggadah stops about halfway and then the songs start, including an Arabic Chad Gadya), some Slichot, and taamei hamikra.
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.
A few songs from different communities and languages.
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.
A synagogue's site with a whole bunch of files. Unfortunately, they're .wma's, so it takes some hacking to get them to play on my Mac! Highlights include a great Kabbalat Shabbat service, a fairly complete Shabbat morning service from Shochen Ad, weekday afternoon (weekday evening is broken), and trope for many things.
Tracks from a bar-mitzvah CD. Includes a nice Ashrei melody.
A shul with some recordings, including a nice high holiday selection.
A Conservative synagogue. There are a few things from various Shabbat services, as well as Havdalah and weekday maariv.
Shabbat recordings. They're deliberately, but agonizingly, slow; however, they've got some hard-to-find stuff.
A synagogue with recordings for a quite complete Shabbat morning service, several tunes for High Holidays including a complete Birkot Hashachar and P'sukei D'zimrah, and Sheva Brachot.
Includes trope, obviously! It's a bunch of recordings for bnei mitzvah, including Torah and haftarah trope as well as selections from maariv, musaf, and the Torah service. The catch: Chrome at least makes you download the recordings instead of playing them in the browser. The site has a part 2.
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.
A Conservative synagogue that sadly no longer exists, but there are still some audio files up, with much of Shabbat (excluding Pesukei D'zimrah).
NOTE: Sorry. The site is no longer there. Gone. But the Wayback Machine has stored it, along with the files on it, here!
In Hebrew. This is a big Judaism site that also has a bunch of recordings. Many are actually samples from Harav Levi Sudri, in the Moroccan tradition, but there are some weekday shacharit recordings as well in both Sephardic and Ashkenazic nusach. There's some sheet music as well; in particular, you can find [sheet music for z'mirot](http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/shabat/zmirot/tohen-2.htm) at some of these pages.
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
A handful of melodies for weekdays and havdalah, with copious directions (for example, for the kedushah).
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. There are recordings of the High Holiday Torah readings here.
Shabbat recordings, including Mincha and that less-used melody for the tune when the Torah is paraded around on Saturday morning before reading.
A liberal synagogue with various very nice Shabbat recordings, including minchah, and elsewhere on the site there's an album from their regional interfaith Unity Choir.
In Hebrew. An Israeli synagogue with a bunch of recordings (Ashkenazi melodies, including Carlebach). These include Shabbat evening and morning, birkat hachodesh, Geshem, several selections from Shalosh Regalim and High Holidays, and even a kinah from Tish'ah B'av.
Incredibly beautiful recordings of Kabbalat Shabbat, as well as a whole bunch of songs and zemirot. Includes weekday maariv and mincha.
A Karaite congregation with quite a few audio files of prayers and songs from the Egyptian Karaite tradition, including Shabbat, havdalah, kiddush, slichot, Esther, etc.
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.
A Reconstructionist shul's website. Some high holiday Torah readings and a very, very nice collection of Shabbat tracks, including a bunch of songs at the start.
An Edot Hamizrach synagogue in Har Tziyon near David's tomb; features videos of chazanut from Purim, Rosh Hashanah, and Bakashot.
A bunch of nice recordings (that need to be downloaded) of Pesach tunes, Shirat Hayam, Chanukah blessings, Shabbat, and more. Some have beautiful piano accompaniment!
A Modern Orthodox shul's with a whole bunch of recordings of Shabbat and holidays.
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 Conservative synagogue with audio for several blessings, including Birkat Hamazon, kiddush for Shabbat evening and morning, chag, and High Holidays, havdalah, aliyah blessings, and Chanukah candlelighting.
A rabbi and his family have put up three wonderful albums of Shabbat table songs, Sheva Brachot table songs, and year-round songs.
A synagogue's site with a bunch of audio files primarily for students of their religious school. In particular, the recordings for 4th and 5th graders are from a student collection called Hineni; I don't know exactly what is in them but they include liturgy like the Avot from the Shabbat morning amidah. Otherwise, there are recordings from Shabbat and weekdays, as well as a Birkat Hamazon with some less common tunes.
In French. A Spanish and Portuguese synagogue in Paris. It takes a very long time to load, unfortunately -- the files are large -- but they're there. There's Friday night, Saturday morning, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Shabbat Chatan, and the haftarah for Simchat Torah. They're accompanied by organ and feature a children's chorus.
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).
In Hebrew. A website about Yemenite traditions. There are videos about how to read Torah and haftarah in the Yemenite way, for example, but the bulk of the recordings are here, organized by date. There you'll find, among other things, a Yemenite Birkat Hamazon.
Various Chasidic recordings and niggunim. Has an extensive section on Ana B'choach and three versions of Shoshanat Yaakov.
A good bunch of recordings, but it's not in order! Most is in nusach, but there are some melodies too.
A Reform/Reconstructionist synagogue (it's affiliated with both) with a long list of audio files, mostly for Shabbat but also a bit for High Holidays. They're in .wma format, though.
A few digitized music collections from the JTS library. It includes field recordings of laining (examples from most books of the Tanach, at least) from 1936-8 Israel, which are naturally very scratchy and whose titles are in Hebrew, some music from Cochin, India, and Jewish art music manuscripts. The interface, I should warn, is horrendous, as sadly befits a library website.
The kids section of the Chabad website, which has several songs for holidays and other occasions, as well as original children's songs about the Torah and other Jewish themes.
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, but the audio controls are very fussy.
Tisch songs, as well as Yeshivat Reishit's beautifully harmonized high holiday tunes.
In French. A Sephardic (Tunisian and Moroccan) synagogue in Paris that includes, among other things, a course on chazanut and piyutim, with a website containing quite a few recordings in Tunisian, Egyptian, and Yerushalmi traditions. There are a lot of bakashot, some Haggadah recordings, and a few other items.
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 morning stuff, including some melodies omitted by the previous two, but the interface is a bit awkward.
In French. It has recordings of the Portuguese rite, some with choir, at Manuel d'étude. It's got quite a bit, including taamim for prose and poetry, Eicha, Geshem, L'chah Dodi, etc. There's more in the Ceremonie de la Bar Mitzwa. The first track even has a pronunciation guide for the French rite (nasal ע, for instance).
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.
A shul's website with tunes for Shabbat. Several have alternate melodies! Be sure to note at the bottom where it links to other pages within the website with melodies for Friday night home rituals.
Melodies under Religious Services at both Holidays and Shabbat. Includes a Kabbalat Shabbat that's almost all Carlebach.
15 albums' worth of Regesh music, featuring melodies by Rav Shmuel Brazil, which includes plenty of liturgical tunes and z'mirot and such. Very Flash-based. There's also another section with R. Brazil's niggunim under More Extras.
Recordings, mostly a cappella, from Camp Ramah in California. These are really cool. There are Shabbat songs, general songs, havdalah, etc. There are 6 CDs in total that you can listen to right on the site.
A large liberal New York synagogue. The links on the sidebar include a recording of a seder, with piano accompaniment, where there are some very pretty English songs and many English readings in addition to the standard Hebrew tunes. There are also Chanukah blessings, Shabbat blessings (audio under Life Cycles->Bar and Bat Mitzvah, as well as under Wosrhip->Music at Emanu-El), and more.
A bunch of Chasidic niggunim as well as various classes on various subjects. The recordings are in Real Audio format, and at least for me, my browser says the plugin did not load but the files open in my external Real Audio program.
Beautifully harmonized melodies for Saturday morning services and niggunim for z'mirot. Also has a lot of high holiday tunes.
A shul's website with some old-time chazzanut/choral recordings under both tabs, including one by Ganchoff and Lewandowski's Uv'nucho Yomar. Includes several High Holiday selections. The same temple also runs cybermitzvah.org, with standard Shabbat audio files for a bar- or bat-mitzvah, though many are spoken.
An egalitarian minyan, associated with Mechon Hadar. The website contains Saturday morning mp3 files with good directions, which is very nice, as well as the (free) digital download for the Pri Eitz Hadar CD, full of great harmonized melodies. There are also High Holiday pages each year, but they're a bit hard to find; here's the one for 2016.
A Conservative synagogue with recordings of Friday night, Haggadah, Chanukah, and Purim melodies, as well as several melodies for Sim Shalom.
Several cantorial recordings by cantors from Maine. Includes some classical chazanut from the 40's and 60's as well as more modern cantorial recordings.
A nice and varied collection of recordings, including including extensive festival morning nusach!
A Reform synagogue with some very beautifully done recordings, with instrumental accompaniment. Their primary set of recordings (Congregational Music) is a bit ambiguous as to service, with chanted Avot v'Imahot and G'vurot, but then it continues with a chanted Atah Kadosh, apparently a substitute for the silent Amidah. There are some beautiful tunes there, though with a Reform flavor certainly. The B'nei Mitzvah Prayers is a set of recordings for b'nei mitzvah; it must be downloaded as a zip, but it's got a bunch of stuff (without accompaniment).
Fairly complete weekday recordings, including a Chasidic minchah, which even includes Al Hanisim for Chanukah and Purim, and additions for the Ten Days of Repentance. There's also a good collection of High Holiday recordings and videos with text.
In French. A website with information about observances of Francophone Jews; it includes a few recordings and videos under their respective holidays and under Radio Tv.
A Conservative synagogue with a nearly complete Friday night service as well as some of Birkot Hashachar, some of P'sukei D'zimrah, and quit a bit of shacharit for Shabbat. The recordings are often subdivided verse by verse. There's Birkat Hamazon as well.
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 site to collect liturgical tunes -- a worthy goal, if I may say so myself! Each of the pages on the right has some recordings, but our communities has a complete Shabbat morning service with good nusach and tunes.
A synagogue website with a whole bunch of Shabbat recordings, as well as a weekday Amidah.
A Conservative synagogue; there are recordings for various blessings as well as haggadah tunes and a full weekady maariv.
A partnership Orthodox synagogue in Israel with a few audio files, including Hallel, P'sukei D'zimrah for Shabbat, the Torah service, and Ruth, Esther, Kohelet, and Shir Hashirim.
In Portuguese. Features a bunch of Brazilian Chabad recordings, including Chanukah, z'mirot, etc.
A minyan's website with a whole bunch of melodies on Google Drive. There are Friday night melodies, a complete Shabbat musaf service, and scanned pages of musaf from Zamru Lo: The Next Generation. There are also several High Holiday recordings.
Texts and recordings of pretty much everything one might need for one's own Shabbat celebration, including kiddush, zemirot, etc. Recipes too!
A bunch of prayers and Torah portions, including Shabbat Torah service and high holiday. NOTE: the link seems to be broken at the moment.
A site that looks stuck in the 90's (though it's not like my site is any better). It has MIDI files for some things, some .mp3 files, and some .mp3 samples, along with links to purchase the files on iTunes or Rhapsody (so it isn't actuallystuck in the 90's).
In French. You have to dig a bit, but there's some interesting stuff! Much of it is recordings from other places, like Shira Hadasha, but there are original recordings as well. Several recordings of the Shema under Rite quotidien, Friday night and Saturday day kiddush (with an interesting non-Lewandowski melody for Friday night) under Rites domestiques, several versions of several parts of Kabbalat Shabbat, including a whole lot of L'chah Dodi tunes, 10 versions of Tzur Mishelo under Chants du Shabbat; under Shabbat matin, haftarah blessings, kedusha, Ps. 150, and Shirat Hayam; and a whole bunch of High Holiday and Slichot recordings (including a whole Slichot service).
A synagogue website with a bunch of Shabbat recordings.
An Orthodox synagogue with a few, sadly, quite outdated recordings of (complete) S'lichot, Hoshana Rabah, and Chanukah; there's even a musical havdalah with Neshama Carlebach. The plugins no longer work in modern browsers, but the .wma files are still there and can be downloaded.
A site for Sephardic chazzanut. It contains many links to off-site tracks, but it hosts many as well; there's a pretty good library here! There are more recordings under From the Esnoga, but that part of the site is in Dutch and contains only snippets.
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.
A few Sephardic recordings by Cantor Hezkia Eliezer "Kiki" Arochas, including Kiddush, some Tehilim (Shirei Hamaalot), all of weekday Shacharit, and more.
Some beautiful accompanied recordings of mostly piyutim with melodies from around the world. It's the same collection as from Bnai Jeshurun and at Invitation to Piyut North America
In French. A site of shiurim that also includes some recordings of nusach (Sephardic). Some are under Chabbath -> Chants du Chabbath (includes many zemirot and other piyutim), a few are under La Prière (most of the pages there are empty, though), and a few are under Les fêtes juives -> Pessa'h. Not all of the recording links work, unfortunately.
In Hebrew. A band that performs Jewish music, with extensive samples on the page.
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!
This is a site that sells sheet music, but there's some available for free as well, most notably some Rosenblatt recitatives.
Traditional egalitarian shul in Pennsylvania with well-sung Shabbat recordings, some of them accompanied on piano.
Tunes for a Carlebach Shabbat (Kabbalat Shabbat and maariv), though not every single paragraph. Also contains a large set of High Holiday congregational melodies.
A Conservative synagogue with some varied Shabbat recordings. There's a complete Kabbalat Shabbat, some Shabbat morning tracks including two melodies for Ps. 136 and a Moroccan El Adon, an Algerian melody for Yayin Tov (bakashah and piyut for Shavuot and Simchat Torah), and seder melodies as well. This link contains all the melodies; the other links on the sidebar each contains a subset.
A Conservative synagogue with a bunch of blessings, in .ram and .mp3 formats, over bread, wine, etc. Mostly spoken, not chanted.
Sephardic recordings of some prayers, with a focus on High Holidays, and the entire Torah recited.
Hey, it's my non-denominational 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).
A bunch of recordings of Haggadah songs exists here.
NOTE: The old site, with the recordings, is still here.
A Reform synagogue with several recordings, often along with the text.
A shul's website with some Shabbat recordings for Friday night and Saturday morning. Includes an interesting V'shamru melody.
The gold standard in trope websites, as far as I'm concerned. There's Torah, haftarah, high holiday, Eicha, Esther, and Shalosh Regalim (Shir Hashirim, Ruth, Kohelet) trope, and with musical notation to make it even easier.
Many songs from the Haggadah, including some less usual ones, and often many tunes -- four 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.
A temple's website with some fairly nice bar mitzvah recordings. They're in alphabetical order, sadly, but things are easy to find. The melodies are often different from the ones heard elsewhere.
It's a bunch of files on a server, but there's a lot here! All of Ruth, a complete Shabbat shacharit, including t'amim, a bunch of Shabbat morning blessings and piyutim under For Alex including the Torah service, Ein Keloheinu, Aleinu, etc., the nisim b'chol yom under Individual Blessings, more various Shabbat morning recordings under Junior Congregation Shabbat, (most of) Esther, Ein Keloheinu and the shofar for Rosh Hashanah, and some Torah readings and t'amim. Most, if not all, of this is also at the Shearith Israel site.
This is a personal website straight from the 90's with RealAudio of actually a big collection of Sephardic music. It was hosted on GeoCities, but it has been saved by ReoCities, and as far as I can tell, all the subpages (except All Occasions) and .ra files work, but it might take some doing to get them to actually play -- for me, RealPlayer wasn't doing it, but MPlayer was -- and the sound quality is extremely low. There are a few MIDIs as well.
A few piyutim from various traditions, with a focus on the Near and Middle East.
In Hebrew. Has various videos of piyutim and musical performances.
In French. A very interesting site about Tunisian Jewry that occasionally has some old recordings, like at the Pesach page from 2014. Unfortunately, finding recordings on the site is exceptionally difficult, but there are some! Note that they recently started using a new layout, but the older pages are still in the old layout; if a link takes you to a page straight out of the 90's, that's OK!
A personal blog with YouTube videos of divrei Torah, haftarot, and some singing, which as of this writing includes the Ashkenazic Shir Hamaalot (Ps. 126) and Eshet Chayil, Moroccan havdalah and Shir Hashirim.
This is the website of the Karaite Jews of America, which is a group of Jews that follows a very different tradition from Rabbinical Jews. This particular Karaite community uses an Egyptian nusach. There are some YouTube videos at the site, as well as two recordings that appear to be complete Saturday morning services. The plugin was giving me difficulty, but you can find the link by looking at the source pretty easily. You can also find a complete Karaite Haggadah, a count of the Omer (only the first day so far), and various holiday songs at the Holidays section of the site.
A Conservative synagogue with some beautiful accompanied recordings of Cantor Dov Keren as well as High Holiday recordings of the choir. You can also see their SoundCloud.
A great archive of Jewish music of all sorts, and unlike its Dartmouth cousin, this one doesn't require registration. There's a lot of classic as well as modern chazanut. There are over 12000 songs/tracks (at the time of this writing, so who knows how many there are at the time of this reading), with all kinds of stuff. It's not easy to find things by service because there's just so much. It's really quite awesome -- and quite difficult to properly categorize its offerings. They are merging with the Recorded Sound Archives.
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 huge archive of Jewish recordings of various types, from chazzanut to folk songs to dance. You can see the albums a few at a time, or see the songs a few at a time with genre information, but I don't think it's easily sortable by genre. Still, this is a great place to find stuff if you know what you want in particular.
An archive of Hebrew music, including chazanut and much else.
An insane amount of stuff in a completely unsearchable format. Mr. Bernhaut hosts a weekly radio show with two hours of music, and each episode is available, along with a list of the recordings used. There's Jewish music of all types, but quite a bit is chazzanut. The problem here is that the lists aren't organized by genre or occasion, so to me, it's completely opaque unless I go and listen to everything. Which I might just do, because this is really cool. In the meantime, this is actually a pretty good place to look for specific pieces of chazzanut provided you can suss out the spelling and use your browser's find function.
Lots of stuff. The whole RH/YK thing is on here, in mp3 format. A great resource, and the cantor has wonderfully clear nusach.
WARNING: AUTOPLAY! A band that performs weddings and other events. They have a huge collection of music to listen to, though, including, obviously, a lot of wedding and dance music.
A repository of links to videos of Jewish music by a big variety of performers.
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.
Ashkenazic trope for every occasion, as well as, separately, Reform trope for Torah and haftarah. Includes a special melody for Eichah 3. It also features interesting melodic diagrams for the different t'amim.
A Sephardic synagogue with two streaming players on the page with Moroccan nusach and music, one of which has a CD that can be downloaded. The one that can't be downloaded has several recordings of each part of the Friday night service, several parts of the Saturday morning service. However, you have to scroll through them to see them. The second player has music from a concert (the CDs can be downloaded, but there's no track information on them), which mostly includes piyutim (a couple from Havdalah) and features instrumental music as well.
A Modern Orthodox shul's with recordings of Shabbat minchah, some weekday davening, and a few other audio files.
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.
In Spanish. A Conservative synagogue with links to videos and selections from various CDs by its cantors, including some Shabbat tunes and many Yiddish songs.
A shul's website with some good recordings, for Shabbat and more!
Contains a CD of accompanied Friday night melodies, as well as other Shabbat and even a couple of High Holiday melodies without accompaniment.
Interesting -- a bunch of recordings of only the chatimot, along with sheet music for same. Only includes chatimot from "Baruch atah Adonai". Includes maariv and shacharit for Shabbat, weekdays, and festivals.
A Syrian synagogue in New Jersey with a bunch of YouTube videos of havdalah in different maqamat as well as several videos S'lichot.
A bunch of 1980's recordings of Shabbat table songs with a Sephardic flair. There are many zemirot here. The previous page also has a Purim song.
A shul's website with recordings for Shabbat morning (not including Musaf).
Three flat recordings of Kabbalat Shabbat, maariv, and shacharit (only from Shochen Ad to the end of the Amidah).
This is a site mostly for transliterations, but some of them have a music symbol that provides recordings.
A Conservative synagogue with some recordings for b'nei mitzvah as well as a few Shabbat tunes under Worship->Music Corner. Includes some of the Birkat Hamazon, Torah service, Friday night, and Torah trope.
A set of (weekday) morning blessings, from Modeh Ani to the Torah reading, for children to learn the morning service. Includes Al Tira after Aleinu (under Amidah and End of Shacharit)
Some upbeat accompanied recordings of Shabbat melodies. Includes Torah and haftarah trope as well.
Great resource for Torah/haftarah trope and P'sukei D'zimrah, both with weekday nusach and the major Shabbat nusach.
A website for learning to chant using Sephardic taamim, specifically Baghdadi, and Spanish and Portuguese as well.
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!
The website for a bentscher, which has recordings for a bunch of the zemirot therein as well as Birkat Hamazon itself.
In Hebrew (the English version is less complete). Nava Tehila is a Renewal prayer group in Jerusalem that has come up with nice new melodies and produced songs -- in quantity! -- for Kabbalat Shabbat, and a bit for High Holidays. The albums (see the bar at the top) are listenable, but only in the Hebrew version of the site. Parts of the site are still to come, including Shir Hashirim and Shabbat Arvit.
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.
In Hebrew. This is a Yemenite yeshiva in Jerusalem, with a lot of videos, lessons, and so on scattered throughout the site. The videos are all in one page here.
This is an interesting blog, which highlights a tune every post. There's good stuff here, though it's not exactly easy to find!
Goethe University's digitized Judaica collection. It isn't all music, but there is a lot of that there anyway. There are over 10000 items -- good luck! If you know what you're looking for, you can find Baer's Baal T'fillah, for example. This place is extensive.
A synagogue's website with several nice produced albums' worth of Shabbat and High Holiday tunes.
A synagogue (I can't tell if it has a denomination) with a lot of Shabbat morning tracks (and Eichah trope as well). The Saturday morning recordings also include Torah and haftarah trope.
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.
A Modern Orthodox synagogue in Cape Town, in South Africa, with some wonderful recordings of their cantor and choir. They are hosted on their SoundCloud and include Shabbat, wedding, and High Holiday tunes.
A Modern Orthodox synagogue with a few links to recordings elsewhere, including YouTube, and several really wonderful accompanied recordings by their cantor. These include L'chah Dodi, Yism'chu B'malchut'cha, the Kedushah, Birkat Kohanim, Sim Shalom, some of Hallel, and Birkat Hachodesh.
A Sephardic synagogue in Brookline, MA. There are recordings of Torah reading, both regular and for holidays, and all of the megilot, including Kohelet.
A few spirited recordings of Shabbat melodies, using quite a bit of Carlebach. Includes an interesting melody for Eliyahu Hanavi.
An egal synagogue's website with an almost complete Friday night service, as well as Kiddush and Shalom Aleichem.
Some Shabbat recordings and some High Holiday Torah readings.
A Reform synagogue with recordings for b'nei mitzvah and a few other tracks including nicely accompanied songs. All of these are under Spiritual Life->Music.
A cantor's site with several Shabbat recordings.
A Conservative synagogue with recordings for b'nei mitzvah, including the Shabbat Torah service and Havdalah, as well as Ps. 24 from Shabbat minchah. Some of these are under B'nai Mitzvah Blanning->More Prayer Recordings. There's Torah trope too.
Some Friday night recordings. On the left side, go to Resources then Passionate Davening, or try this and see if the link works. Also includes Torah and haftarah trope.
This is Cambridge in England. They have a nice sound!
A two-disk set for a Reconstructionist Friday night, including often several melodies for texts, even some that aren't traditionally part of the liturgy like Hineh Mah Tov and Dodi Li. 7 tunes for L'chah Dodi, 5 for Adon Olam, 4 for Mi Chamocha, both Y'did Nefesh and Shalom Aleichem, etc. The only issue is that the recordings have some annoying clicking, unfortunately.
In French. There's a collection of radio programs, in French, about Jewish music from around the world. I don't know how to find anything, though. There are also recordings under Médiathèque Halphen, though those are, that I could see, all excerpts.
A blog with videos of chazzanut -- lots of them! They're not categorized, though, so I can't know what's here without looking through all 55 pages of it (so far).
A very informative site with links to YouTube videos of folk songs of various types, including Yiddish and Ladino.
Recordings of Saturday morning services, with nice nusach.
A couple of Shabbat morning recordings as well as the congregational melodies of Hallel (not the nusach).
This is really cool! Torah and haftarah trope, in Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Moroccan traditions. The interface is heavy on Flash, so make sure to whitelist the site in your Flash blocker if you plan on using it. Includes blessings before and after Torah and haftarah in the three traditions as well, for many occasions (not all occasions are present). And also the entire Torah.
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 built the page, but I have been informed that the recordings are by R. Sheftel Neuberger, Nasi of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel in Baltimore. They are the the Yeshiva's unique nusach, culled together by R. Sheftel's father, uncle, and grandfather as a mixture of the nusachot from Slabodka, Mir, and Valozhin in Europe.
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.
Information relating to a few Jewish holidays. There are some MIDIs for Chanukah and the Haggadah, and some nicer .mp3 recordings of Purim songs.
Recordings of Selmar Cerini, who was Oberkantor at the Neue Synagogue in Breslau, Germany from 1894 until his death in 1923. As can be expected from 100-year-old recordings, these are very scratchy, but they're absolutely wonderful to listen to. There are several from High Holidays, kaddish from Geshem and Tal, Mi Adir from the wedding service, and a few other tunes.
A few recordings of blessings -- with sheet music! It's not a big collection, but I hadn't heard their El Adon melody before. (By the way, the sheet music links are broken, but they're only missing the colon after the 'http' so you can still access the link.)
In French. A site dedicated to the Portuguese rite in France with a few recordings. There are recordings for High Holidays and Slichot, brachot for an aliyah and haftarah, some for Shabbat, and Ps. 137 for Tish'ah B'av.
A reconstructionist shul with some prayer resources for Shabbat. The linked page only has the Debbie Friedman Havdalah, the actual Debbie Friedman original, but clicking on "Lead Services KI Style" leads to another page with Shabbat morning recordings. There, there are two versions of selections from each service, Sim Shalom and Kol Haneshamah, to reflect differences between the two siddurim.
Wikimedia has a handful of recordings from the National Library of Israel, including Lag Baomer, the Shema, some High Holiday recordings, Haggadah, and Chanukah.
A synagogue website with a bunch of recordings of congregational melodies for Shabbat evening and morning.
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.
A Reconstructionist synagogue. 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.
A Reform synagogue's website with a mostly complete Kabbalat Shabbat, some of Shabbat maariv, and the opening of the Shabbat Torah service.
Kabbalat Shabbat and some high holidays. Includes some external recordings as well.
A very nice set of recordings for Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv, 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.
A Conservative synagogue in Brooklyn -- the oldest Jewish congregation there, in fact. It has very good (accompanied) Friday night mp3 recordings, with melodies you might not find in other sites.
A site dedicated to Spanish and Portuguese communities, with links to videos on YouTube from the Paris, Montreal, Gibraltar, and London communities.
Simchat Torah songs! Many of them! The Sheva Brachot are here, too.
A synagogue in Pinner, outside of London. There are a few recordings of Shabbat morning under Davening Recordings, with a few general Shabbat recordings under Songs for the 5-8s Service and a page with Ashrei and An'im Z'mirot. There are weekday recordings under Minchah and Ma'ariv Recordings, not easily linked from the main site.
An independent egalitarian minyan with Saturday morning stuff with a nice Hasidic sound.
A whole lot of playlists for the radio, grouped into selections of several songs with names like "Selection for Succot 2". Most of them have no track listings, unfortunately. There's some liturgical music, Israeli popular music, Chasidic, etc. The music opens in a player with no timer on it, so it's difficult to navigate, but it's really good for just listening!
A huge collection of videos of Chasidic tishes and such.
Big collection of YouTube links to songs and melodies.
A cantor's website, featuring a sample Seder Haavodah from Yom Kippur as well as a few other recordings. There's a little bit of Avodah sheet music as well.
A site by a son dedicated to his father's nusach. Contains extensive recordings of traditional High Holiday nusach, including many interesting melodies.
Some Iraqi Jewish music, including Bavli Slichot.
Charlie Chehebar has recorded a 63-minute tape of Egyptian chazanut, available here. I really don't know what's in it without listening to the whole thing, since I don't recognize the texts, but they're nice singable melodies.
A progressive synagogue with a wide variety of recordings, including Shabbat, bar mitzvah, high holidays, and some really cool older stuff.
In French. This website explains the concept of the nouba and presents some examples. There are several recordings here, of bakashot and piyutim in the weekly nouba -- you can find them under Nouba de la semaine as well as under Auditorium -- though it looks like there are still many things missing.
The website of the Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan. It features several beautiful recordings of produced songs with liturgical texts, as well as some chazanut.
In Hebrew (though the English site is complete). The website of a Masorti synagogue in Israel, with prayer tunes for Kabbalat Shabbat and aliyah/haftarah blessings.
An interesting site, centered around Rabbi Frydman's book Calling on God. It contains meditative chants based on repeating a few words, but it also has recordings of prayer melodies for Kabbalat Shabbat (and Ahavat Olam from maariv) under Melodies -> Shabbat and Holy Days. Additionally, there's a melody for Ana B'choach under Prayers -> Ana Bkoach.
Several resources from the Reconstructionist Movement.
A blog with an emphasis on recordings of North African Jewish music, among other things. Unfortunately, it is a blog, so you'll have to do some digging if you want to find anything; the link goes to all posts tagged with "music". Most of the music is secular music, but you can find some music and text from the Haggadah at this post and Ki Lo Naeh, Kol Nidrei, and El Nora Alilah at this one. You can also browse the author's SoundCloud.
Tracks from a bar-mitzvah CD. Includes a nice Ashrei melody.
Some MIDI files of various songs and prayers.
A Carlebach minyan with a bunch of Friday night tunes. Unfortunately -- and this is indeed very unfortunate -- most of the links on the page are dead, but you might be able to explore what once was through the Wayback Machine. At the second paragraph there's a link to a local page with recordings, and that one is still alive.
Some very beautiful recordings of Friday night services accompanied by guitar. Note that I couldn't get them to open by clicking, but right-clicking and hitting "Save link as..." worked.
A zemirot project with an interesting selection. Unfortunately, it's the kind of thing that Chrome makes you download rather than opening in the browser.
A set of recordings of Shabbat blessings and songs. In .wma and Real Audio formats. Some of it is spoken rather than chanted. The site is sort of difficult to navigate; another page with very nice accompanied recordings is here.
In French. A blog dedicated to the preservation of old vinyl records, including North African music. Searching by tags yields a few Algerian and Moroccan Jewish artists, but the only liturgical recordings are Jo Amar's Haggadah de Pessach, 1ère partie and 2ème partie.
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, as well as trope and a few other things. I don't know what language the page is in, though, and some of the links don't work.
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!
A chazan's website; features several audio clips from Shabbat as well as Im Eshkachech.
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.
In Russian. Messianic Chabad website with niggunim and songs in Russian, Hebrew, and English.
Instructional recordings on the Syrian t'amim for the Sifrai Emet (Job, Psalms, Proverbs), in English, with plenty of explanation for how the system works. It's the only source with this level of instruction that I know of so far.
In Hebrew. A major Jewish/Israeli cultural center, featuring a large number of songs and videos.
A shul's website with recordings for Shabbat morning.
In Spanish. A site with links to videos of Jewish music, including quite a few golden age cantors on YouTube.
Links to Chasidic albums by dynasty. Most are hosted at FAU.
A Reform shul's website with much of Shabbat shacharit.
Several wedding tunes, including three melodies for Asher Bara and three for Od Yishama.
A cantor with some beautiful accompanied recordings of various High Holiday selections and a handful of Shabbat selections as well.
A small collection of scores, mostly of Jewish art music. Includes some zemirot/piyutim as well.
A Conservative synagogue with a nice complete Birkot Hashachar and P'sukei D'zimrah for Shabbat, as well as a bunch of High Holiday melodies.
An Orthodox synagogue in the Young Israel movement with a big set of High Holiday recordings.
A band that plays a blend of musical sounds, some of which to liturgical texts, like Kabbalat Shabbat psalms, L'chah Dodi, Adon Olam, etc.
This is an ensemble from Tel-Aviv that performs and writes music for liturgical songs. There is sheet music for Adon Olam and Ps. 92 under Y'tzirah Y'hudit Yisraelit -> Sidurei T'filah -> Tavim Litfilah. You can also find their Bandcamp, with various tunes.
Some spoken recordings and aliyah blessings, as well as the entire weekday mincah and maariv services. Includes two different nuschaot for maariv.
A Reform synagogue's website with a set of Shabbat morning recordings for bnei mitzvah.
Some sheet music for Shabbat (and Avinu Malkeinu).
A Reform congregation with some Shabbat recordings (in a Flash app). Some of the texts are read, some chanted, some both.
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.
A cantor-performer's website, with some recordings from performances.
A synagogue's website with recordings for the religious school's prayer curriculum. There are various recordings for Friday night and Saturday morning.
Some audio files for Friday evening and Shabbat morning's Torah service.
A shul's website with a few Shabbat recordings.
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 Reform synagogue with with several Shabbat service recordings that include explanations of the prayers.
A class wiki for a liturgy class that has some recordings and sheet music on it, including a comparison of kaddish for N'ilah and Geshem. Most of the items on the wiki are notes on the liturgy itself rather than the melodies, though.
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. Also on the site is La chorale EI de Léo Cohn, with several Jewish recordings from the 1930's including Tanu Rabanan (a version of Echad Mi Yodea), Yom M'nuchah, Hatikvah, Maoz Tzur, etc.
This is the Conservative synagogue where I had my bar-mitzvah! There are some mostly Carlebach tunes for Friday night here.
Rabbi David Paskin's site; it includes a rock Kabbalat Shabbat and maariv under "Unplug"!
A guide to leading a Conservative Friday night service from the Sim Shalom, including recordings for many of the parts of the service.
A synagogue's site with several Friday night recordings.
A shul's website with few Shabbat morning recordings and Friday night Kiddush.
A band's website, with some rock settings for Shabbat piyutim and zemirot.
A handful of recordings with basic Torah/haftarah trope, a couple of songs, and a few blessings.
The Orthodox Berlin Synagogue, featuring a few YouTube videos of Cantor Arie Zaloshinsky, including Kol Nidrei and a wedding.
A website with Yemenite interest; includes a music section with links to Yemenite, Sephardic, and other recordings.
Several recordings of Rosh Hashanah nusach, covering most of musaf, also Yom Kippur maariv. If listening to them doesn't work (Mediafire is wonky), try downloading them.
A Sephardic synagogue with two CD's, one of slichot and the other of Shabbat songs (and stories), with tracks available for download.
A center for promoting Iraqi Jews. There are some recordings of Torah and piyutim here in Real Audio format.
A site of daily psalms, which also includes the entire book chanted in the Syrian tradition.
Several Ladino songs on YouTube, along with the text and English translations. It's very nice.
A minyan whose cantor has participated in some Jewish music radio programs linked, which include some liturgical music.
Torah readings for the year, as well as taamim and Esther.
A synagogue with some audio files for b'nei mitzvah's Shabbat morning service. I like the melody used for Baruch Sheamar!
A Renewal congregation that particularly enjoys chanting, with a lot of recordings of the chants they sing.
Several recordings, in several styles, of Baal Hasulam (Yehuda Ashlag)'s compositions.
A cantor's website with a few recordings for Shabbat and High Holidays.
A Reform synagogue with a set of Shabbat recordings for Friday night and Saturday morning.
An Orthodox synagogue with a few tracks on how to lead davening for weekday shacharit and Shabbat kiddush (night and day).
In Hebrew, but there's a French site as well that's somewhat different with an odd sidebar. A site dedicated to North African Judaism. You can find taamim and Torah reading here and here and some piyutim (Y'did Nefesh, Yom Shabaton, Ki Eshmera Shabbat, a few others) here.
A cantor's professional recordings, taken from his CD's. Very beautiful settings. Includes Kol Nidrei, Sim Shalom, L'dor Vador, Mah L'cha Hayam, Hodu, Od Yishama.
A long list of audio shiurim, but also some songs as well, including L'chah Dodi, M'ein Olam Haba, Adon Olam, and a couple of others.
A Jewish school in Rio de Janeiro (that I almost went to, actually). They have a blog where occasionally some recordings are posted, though not all of them actually work. The link goes to the Pesach page, but there's also a page for Rosh Hashanah, Purim, etc.
A blog post with a great many links to Pesach niggunim, most sadly broken.
A singing group with some demo recordings in Real Audio format of blessings and z'mirot.
Has a few sample recordings of the Amsterdam Synagogue Choirp>
A few recordings of Jewish songs with good accompaniment. The group is Italian, so there are some Italian melodies along the modern Israeli melodies.
In Hebrew. A songbook/workbook featuring a number of notated Israeli songs.
Torah and haftarah trope.
A fairly large collection of high holiday tunes, with many nice melodies.
A Conservative synagogue with a few Saturday morning recordings. The focus seems to be on An'im Z'mirot, for which there are 9 recordings comprising a few different melodies.
Cantor Moshe Schulhof's recordings of chazanut; there are a few tunes here.
Several of Mechon Hadar's Joey Weisenberg's niggunim (including one of An'im Z'mirot) as YouTube videos, as well as opportunities to purchase his books and albums of Jewish communal music.
A nice selection of (mostly) high holiday melodies, sung rather slowly.
Some beautiful professionally recorded music based on liturgy. I'm not sure it's useful in leading a service, but it's certainly very, very nice. Includes melodies for R'tzeh and Modim in the Amidah, a folk tune for V'shamru, Hashkiveinu, Ps. 96, etc.
A Reconstructionist shul's website with a couple of High Holiday recordings, including some kids' songs, and also some Chanukah songs.
A Conservative synagogue with some recordings of the Torah service and the beginning of Shabbat musaf.
A shul's junior congregation melodies site. It has what you'd expect -- Shabbat morning melodies!
A Reform synagogue with audio for b'nei mitzvah of Shabbat morning.
Torah reading in the Egyptian style, with an audio lesson on the taamim.
A synagogue site with several guitar-accompanied songs with lyrics from liturgy and some prayers as well (like Shabbat maariv Bar'chu).
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 website with some Shabbat recordings. There are not many parts of the services available, but for the ones that are, there are many melodies, including 8 for El Adon and 6 for Ps. 29.
In French. A synagogue in Pau, in the far southwest of France near the Spanish border. There's a recording of Birkat Hamazon.
A cantor's website with tracks of classic chazanut from an album, including some high holiday tracks, the Oysher Chad Gadya, and a few others.
A site featuring many MIDI files of music for Chanukah, Pesach, and High Holidays (the Purim page is empty).
The Moroccan Sephardic Heritage Institute, featuring a few Kabbalat Shabbat recordings in the Moroccan T'hilim trope.
A center for K-5 Jewish learning that has melodies to help the children learn prayers. These include basic parts of the Shabbat morning service and Friday kiddush.
A Reform synagogue with a few recordings. Includes haftarah blessings under Worship, basic Shabbat evening blessings under Worship->Jewish Rituals in the Home, and a few more recordings under Worship->Jewish Rituals In the Synagogue.
A recording for Shabbat maariv, using some interesting nusach choices like minor for Avot.
Several Carlebach (and Carlebach-style) Friday night melodies.
A Renewal synagogue with a few spirited Kabbalat Shabbat tracks at Renewal Service, Rhythm and Ruach, and Shira Chadasha on the left navigation bar.
A recording of the basic weekday maariv service.
An organization to promote global Judaism that happens to also promote some Jewish music from around the world. There are just a few tracks, including a few from the Abayudaya in Uganda some Zimbabwean and Sephardic popular music, and a YouTube video of a Sephardic Yah Ribon.
A site that aims to have recordings of everything, but it's not very populated yet, and it's unfortunately not easy to tell what's there and what isn't. There are some weekday nusach recordings, so far, and maybe other things as well.
A Reform synagogue's website with prayer melodies for its weekday morning minyan. It's Reform, so there's lots of singing.
A yeshiva in Denver with recordings for weekday shacharit, not including the amidah, with tunes.
This is a Christian site, but it contains a few recordings: Oseh Shalom, Eshet Chayil, and the first paragraph of the Birkat Hamazon.
A French Ashkenazic haggadah with some sheet music at the end. Includes Hodu/Ana/Adir Hu, two tunes for Ki Lo Naeh, Chasal Sidur Pesach, and two tunes for Echad Mi Yodea, one of which is in French.
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 Flash slideshow with text and songs for a Tu Bishvat seder.
In French (though you can visit a reduced site in Englih). A big site about Judaism, with a small selection of music links (most of which are dead, unfortunately). The only thing actually hosted on the site are some slichot in North African tradition.
A Messianic community with guitar-accompanied recordings of the Shabbat morning service, including the Lord's Prayer.
A website for the Black Jews, also known as Israelites, featuring a few videos containing melodies of this community.
An article about the music of N'ilah in two parts, with audio examples.
Some Yom Kippur melodies that are mostly hosted on other sites, especially Congregation Beth Sholom of Tea Neck.
A site dedicated to Jews of color, especially those who were children of US soldiers in Germany after WWII. There are some links to music by Jews of color, including some gospel!
A synagogue website featuring some YouTube videos of Cantor Sol Zim. Under Worship and Prayer -> Davening for Dummies, there are also recordings of Tikanta Shabbat and Mimkomcha from Shabbat services.
A cnator's website with some beautiful chazanut.
An egalitarian progressive congregtaion in Singapore. This page contains some High Holiday recordings prepared by the cantor for 2013.
The first four psalms, chanted according to a Moroccan tradition (note that the first psalm is preceded by Ps. 95:1-3). There appear to be links to a great deal of chazanut by Ribi David Kadoch, but there really aren't -- however, the darkeabotenou Youtube channel does have them.
Some MIDIs and sheet music of Jewish and liturgical tunes, including Ashrei Hagafrur.
Some scholarly articles about synagogue music, with notated examples.
MIDIs (yes!) of niggunim. No words, naturally -- they're niggunim! Also MIDIs. There are Chabad niggunim, other Chasidic niggunim, and the author's own.
Some videos of High Holiday services. Not all that interesting, honestly.
A few High Holiday tunes, including the aliyah blessings in High Holiday trope! Also includes a verse-by-verse reading of chapter 9 of Esther.
A Youtube video of a Purim kiddush.
In Spanish. This is a Messianic website with links to YouTube videos of psalms and slichot.
A traditional egalitarian minyan with a page of High Holiday recordings. Most come from other sites, but a few are in-house.
A Reform congrgation; they've put out a CD with some songs and prayers, and they even have the sheet music available! There is also audio of blessings under their religious school, but it's all spoken, not sung.
An online "synagogue", with sermons and other services. There are some recordings of Kol Nidrei, as well as High Holiday Torah readings and streamed services.
A Conservative and Reconstructionist synagogue with High Holiday Torah readings as well as Torah trope.
A synagogue's website, featuring several (produced) High Holiday piyutim sung by Cantor Zev Müller.
A synagogue with a recording of Torah trope. The cantor's page also has the Shabbat musaf k'dushah.
A handful of beautiful songs; I'm not sure they stand on their own without the accompaniment, but there is one (instrumental) Chasidish L'chah Dodi and P'tach Lanu Shaar from Neilah.
Some Friday night ideas from the people behind the Siddur Lev Shalem for some of their new texts.
A few examples of Kabbalat Shabbat nusach as well as a few melodies for L'chah Dodi.
Several renditions of the Yekkish (German) Ps. 128 by Israel Meyer Japhet.
In Portuguese. A Messianic congregation in Vitória, Espírito Santo. The site isn't really all up, and most of the recordings are Christian-style church band songs (oddly, they're mostly in English though the titles are translated in Portuguese), but there's a nice melody for Eshet Chayil in there somewhere, and maybe a few other things.
A site with some music related to Kabbalah. I have only been able to get the four tracks at the bottom to work, and only when I do Save Link As... on them. One of them is Dror Yikra.
A cantor's website. There are some recordings of Torah/haftarah blessings and several performance videos. Under Nusach Recordings, you'll find some very nice selections from Tal as well.
A Reform synagogue with some audio files for some of the basic Shabbat prayers.
A Conservative synagogue's guide to Tachanun at minchah.
An indedependent congregation; there are a couple of Ramón Tasat recordings here and links to a YouTube channel.
Some archival recordings of the choir of the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation.
In Portuguese. A small but homey synagogue in Lisbon (I've been there!). This is the music sung at their centenary.
A site with Moroccan customs. The linked page has some children's songs; other pages also contain Yalla Mimouna and a kinah for Tish'ah B'av.
Four recordings of the complete Sh'ma.
Some videos of melodies from Aleppo. There's very little content here, and it actually varies by language.
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?
Torah and haftarah tropes, each in an individual MIDI, with musical notation as well.
A minyan in London. There are no recordings here, but there's sheet music for Mi Haish, Ozi V'zimrat Yah, and Adonai S'fatai Tiftach.
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.
Torah and haftarah tropes, each in an individual MIDI.
A yeshiva in B'nei Brak with videos of shiurim. The only one I've found with singing is this one, the kinah Halanoflim T'kumah.
Two Belzer niggunim.
A nusach blog that really never got off the ground, but it has several links to videos of El Adon.
The website of the Santo Servicio Portuguese choir in Amsterdam. There's only one recording -- Shir Hamaalot, Ps. 128, sung at weddings -- but it's a great one!
A Reconstructionist synagogue with a recording of the Torah blessings, as well as High Holiday Torah readings.
A very old, unmaintained webpage for the Jewish Community of Malta (there are other sites claiming to be the official site for this community). It features a few MIDIs (this site is that old) of a few Jewish songs from the liturgy and otherwise.
A handful of High Holiday recordings (in Box hosting) in a nice old style.
A Reform synagogue with recordings of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Torah readings.
A shul's website with a couple of Shabbat recordings, including Chatzi Kaddish, first two blessings of the Amidah, and Torah and haftarah blessings. The text for the blessings is included as well.
A bentscher, but one bit of it contains sheet music for some niggunim.
A shul's website with a couple of High Holiday recordings (Zochreinu, Melech Al Kol Haaretz).
A couple of audio classes on niggunim.
An Orthodox network of European communities. Their old site features some YouTube videos of Yom Kippur melodies.
Recordings of Torah and haftarah blessings and trope.
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 Reform synagogue with four YouTube videos containing High Holiday melodies.
A Reconstructionist congregation with a very few high holiday tunes (Avot, G'vurot, Chatzi Kaddish).
A blog post with a few recordings from the Rosh Hashanah Amidah.
Contains Avot v'Imahot from High Holidays and Mah Tovu, as well as an English song. Also has a link to a YouTube video of the Debbie Friedman Havdalah.
A handful of recordings from Shabbat shacharit and Musaf. Includes Kedusha for both services.
A Yemenite (Aden) synagogue in London, with some Adeni music with unsure connection to liturgy.
Torah tropes, each in an individual recording.
A 1996 website about the Song of Songs. Contains small samples of its chanting is Ashkenazi, Moroccan, and Yemenite traditions, in RealAudio format.
A few samples of Nefesh Mountain's Shabbat concert/service music.
A Modern Orthodox with a men's choir; there's just one recording here, of the Al Tira after Aleinu.
A small set of Friday night recordings in the style of chazzanut done beautifully with piano accompaniment. Includes a wonderful Kiddush.
A cantor's website with a couple of Friday night tracks from one of his CD's.
A non-denominational minyan with some Friday night audio files selected from Northwestern Conservative.
A Modern Orthodox synagogue; hidden well within the website are a sizable collection of Simchat Torah songs (and two Sukkot songs as well).
In Portuguese. Some .mp3's and videos of Leonardo Gonçalves singing Pesach tunes beautifully.
A couple of Pesach recordings.
Some centuries-old sheet music for Adir Hu and Ki Lo Naeh and a video of a modern group's rendition of it. Pretty cool stuff.
A nifty Flash site with follow-along text and audio for some prayers. Unfortunately, it never got very far and is quite limited -- only candlelighting, hamotzi, and the Shema. The melody for candlelighting was one I hadn't heard before, though.
It's a live video of a Simchat Torah service, but it's *quite* Reform, so it's not very full of nusach.
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.
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.
In French. This is a French Jewish magazine, and this part of it is about Jewish customs and such. Unfortunately, most of the audio is Real Audio, which means good luck. There's Torah and haftarah here, and a few other recordings under Nos fêtes. However, I haven't been able to get anything to play.
Only one melody here: Bar'chu for high holiday shacharit. Looks like a test site that never got off the ground.
Different traditions' recordings of Kol Nidrei, in Real Audio format. Or so it says. I couldn't get them to work.
There are only two working tunes here, for Mim'kom'cha and for Mah Ashiv. Looks like a test site that never got off the ground.
A Jewish publisher with online resources, including sheet music for halom Aleichem and Eliyahu Hanavi.
In Hebrew. A site about Ethiopian Jews and their struggles, which also includes music. I couldn't figure out the connection of the music to liturgy, unfortunately, nor am I familiar with the liturgy of Ethiopian Jews at all, so I can't give much guidance here.
In Hebrew. There are presumably recordings of chazzanut here, but the files are all 404'd. They do have an archive here.
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.
Various chasidic niggunim. The links appear to be dead, though.
A Reform synagogue with just a couple of audio files so far, covering Aleinu, the chatzi kaddish from the Torah service (or Shabbat maariv, according to some traditions), and the Shema/Baruch Shem K'vod.
A few Yom Kippur melodies, though none of the links work at the moment.
A Masorti shul with a recording of the aliyah blessings.
Completely Flash-based -- the whole thing is Flash. The site is of a Messianic synagogue. Also, there are no recordings on it yet as of when I last checked -- hopefully there will be nice ones soon!
A Reform congregation with recordings of the Torah aliyah blessings.
A Modern Orthodox shul's recording of the Torah blessings for High Holidays.
A Modern Orthodox synagogue with recordings of a four-part Kol Nidrei. There are other recordings on the site, but they're from Virtual Cantor or Chabad.
There used to be a cantor's page here with some stuff, but it looks like the old site is down and the new one has a link to a YouTube channel instead of recordings.