David Ricardo

David Israel Ricardo (1904-1982; DIR) was conductor of the communal Santo Sevicio choir before the war. He was the eldest son the rabbi dr. B. Israel Ricardo, who translated the tefillot. David Ricardo immigrated to Israel in 1933 and in the 1950’s made many recordings which I copied from the Israel National Library (NLI) and indexed. The filename of the original recording (first column) contains the NLI catalogue number for reference (www.nli.org.il). Mind the indexing of the NLI is in many cases incomplete and or incorrect. The indexed parts don’t contain the connecting talking in Hebrew, which as such is relevant.
See also his book 8 Sephardic tunes from Amsterdam which is part of the Ets Haim collection.

Mr. Ricardo, who lived in Israel most of his life, made these recordings while using the modern Hebrew pronunciation. See elsewhere on this site about our Amsterdam-Sephardi pronunciation.

All recordings are by Ricardo (DIR), unless stated otherwise. “unknown” is an anounimous singer.

Original name (NLI)	Indexed
Kadish (1953)	unknown coir; “cleaned” version
Samachti beomrim li (1953)	Psalm 122, unknown coir
Ele hadebarim (1955) Chazon Yesangyahu	Parasa Debarim Haftara Debarim
Balayla hahu (1957)	Megilat Esther
Hadlakat nerot (1957)	Berachot, Hanerot halalu (mind the recording also has “Maoz tsur”, which does not belong to our nuscah)
Emet ve’emuna (1958)	SRP *1) Musaph Kipur (YK): Seder avoda unknown Simchat Tora evening *2): Lakeel nora, Kadish, barechu (sheet music Lakeel nora only) unknown Simchat Tora evening: Hashcibenu (sheet music page 3-4) DR & NN Simchat Tora: Arvit  & Sheet Music NN festive: Ufros
Recording (1960)	Friday night: .   Psalm 29; Psalm 92 – home; Psalm 93;  Kadish & barechu Shabbat morning Kidush Shabbat mincha Kedusha Kipur – Kal Nidre: Shema koli; assigning the honors; Kal Nidre & Shehecheyanu; Selichot
Yamim noraim (1963)	Rosh Hashana morning: Kidush Kipur: .    General: Selichot; Ochila-Avot-gevurot; Seder Avoda .    Mincha – Ka Shema RH & YK: Adon Ngolam
Rosh hashana (1963)	Arvit RH: Waya’achilehu
Kadish (1975)	All are kadish, unless stated otherwise Evening: RH&YK; Regalim; Shabbat Bershit 1, Shabbat Bershit 2; Pesach;  Last kadish of each Regel; Kipur Shacharit; End Kadish & Barechu .   General .   Shabbat .   Kadish Simchat Tora morning;  Kedusha: .   Shabbat: Shacharit; Mincha .   Regalim Shacharit 1, Shacharit 2    Simchat Tora; General: Haleel; Shabbat: Kidush Simchat Tora: Bo’i Beshalom; Beyom HazeSee also on sheet music pageSee also on sheet music page

*1) : The chazzan is Haham S. Rodrigues Pereira (SRP). This partly overlaps and extends his CD2-TR3 recoding.
*2) : Melodies for Simchat Tora can also be used on Shabbat Bereshit and Shabbat Nachamu, the Shabbat we commemorate the inauguration of the Esnoga on “Saba Nachamu in 1675”.