Chazzan Naphtali & Netanel Herstik, Ad Heina

[blakemooney]

I come back to this music again and.... I hear different things. Some things seem a bit different over time. I know that's my hearing. The notes are friends and speak of humaness, of the warmth and caring I feel and cherish. I go back in bursting memories to my uncle who introduced me to the great Jewish Cantors in 1936 in his Rectory. I'm cranking the old Victrola aware of his intense humming along and his eyes that watch me and his records intently. To go their again....to hear them sing....

[chazanutman]

who is TOP CANTOR and what qualifies him to say this The Herstiks daven with Kavanah and wouldnt be where they are if they were not at the top of their profession and Naftali at TACI has produced and taught with his staff young men and made them into chazanim

[TOPCANTOR]

absolute rubbish

[WorldTravelerMan]

he was one of the 3 chazzanim on PBS with alberto mizrahi and miller.

he has good control and good interpretation of the tfilah.

[GazzaBim]

hey despite what you sa

i was singing at that concertand he so much better than it sound cause this is a bad recording

[yossis27]

What absolute rubbish! just goes to show that a name like Hershtik can take you places others even more talented can't. He can sing like a pot of burnt cholent and everyone will go GAGA!

[menachemshtark]

nice

[aslevin69]

I read with interest the comments about the voices of Herstik Senoir & Junior.I won't comment on that, as it's a matter of taste.Besides,it takes much more than a great voice to make a great Chazzan. What concerns me, however, is the performance of the piece. Rosenblatt wrote it as a solo,and I'm not so sure that singing AD HEINA as s duet is the right thing to do. Also,I feel the piece is dragging too slowly,and the slow tempo is damaging it. Music must 'move',otherwise it's loosing its power.

[vintagepa]

I've heard this rendition done by many chazzonim and I agree that it is very slow moving. However, it was beautiful nonetheless. Two years ago I davened in the New York Synagogue where Natanel is the chazzan and his father Naftali was also there for shabbos. What a wonderful davening we experienced! Their voices were superb and as more men entered the sanctuary the movable mechitza continued to move until I was directly under the lecturn. Their voices were above me and what a treat.

[blakemooney]

Thanks to Cantor Klang for sending me the link to this wonderful song. It could be an arduous task just moving up and down the difficult parts of AD HEINA but these two are a father and son duo having enormous talent. The song is beautifully presented. Thanks for posting this.

[cantors]

True Herstik Class

[chupp44]

great! pure joy hearing them both. no combination of chazzonim today is capable of this type of completing eachother.

[ANGLOMAVEN]

Although I would not put them in the same class, Farkas & son are more enjoyable as a pair than the Herstiks.

[chacham1]

These comments are personal insults not objective criticism. "Maven" my foot....

[ANGLOMAVEN]

With respect, I was commenting on the rendition as

of today, which shows the weakness in Naftali's voice,

not as it was. I was not being insulting to say that Netanel is nasal, and that his presentation is of choral quality, rather than solo artist. I hope your foot now understands.

[chupp44]

Anglomaven, American maven here...Naftali's voice in his age is right where it should be. You expect him to be the same like 30 years ago? Netanel is a great star in the US and considered one of the best in the world today, maybe all these people who come to listen to him think that his voice, chazzanut, musicality and presentation is of a first class. I enjoy him more that most cantors in the world today

[ANGLOMAVEN]

wHAT A PITY THAT NAFTALI CHOSE A DIFFICULT PIECE WHICH DEMONSTRATES THAT HE HAS PASSED HIS BEST. NETANEL IS A NASAL CHOIRBOY.