https://youtu.be/75VcDFd-KmQWhen it comes to the Kedusha, the Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi tradition acquits itself with elegance, and almost always with dispatch - barring some notable exceptions in the Meester Visserplein. This can contrast quite starkly with the Ashkenazi rite, where ‘Nekadesh Et Shimcha Ba’olam’ can take as long for the chazen and choir to perform as a movement of a Beethoven symphony.The standard Spanish and Portuguese Shabbat chant for the Kedusha falls into the category of simple non-metric recitative and is common to Amsterdam, London and New York with just minor melodic differences.In all three communities this melody is also sung in Mincha, though with one arresting difference. In London, as in Shachrit, it is sung by the Hazzan, while in Amsterdam and New York, probably because there is no Hazara in those communities, it is sung by the Kahal.The keen-eared listener will have noticed that the Mincha version in Shearith Israel (sung on weekdays as well as Shabbat) is more condensed than its Shabbat morning counterpart. This is the result of what would have been Newton’s fourth law, had he given the matter any thought. I.e. the irresistible pressure on melodies to become clipped and compressed when subject to the forces of congregational singing.The present recording is of the London variant, in which I have tried to replicate the practice of the choir spontaneously harmonising with the Hazzan.H/T to Daniël Baruch, Binyamin Behar, Nachshon Rodrigues Pereira and Zachary Edinger for answering my questions.Please share.