Hesperion XXI – Diáspora Sefardí
Album : Diáspora Sefardí
Performer : Hesperion XXI
Release date : 2000
Label : Alia Vox
Catalog # : AV 9809 A+B
Number of discs : 2
Genre : Judeo-Hispanic
Total size : 147 + 150 MB
Total time : 01:04:23 + 01:05:29
T racks :
Disc1:
1. Por Que Llorax Blanca Niña - Romances Vocales: El Moro De Antequera (Rhodes) 7:04
2. Por Que Llorax Blanca Niña - Romances Vocales: Levantose El Conde Niño (Salónica) 7:45
3. Por Que Llorax Blanca Niña - Romances Vocales: El Rey De Francia (Esmirna) 5:40
4. Por Que Llorax Blanca Niña - Romances Vocales: Por Allí Pasó Un Cavallero (Turquía) 5:21
5. Por Que Llorax Blanca Niña - Romances Vocales: Por Que Llorax Blanca Niña (Sarajevo) 15:20
6. Por Que Llorax Blanca Niña - Romances Vocales: La Guirnalda De Rosas (Rhodes) 4:18
7. Por Que Llorax Blanca Niña - Romances Vocales: Nani, Nani (Marruecos) 13:36
8. Por Que Llorax Blanca Niña - Romances Vocales: El Rey Que Tanto Madruga (Sofía) 5:19
Disc2:
1. Las Estrellas De Los Cielos - Musica Instrumental: Las Estrellas De Los Cielos (Alejandría?) 11:23
2. Las Estrellas De Los Cielos - Musica Instrumental: En La Santa Helena (Sofía) 6:32
3. Las Estrellas De Los Cielos - Musica Instrumental: A La Una Yo Nací (Sarajevo) 3:30
4. Las Estrellas De Los Cielos - Musica Instrumental: Improvisación (Oud & Percusión) 3:55
5. Las Estrellas De Los Cielos - Musica Instrumental: Paxarico Tu Te Llamas (Sarajevo) 5:11
6. Las Estrellas De Los Cielos - Musica Instrumental: Yo Era Niña De Casa Alta (Esmirna) 1:52
7. Las Estrellas De Los Cielos - Musica Instrumental: Longe De Mit Tu Estarás (Sofía) 8:21 $0.89
8. Las Estrellas De Los Cielos - Musica Instrumental: Hermoza Muchachica (Jerusalén) 5:12
9. Las Estrellas De Los Cielos - Musica Instrumental: Axerico De Quinze Años (Salónica?) 10:26
10. Las Estrellas De Los Cielos - Musica Instrumental: Improvisación Sobre "Axerico" (Sarod & Percusión) 9:06
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The Sephardic Jews, scattered through the world after their expulsion from Spain in 1492, kept alive for centuries not only their language, Ladino, but an extraordinary repertory of "folk" songs, many of them quite sophisticated. As Ladino culture began to slowly fade away over the course of the 20th century, musicologists collected and transcribed these melodies from Ladino-speaking communities in Sarajevo, Sofia, Salonika, Smyrna, Jerusalem, and other cities. Beginning in the 1970s, these extraordinary songs were revived (to considerable excitement) for concert audiences--a revival sparked in large part by a 1976 recording by Hesperion XX. This now-legendary early music ensemble, renamed Hesperion XXI for the new century, has returned to the music of the Sephardic Diaspora with this beautifully produced and packaged release. Disc 1 contains eight songs performed lovingly by the magnetic Montserrat Figueras (who sings with an appropriately unstudied tone). The second disc includes eight more melodies performed instrumentally; the choice of instruments reflects the influence of the Muslim-ruled areas where the Sephardim settled with the oud, rebab, and qanun (Middle Eastern equivalents of the lute, fiddle, and dulcimer) performing alongside harps, lutes, flutes, and frame drums. (Inexplicably, however, the final track of this second CD--an improvisation for the sarod and tabla--sounds nice but feels completely foreign to the theme of this release.) It may have been more effective programming to mingle the vocal and instrumental tracks across the two CDs rather than segregating them.
--Matthew Westphal
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