| Diáspora SefardÃ: Romances & Música Instrumental |  | Artists: Montserrat Figueras, Jordi Savall
Creator: Hespèrion XXI
Label: Alia Vox Spain
Category: Music
List Price: $47.98
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Sales Rank: 145,919
Format: Import
Languages: English (Unknown), Spanish (Original Language)
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.6
UPC: 713746141424
EAN: 0713746141424
ASIN: B00004RBWV
Release Date: March 14, 2000
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | El Moro De Antequera | | • | Levantose El Conde Nino | | • | El Rey De Francia | | • | Por Alli Paso Un Cavallero | | • | Por Que Llorax Blanca Nina | | • | La Guirnalda De Rosas | | • | Nani Nani | | • | El Rey Que Tanto Madruga |
Disc 2
| • | Las Estrellas De Los Cielos | | • | En La Santa Helena | | • | A La Una Yo Naci | | • | Improvisacion | | • | Paxarico Tu Te Llamas | | • | Yo Era Nina De Casa Alta | | • | Longe De Mi Tu Estaras | | • | Hermoza Muchachica | | • | Axerico De Quinze Anos | | • | Improvisacion Sobre 'Axerico' |
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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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