Les croisades sous le regard de l'Orient

Les croisades sous le regard de l'Orient - The Crusades seen through the eyes of the Orient
Arab music and poetry from the time of the Crusades
Ensemble Al-Kindî - Julian Jalâl Eddine Weiss
Le Chant du Monde 5741118.19 [CDx2]

Contents:

    CD 1 - Wasla Maqam Bayati & Husseyni

  1. Instrumental prelude
  2. Improvisation on the qânûn
    Laqad fatanatni farandjiyya [I am dazzled by a Frankish woman] (Ibn al-Qayçarânî)
    Lâ çabra lî - [I am losing patience before the glow of a fine moon] (Ousâma Ibn al-Mounqidh)
    Wâhan li-laylin khiltouni - [What a sweet-scented night] (Ousâma Ibn al-Mounqidh)
  3. Instrumental suite: Nawakht Hindi - Aqsçaq - Maçmoudi çaghir - Yourouk
  4. Hal alâ al-astâr [Can I find a protector?]
    Badat min al-khidr [She appeared behind the veil]
  5. Improvisation on the oud
  6. Instrumental prelude
    Ijma'ou bi-l-qourb shamli [Quick, let's get together!]
  7. Improvisation on the qânûn
  8. Vocal and instrumentsl improvisations:
    Idha aqbalat [When she appears] (Ibn al-Qayçarânî)
    A barqoun badâ [Is that a stroke of lightning coming...?] (Ibn al-Fârid)
    Khala al-idhar [I have forgotten all modesty]
  9. Ma atyaba ma bita ma'an [How sweet was the night we spent together] (Ibn al-Fârid)
  10. Instrumental samaï and taqsim
    Ayya mouradi [Come now, o thou]
  11. Talafata azzabyou [The gazelle glanced at me]
  12. Mahboubi qaçad nakadi [My beloved is trying to bother me]

    CD 2 - Wasla Maqam Hijaz

  1. Saqâ Dimashqa [God watered Damascus] (Ibn Mounir Al-Taraboulsi)
  2. Instrumental suite: Samaü - Sadah Douyak et Maçmoudi - Mourabbâ - Nawakht - Moukhammas - Maçmoudi Kabir - Yorouk Samaï
  3. Improvisation on a plucked fiddle
  4. Fi-ka koull ma ara ahsan [All that is beautiful is in you]
  5. Sall Fi-na al-lahdha [She darted a glance at me]
    Zabyoun tagharou [The sun looks jealously at this gazelle's beauty] (Ousama Ibn al-Mounqidh)
    Kashafa al-gharam [Passion has stirred the lover's nostalgia] (Ibn al-Farîd)
  6. Ma ihtiyali [What ruse can I employ]
  7. Improvisation on the flute
  8. Ya rîmou qoumi [Rim, arise now, don't tarry] (al-Sanawbari)
  9. Instrumental
    Hajarni [She has abandoned me]
  10. Ahwa al-ghazal [I love the gazelle]
    'Unq al-malih maqam ijaz [The stroke of the beloved]

Playing time: CD 1: 71' 54" - CD 2: 65' 23"

Performers:
Ensemble Al-Kindî - Julian Jalâl Eddine Weiss, dir.
Omar Sarmini (voice), Julian Jalâl Eddine Weiss (qânûn), Ziyâd Qâdî Amin (panpipe [nây]), Muhammad Qadri Dalal (oud), Adel Shams Eddine (tambourine [riqq]), Mohammad Gomar Al-Bawi (rebec [joza]), Hicham Al-Khatib (Moroccan square drum [douff]), Maher Moudalal (voice), Aboulala Dalal (voice)

Recording site and date:
Studio Cargo, Paris, France [01/2001];
Rel. 2001

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Jorge Salazar