Sephardic Songs

Sephardic Songs in the hispano-arabic tradition of medieval Spain

aka Canciones Sefardies de la tradición hispanoárabe en la España medieval (on Sonifolk)
aka Ballads of the Sephardic Jews (on Dorian)
Sarband - Vladimir Ivanoff, dir.
Jaro 4206-2
Sonifolk 21 115
Dorian Recordings DOR-93190

Contents:

Anon., trad., Spain:

1. Ea Judios
   Anon., Morocco (Tetuan):
   Yo en estando
   Juan del Encina, Cancionero musical de Palacio 77:
   Yo m'estava reposando

Anon., Spain, 14th c.:

2. Calvi, Calvi / Rey Don Alonso / Kol libi

Joan Ambrosio Dalza: Intabulatura de Lauto, Libro Quarto

3. Caldibì Castigliano

Anon., Morocco, Turkey, Bosnia, Greece:

4. Porke yorach

Anon., Chansonnier Sevilla, F-Bn nouv. Acq. Fr. 4379.:

5. Cados, Cados

Anon. (music), trad./ Abu Bakr ibn Zuhr al-Hafid (text, arabic) & Don Todros ben Yehudah ha-Levi Abu l'-'Afia:

6. Ayyu-ha s-sãqi / Qum Yêdid nafsi

Alfonso el Sabio (music) / Ibn Quzman (text):

7. Cantiga 47: Virgen Santa Maria, / Ya gawharal galali

Anon. Trad. (Music) / Ibn Sahl (lyrics):

8. Hal darà

Anon., Morocco (Fez) / Spain:

9. Una tarde de verano

Playing time: 49' 14"

Performers: Sarband [Fadia El-Hage (voice), Belinda Sykes (voice, shawms, bagpipes), Mustafa Dogan Dikmen (flute, kudüm, voice), Ihsan Mehmet Özer (kanun), Ahmed Kadri Rizeli (kemençe, percussion), Mehmet Yesilçay (ud, cura, percussion), Axel Weindenfeld (renaissance lute), Vladimir Ivanoff (percussion, ud, renaissance lute)] - Vladimir Ivanoff, dir.

Recording site and date: Beirut, Istanbul, Munich [1994]

Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Diapason (#-p.):
Fanfare ( #-p): 7-72 (mid 1999) (as Sonifolk 21 115)

Comments:
Information from owned CD (Jaro) & Todd McComb (Dorian).
Maybe they are not completely authentic but the result is a pleasure to listen. The content of the CD booklet is very interesting and well done.

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