Series about and with Catalan gambist and conductor Jordi Savall. Today, we focus on the double CD ‘Diáspora Sefardí’.
In 1999, AliaVox released a double CD titled ‘Diáspora Sefardí’. On this CD, Jordi Savall gathered vocal and instrumental music belonging to the tradition of the Sephardic Jews round the Mediterranean Sea. Driven away from Spain, and spreading over Europe and North Africa, they preserved much of their language and culture for a long time.
Here in the Netherlands, in Amsterdam to be exact, we still have a Portuguese synagogue, and we come across their family names.
Anonymous (Sephardic)
1 El moro de Antequera
2 Las estrellas de los cielos
3 El Rey de Francia
4 En la santa Helena
5 Por alli pasó un cavallero
6 Levantose el Conde Niño
7 Hermoza muchachica
8 La Guirnalda de rosas
Supplement:
9 Paxarico tu te llamas
Montserrat Figueras, soprano. Hespèrion XXI conducted by Jordi Savall
(2CD Diáspora Sefardí CD AV9809 A+B)
Special thanks to PIAS/Harmonia Mundi, Amsterdam.
