Series about and with Catalan gambist and conductor Jordi Savall, part 56. The ‘Orient-Occident II, Hommage a la Syrie’ CD.
The ‘Orient-Occident II, Hommage a la Syrie’ CD contains recordings that Savall recently made on the occasion of the civil war in Syria that has been going on for almost three years now.
This is a sequel to the 2006 CD ‘Orient-Occident 1200-1700’, with a mix of Persian, Algerian, Ottoman, Moroccan, Iraqi, Sephardic, Italian and Spanish music.
Lebanon, Zaki Naseef (1918-2004)
1. Ahla Zahra
Syria
2. Samai Maqam Bayati
Text trad. / music Mustapha Kreideh
3. O Aube Ya fajr
Anonymous
4. Mawal Sap’awi, ‘Ala Al-‘Aqiqa, Beiny Wa Beinak
Anonymous Italy (13th century)
5. Istampitta Isabella
Trad. Syria
6. Ce Brun Hal Asmar
Anonymous Italy (13th century)
7. Trotto
Trad. Syrië
8. Ya Mariam El Bekr
9. Ghazal
Cantigas de Santa Maria (Spain, 13th century)
10. Cantiga 41: Virgen, madre de nostro Sennor
Sephardic, Israel
11. Hija Mia – Et dodim kala
Spain, Sephardic
12. Una pastora
Hespèrion XXI led by Jordi Savall
(AV 9900, 2013)