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Album Summary
Performers
Jordi Savall (Vielle)- Jordi Savall (Rebab)
- Dimitris Psonis (Saz)
- Khaled Arman (Rebab)
- Pedro Estevan (Percussion)
- Jordi Savall (Percussion)
- Jordi Savall (Bass Viola da gamba)
- Siar Hashimi (Tabla)
- Pedro Estevan (Bendir)
- Driss El Maloumi (Oud)
- Dimitris Psonis (Santur)
- Yair Dalal (Oud)
Notes & Reviews:
On his new release 'Orient-Occident,' Jordi Savall presents a fascinating dialogue between instrumental music from ancient Christian, Jewish and Muslim Spain, from medieval Italy and Morocco, from Israel, from Persian Afghanistan and from the Ottoman Empire. It provides the listener an opportunity to appreciate the numerous relationships that exist between these Mediterranean cultures that at times all appear to clash. Featuring liner notes by the writer Amin Maalouf, this well-researched album groups together the best musicians from today's performers of ancient Western and traditional Oriental music.
"Recorded sound and packaging are up to Alia Vox's usual high standard. This is a rich feast indeed for music lovers of all persuasions." -International Record Review
"While some of the pieces could almost have emanated from the Celtic fringe, others speak from the deep heart of Islam. There are some wonderfully eloquent oud and santur solos, and much implied counterpoint lurking beneath the monody which was then the norm." -BBC Music Magazine ****
"Finding the common ground that can symbolise a shared humanity has been the impulse for Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said's West East Divan Orchestra and, more recently, violinist Daniel Hope's East Meets West collaboration.Yet for some 30 years, Catalan early music guru Jordi Savall has embodied precisely the same ideals with his ensemble Hespèrion XXI.Their Orient-Occident project creates a flowing dialogue of music from Christian, Jewish and Muslim traditions and medieval times, when the Mediterranean helped to link rather than divide cultures. Hespèrion's performances may be the result of painstaking scholarship, but it is not so much the dust of medieval manuscripts as that of the desert that makes these latterday troubadours so compelling. Savall's virtuosity is so understated as to risk being taken for granted, but the defining rhythmic discipline, the mutual understanding that permits brief flights of improvisational fancy, has a powerful effect. Prayers, dances and laments seemed to bubble up from the same wellspring of experience, voice and instruments echoing each other in assent, crossing great divides" -The Guardian ****
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Works Details
Anonymous, Turkish : Makam Rast "Murass'a" usul Düyek, traditional melody (Ms. de Kantemiroglu) - Performers: Pedro Estevan (Bendir); Driss El Maloumi (Oud); Dimitris Psonis (Santur); Yair Dalal (Oud); Jordi Savall (Vielle)
- Running Time: 4 min. 40 sec.
Sabio, Alfonso el : Work(s) :: Ductia (Cantigas 248-353) - Performers: Dimitris Psonis (Santur); Driss El Maloumi (Oud); Jordi Savall (Rebab)
- Running Time: 3 min. 43 sec.
- Period Time: Medieval
- Form: Vocal
- Written: 12th Century
Traditional, Sephardic : A la una yo nací (Sarajevo) - Performers: Dimitris Psonis (Saz); Driss El Maloumi (Oud); Yair Dalal (Oud); Jordi Savall (Vielle)
- Running Time: 3 min. 56 sec.
- Form: Vocal
Traditional, Spanish : Alba (Castelló de la Plana) - Performer: Jordi Savall (Rebab)
- Running Time: 2 min. 39 sec.
Maloumi, Driss El : Danse de l'âme, for oud & bendir - Performers: Driss El Maloumi (Oud); Pedro Estevan (Bendir)
- Running Time: 4 min. 33 sec.
Anonymous, Italian : La Manfredina - Performers: Pedro Estevan (Bendir); Jordi Savall (Vielle)
- Running Time: 2 min. 34 sec.
- Written: 13th Century
Arman, Khaled : Laïli Djân (Afghanistan Perse), for traditional ensemble - Performers: Dimitris Psonis (Santur); Driss El Maloumi (Oud); Khaled Arman (Rebab)
- Running Time: 4 min. 7 sec.
Anonymous : Istampita In Pro - Performer: Jordi Savall (Vielle)
- Running Time: 8 min. 21 sec.
- Written: 13th Century
Anonymous : Danza del viento - Performers: Pedro Estevan (Percussion); Jordi Savall (Vielle); Driss El Maloumi (Oud); Dimitris Psonis (Saz)
- Running Time: 3 min. 4 sec.
Anonymous, Italian : Saltarello no 1 (GB-LBl Add.29987) - Performer: Jordi Savall (Vielle)
- Running Time: 2 min. 29 sec.
- Period Time: Medieval
- Written: 1340-1400
Psonis, Dimitris : Chahamezrab (Perse), for santur & tamburello - Performer: Dimitris Psonis (Santur)
- Running Time: 3 min. 36 sec.
Traditional, Spanish : Danza de las espadas - Performers: Dimitris Psonis (Santur); Driss El Maloumi (Oud); Jordi Savall (Vielle)
- Running Time: 1 min. 51 sec.
Anonymous, Turkish : Makam Nikriz üsul Berevsân, traditional melody (Ms. de Kantemiroglu) - Performers: Jordi Savall (Percussion); Jordi Savall (Bass Viola da gamba)
- Running Time: 3 min. 34 sec.
Anonymous, Italian : Saltarello no 1 (GB-LBl Add.29987) - Performers: Jordi Savall (Rebab); Driss El Maloumi (Oud); Dimitris Psonis (Santur)
- Running Time: 2 min. 29 sec.
- Period Time: Medieval
- Written: 1340-1400
Dalal, Yair : Ya Nabat Elrichan - Magam Lami, for oud - Performer: Yair Dalal (Oud)
- Running Time: 3 min. 37 sec.
Sabio, Alfonso el : Cantiga de Santa María 105, Gran piadad' e mercee e nobreza :: Rotundellus - Performers: Jordi Savall (Rebab); Dimitris Psonis (Saz); Driss El Maloumi (Oud)
- Running Time: 2 min. 45 sec.
- Period Time: Medieval
- Form: Vocal
- Written: 12th Century
Anonymous, Turkish : Makam Rast Semâ'i, traditional melody (Ms. de Kantemiroglu) - Performers: Yair Dalal (Oud); Pedro Estevan (Bendir); Jordi Savall (Vielle); Dimitris Psonis (Santur); Driss El Maloumi (Oud)
- Running Time: 2 min. 14 sec.
Anonymous, Italian : Lamento di Tristano, estampie - Performer: Jordi Savall (Vielle)
- Running Time: 4 min. 57 sec.
- Period Time: Medieval
- Written: 1340-1400
Arman, Khaled : Molâ Mâmad Djân (Afganistan Perse), for traditional ensemble - Performers: Dimitris Psonis (Santur); Siar Hashimi (Tabla); Driss El Maloumi (Oud); Khaled Arman (Rebab)
- Running Time: 5 min. 7 sec.
Sabio, Alfonso el : Work(s) :: Saltarello (Cantigas 77-119) - Performers: Dimitris Psonis (Saz); Driss El Maloumi (Oud); Jordi Savall (Vielle)
- Running Time: 2 min. 28 sec.
- Period Time: Medieval
- Form: Vocal
- Written: 12th Century
Anonymous, Turkish : Makam 'Uzäl Sakil "Turna", traditional melody (Ms. de Kantemiroglu) - Performers: Dimitris Psonis (Santur); Driss El Maloumi (Oud); Pedro Estevan (Percussion); Jordi Savall (Vielle); Khaled Arman (Rebab)
- Running Time: 3 min. 44 sec.
