La Música de Al-Andalus

Ensemble Al-Ruzafa

Conductor: Hames Bitar

Aleppo: custody of the musical tradition from the Orient.   Aleppo is an important trading city and communication cross-point where the most pure traditions of Arabic chant have been preserved. The most characteristic expression of this chant is the vocal improvisations or layali, through which the complete doctrine of maqam was developed into a form of choral music, the qad (alqudud in plural), related to the muaxaha genre, very well-known in Al-Andalus.   From the eighteenth century onwards, the muaxaha expanded through the Mid-Orient, particularly in Aleppo, where it is known ...+ info

Andalucía en la Música Judeo-Española

Alia Musica

Conductor: Miguel Sánchez

ANDALUCÍA EN LA MÚSICA JUDEOESPAÑOLA   En su acepción estricta, el término sefardí se aplica para designar a los judíos oriundos de España, es decir, los descendientes de los expulsados a finales del siglo XV que han conservado a lo largo del tiempo rasgos culturales hispánicos. En el reducido ámbito del hogar familiar o en las reuniones y celebraciones festivas, sociales y religiosas, ha ido tomando cuerpo, después de la expulsión y fuera de la Península, el repertorio que hoy conocemos como m&u...+ info

Yo que soy contrabandista

Ernesto Palacios

THE SONGS OF MANUEL GARCIA Manuel del Pópulo Vicente García can only be considered a legend in his own time. A nineteenth century legend in the widest sense of the word. A century and a half ago, the stars of the Italian bel canto (both composers and singers), the German symphonic and Polish and Bohemian piano schools were highly revered and it was in Paris that they consummated their international acclaim. However in the Paris of the 1830's, Spanish music was also revered, and, in general, all that originated in Spain's period of fiery Romanticism. Paris was also where the Sev...+ info