Bal-kan : miel et sang : les cycles de la vie = honey and blood : cycles of life.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Savall, Jordi, performer.

Hespèrion XXI (Musical group), performer.

Language:

Bosnian

Bulgarian

Catalan

English

French

German

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Hebrew

Hungarian

Italian

Ladino

Romanian

Serbian

Spanish

Turkish

Subjects (All):

Folk music--Balkan Peninsula.

Folk music.

Music.

Balkan Peninsula.

Music--Balkan Peninsula.

Romanies--Music.

Romanies.

Sephardim--Music.

Sephardim.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Music.

Physical Description:

3 audio discs (233 min.) ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (612 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm)

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Miel et sang : les cycles de la vie

Cycles de la vie

Bal-kan : honey and blood : cycles of life

Honey and blood : cycles of life

Cycles of life

At head of title: Voix de la mémoire = Voices of memory

Voix de la mémoire : Bal-kan

Voices of memory : Bal-kan

Place of Publication:

Bellaterra : AliaVox, [2013]

Language Note:

Sung in Bosnian, Bulgarian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Ladino, Romanian, Serbian, and Turkish.

System Details:

Hybrid super audio CD (SACD), multi-channel stereo: "can be played on any standard compact disc player."

digital stereo

audio file CD audio SACD

Contents:

cd1: Création : univers, rencontres & désirs = Creation : universe, encounters & desires: Tzigan nota : Romani-style improvisation (5:29)

Alef, mem, shin : Jewish chant on the Cabala / text, 9th century Jewish ; music, "Vido venir tus cavallero" (6:52)

Taksim & Marche ottomane / mss. Dimitrie Cantemir 209 (4:02)

Emina : song from Bosnia / text, Aleksa Šantić (8:08)

Doina olteniasca ; Hora láutareascá (Romania) (6:12)

Kadona sedi v bachona = Kadona is sitting the in orchard : song from the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria (5:26)

Tillirkotissa : Cypriot song (3:28)

cd1 (continued): Printemps : naissance, rêves & célébrations = Spring : birth, dreams & celebrations: Egy veleg : song and dance in the style of the Budapest Romani (8:15)

Lullabies (Romanian). Hajda lilibe = Dance ; Fúdd el jó szél = Blow, sweet wind ; Szundi szundi virágszál = Sleep, my darling / Yiddish tune ; translated into Hungarian by Sándor Kányádi (5:00)

Taksim & Gulubovska ruchenica : Thracian dance (4:24)

Milo mou kai mandarini = My apple, my mandarin : song from Greece (3:39)

Küçüksu 'da gördüm seni = I saw you in Küçüksu / Tanburi Mustafa Çavuş (3:55)

Moma e moma rodila = A maiden bore a maiden : song from the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria (4:48)

Vrcavo kolo (Serbia) / arranged, Bora Dugić (2:29)

Dui dui, demonori : Romani song, Romania (6:26)

cd2: Été : rencontres, amour & mariage = Summer : encounters, love & marriage: Zapjevata sojka ptika = A jaybird is singing : song from Bosnia ; Ramizem = My Ramiza : song from Turkey (4:25)

Doãna olteniasca (Romani, Romania) (3:44)

Wedding songs. Segélj el uram isten = Help us, Lord ; Dunna, dunna, tarka dunna = Blanket, colourful blanket : Romani songs, Hungary (3:52)

Selfo : clarinet improvisation (Albania and Greece) (3:53)

Godini ludi mladi = Oh my wild young years : (Macedonian) song from Bulgaria (5:22)

Gidem dedim aman = I said I would leave : hicaz : folksong from Rumelia (1:46)

Hermoza muchachica = Beautiful maid : Sephardic song and improvisations (4:01)

Koniali = Girl from Konya : song from Greece and Turkey (3:41)

cd2 (continued): Automne : mémoire, maturité & voyage = Autumn : memory, maturity & journey: Elment a két lány virágot szedni = Two girls went to pick some flowers : ballad, 14th century Hungary (4:02)

Dök Zülfünü meyoana gel = Let down your tresses and ride to town / Tanburi Mustafa Çavuş ; lyrics by Hifzi (4:25)

Intro & Slivensko paidushko horo (Central Thrace, Bulgaria) (5:41)

Yasemi mou = My jasmine : love song, Cyprus (4:40)

Remembering Dijon (Serbia) / Bora Dugić (3:39)

De man daje mol te piau = Mother, give me wine : Romani song, Romania (6:54)

A csitari hegyek alatt : Romani instrumental (3:46)

Ah! što ćemo ljubav kriti? = Why do we have to hide our love? : song from Bosnia (9:35)

cd3: Hiver : spiritualité, sacrifice, exil & mort = Winter : spirituality, sacrifice, exile & death: Et sharey ratzon = When the portals of grace open / Rabbi Judah ben-Samuel ibn Abbas (6:37)

Serbian pot-pourri : Stani, stani Ibar vodo / Dragiša Nedović ; arranged, Bora Dugić (8:25)

Taksim & Gazel : vocal improvisation in the Ottoman style / lyrics by Fuzuli (5:01)

Zaplakala e vdovitsa = A widow was weeping : song from Bulgaria (3:43)

Hung-Rom Tzig-Tzigan nota (Romani, Romania) (5:22)

Sarhoş = Drunkard : song from Cyprus in Turkish ; Ime tze = A tinker by trade : song from Cyprus in Greek (3:22)

Pastirska elegija (Serbia) / arranged Bora Dugić, Jordi Savall (3:36)

Danse urbaine (Serbia) / arranged Bora Dugić (1:33)

Kradem ti se u večeri = I visit you secretly in the evening : song from Bosnia (5:16)

Taksim : accordion improvisation (Serbia) (2:25)

Ben bir göçmen kızı = I saw an immigrant's daughter : song from Rumelia / Fethiye İşçiler, Havva Karakaş (4:23)

Midnight elegy (Serbia) / Bora Dugić (3:26)

Fehér galamb = A white dove : funeral lament (Hungarian, from Romania/Transylvania, Búza) (2:42)

Shuvi nav shi = Oh my soul : Sephardic song / Yossef ibn Sulai (5:56)

Plainte de l'exil : duduk improvisation (Armenia) (3:27)

cd3 (continued): (Ré)conciliation = (Re)conciliation: Torah (Hebrew) (1:55)

Apo xeno meros = From a foreign, far-off land (Greece) (1:24)

Üsküdar (Turkey) / lyrics by Fuzuli (1:17)

Ruse kose = Golden hair (Central Serbia) (1:53)

Durme hermosa donzella = Sleep, my beautiful girl : Sephardic lullaby (3:11)

Instrumental tsigane : lent-rapide (Romani) (1:53)

Tutti : lent-rapide (2:19).

Participant:

Hespèrion XXI ; with, variously, Stoimenka Outchikova-Nedyalkova, Amira Medunjanin, Agi Szalóki, Irini Derebei, Meral Azizoğlu, Marc Mauillon, Lior Elmaleh, Gürsoy Dinçer, Tcha Limberger, Zacharias Spyridakis, vocals ; Gyula Csik, cymbalum ; Bora Dugić, frula ; Yair Dalal, Yurdal Tocan, oud ; Hakan Güngör, kanun ; Nedyalko Nedyalkov, kaval ; Dimitri Psonis, santur, saz, lafta, guitare morisque ; Moslem Rahal, ney ; Tcha Limberger, violin ; Zacharias Spyridakis, lyre grecque ; additional musicians ; Jordi Savall, conductor, rebab, lyre d'archet, dessus de viole.

Notes:

"Dialogue of the music of the peoples of the Balkans and the [Romani] and Sephardic diasporas"--Page 64.

Title from disc labels.

Recorded Collegiale de Cardona and Sant Pere de Casserres Monastery, Spain January 7-11, September 2-3 and 7-8, 2013.

Recorded live Cité de la Musique, Paris June 13, 2013.

Accompanying book contains program notes in Bulgarian, Catalan, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Serbian, and Turkish; and song texts with Catalan, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations.

ISBN:

9788494138546

8494138545

OCLC:

882931079

Publisher Number:

AVSA9902 AliaVox