Catalogue # AVSA9863

A pilgrimage through Middle Eastern faiths and traditions by the world’s leading early music exponent. ‘An affirmation of humanity’ (BBC Music Magazine)

This exquisitely packaged set comprises a glossy hardback book and two hybrid Super Audio CDs. It documents a once-in-a-lifetime concert dedicated to Jerusalem, with Jewish, Arab and Christian musicians boldly threading together musical traditions under the direction of Jordi Savall, the world’s leading early music performer. Both the music and words are moving beyond description.

Jerusalem City of the two peaces: Heavenly peace and Earthly peace

CD 1

Fanfare of Jericho, 1200 av. B.C.

I Heavenly Peace:The Prophets of the Apocalypse and of the Last Judgment

2 The Sibylline Oracles (3rd century B.C.)

Jewish sources, Aramaic music

3 Introduction (Ney & percussion)

4 The Koran: Bismi Al.là ar Rahman (7th Century)

Fatihah Sura I, 2-7. Sufi sources

5 Postludium (qanun)

6 Revelation VI, 12-3 Audi pontus (12th century)

corresponding to the Cathar Gospel of Pseudo-John V

7 Postludium (medieval harp)

II Jerusalem, Jewish city, 1000 BC-AD 70

King David makes Jerusalem the capital of the unified kingdom of Judah and Israel

8 Shofars call

9 Prayer for Jerusalem

10 Instrumental dance

Liberation of the city by Maccabeans, 164 B.C.

11 The Peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122) - The Psalms of King David (10th Century B.C.)

12 Rabbi Akiva goes to Jerusalem Talmud, Makkot 24b

13 Song of Exile (Psalm 137, 1-6)

Destruction of the Temple and Diaspora,A.D. 70

14 Instrumental lament (shofars)

III Jerusalem, a Christian city, 326 - 1244

15 Stavrotheotokia

(Hymn to the Virgin at the foot of the Cross)

Attributed to Emperor Leo VI, 886-912

Queen Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine is in Jerusalem,A.D. 326

16 Fanfare “Pax in nomine Domine”

17 Pope Urban II, First call to the Crusade, 1095

Recited text in French

18 Crusaders’ song: Pax in nomine Domini

Marcabru (1100-1150) - 1st Crusade

19 Crusaders’ song: Chevalier, mult estes guaritz, 1146

Anonymous 12th Century - 2nd Crusade

20 Conductus : O totius Asie - Anonymous (s. XIII)

21 Planctus “ Pax in Nomine Domini ”

The Crusaders lose Jerusalem to Saladin Instrumental

Iva Jerusalem, a city of pilgrimage, 383 - 1326

22 The Dome of the Rock - Ibn Battuta (1304-ca.1377)

23 Zionida: Beautiful city, delight of the world

Judah Ha-Levy (1075-1141)

CD 2

IVb Jerusalem, city of pilgrimage, 383 - 1326

Cantiga de Santa Maria: Offondo do mar tan châo

Alfonso X the Wise (1121-1284) CSM383

V Jerusalem,Arabic & Ottoman city, 1244-1917

Arabic city, 1244 - 1516

2 Prelude (Oud)

3 The Koran, Sura XVII, 1-Mohammed ascends to heaven from the Temple Mount

4 Danse of the Soma

5 Sallatu Allah - Arabic tradition

Ottoman city, 1517 - 1917

6 Makam Uzäl Sakil “Turna”

Ottoman mss. of Kantemiroglu (17th century)

7 Suleyman the Magnificent’s dream, 1520 legend

Recited text in Turkish

8 Warrior’s march (Anonymous Ottoman)

The Ottoman Conquest of Jerusalem, 1517

VI Jerusalem, Land of Refuge & Exile, 15-20thC

9 Palestina hermoza y Santa - Anonymous Sephardic

10 Palestinian Lament - Anonymous

11 Andouni Armenian Lament, 1915 - Anonymous

12 El male rahamim (Hymn to the victims of Auschwitz),

1941 Historical recording by Shlomo Katz, 1950

13 Funeral March Instrumental

VII Earthly peace: a duty and a utopia.A plea for peace

14 Instrumental Dialogue

15 A plea for peace in Arabic

16 Adonay Prayer for peace in Hebrew

17 A plea for peace in Armenian

18 Da Pacem (Gregorian)

Dialogue of songs

19 Apo xeno meros (in Greek) - Anonym (Oral Tradition)

20 Ghazal (in Arabic)

21 Ghazal (in Hebrew)

22 Ghazal (Palestine)

23 Siente Hermosa (ladino)

24 Apo xeno meros (in Greek) Gregorian Chorus

25 Durme, hermoza donzella (ladino)

26 Ghazal (in Arabic, Greek & Hebrew)

27 Ghazal (instrumental, Morocco)

28 Final Ensemble (tutti)

29 Final fanfare “Against the barriers of the Spirit”