Jerusalem
Savall Jordi
Jerusalem
Savall Jordi
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”
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