Mediterranea
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Composer: AnonymousComposer: Maronite Chant
Composer: P. Landfranchi
Composer: Albanian Traditional
Composer: American Traditional
Composer: Arabic-Andalusian Traditional
Composer: French Traditional
Composer: Greek Traditional
Composer: Israeli Traditional
Composer: Italian Traditional
Composer: Sardinian Traditional
Composer: Spanish Traditional
Performer: Savina Yannatou
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2000-08-15
Music Label: Sounds True Direct
Soundtracks:
- Why Little Bird Do you Not Sing
- You On A Hill, I On A Hilll
- Pinguli Pinguli Giuvacchinu/The Door
- The Girl From Nuoro
- Sardinian Dance
- Gentle Hand
- When The Lissome Girl Appeared
- Glory To The Word Of God
- The Jasmine
- Smyrnaean Air
- In The Beautiful Bygone Days
- Dawn Has Broken
- And A Mother
- Lullaby
- The Boatmen
- La Finforletta
- O, Wave
- God Has Afflicted Me/Why Little Bird Do You Not Sing
Music reviews of Mediterranea
Music Review: Comment on "Gemçis Güzel Günerli" and more
Rating: 5 Stars
First off, this is the best Savina Yannatou CD I've heard to date -- her voice is in terrific form here. (Though you'll get to hear a lot more of the band on her latest release, Sumiglia.)
Second, track 11 ("Gemçis Güzel Günerli") *is* a Turkish song, written by an Aremenian citizen of Turkey, Hrant Kenkulian, or "Udi Hrant," as he's often known -- this is mentioned in the liner notes to Mediterranea. ("Udi" is an honorific prefix meaning that he was a master player of the ud, a Middle Eastern lute.) If you're interested in exploring his music further, there are several recordings of his work (voice, ud, and violin) on the Traditional Crossroads label. (Type "Udi Hrant" into the search engine on this site and you'll find the CDs very easily.)
Turkey was -- and still is -- an ethnically mixed country, which is a legacy of the Ottoman Empire. There were Armenian Turkish composers and musicians at the courts of the Ottoman sultans, and there were those who also excelled at light classical and popular song. Hrant Kenkulian was a master of classical and popular music -- if you explore further, you'll find out that he's one of many 20th-century Armenians who were involved in the development of Turkish music.
Yannatou is an inheritor of Turkish tradition, too. Modern Greece was occupied by the Ottomans for many centuries, and there is a very strong Turkish tinge to much of the Greek music she performs. (And vice versa, as she performs Pontic Greek music from the Black Sea coast of Turkey; also songs from Smyrna -- now called Izmir -- on Turkey's western coast.)
What I love most about her work is her peerless way with all of the songs she chooses. Many people have tried to come up with pan-Mediterranean discs, but Yannatou is one of a handful of people who has succeeded at it.
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