From Byzantium to Andalusia: Medieval Music and Poetry
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Composer: Italian AnonymousComposer: Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Anonymous
Composer: Arabic-Andalusian Traditional
Composer: Italian Traditional
Composer: Jewish Traditional
Composer: Lebanese Traditional
Composer: Sephardic Traditional
Composer: Turkish Traditional
Performer: Ensemble Oni Wytars
Performer: Belinda Sykes
Performer: Jeremy Avis
Performer: Peter Rabanser
Edition: Music CD
Audio: Spanish (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-03-21
Music Label: Naxos
Music reviews of From Byzantium to Andalusia: Medieval Music and Poetry
Music Review: nonexpert
Rating: 5 Stars
I am not anyone to comment on the authenticity of this music. I have no idea how accurately it represents Medieval Mediterranean music. It sounds like it does: it sounds the way I might imagine the music of the period.
Regardless, the one thing I am qualified to evaluate is my pleasure listening to it. My favorite track is the first one, the Arab kyrie. Not quite like anything I've ever heard, but I would certainly go to any church where I could hear it.
This CD has helped to whet my appetite for more such music, and I suspect it would do so for anyone. If you are shopping here, I think you should strongly consider buying this one. I would, however, direct you to two other CDs as well (reminding you that I am by no means a knowledgeable person in this field): Sufi music such as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (though there are many other less famous examples, at least as good), and Arab Christian music, especially Marie Keyrouz. If there is a god, that is the music he hears in heaven. But excepting those two sources of superlatively uplifting music, this is among the best CDs I own. At its price, it's too good to miss.
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