Ninna Nanna: Lullabies (1500-2002)
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Performer: William ByrdConductor: Manuel de Falla
Orchestra: Modest Mussorgsky
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2003-02-11
Music Label: Alia Vox Spain
Soundtracks:
- Anon. (Purtugal): Cancao de embalar: Jose embala o menino
- Anon. (England): Lullaby: My little sweet darling
- Anon. (Greece): Berceuse: Dors mon bebe
- Anon. (Sefarade): Berceuse Ladino: Nani, nani
- Anon. Berbere: Berceuse Amazigh
- William Byrd: Lullaby: Come, pretty babe
- Tarquino Merula: Canzonetta spirituale sopra la nanna: Hor ch'e tempo di dormire
- Anon. (Alicante): Mareta, mareta no'm faces plorar
- Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814): Chanson d'une maleureuse mere: Dorsmon enfant
- Modest Mussorgsky: La Chambre des enfants (1870): Avec la poupee
- Anon (Israel): Berceuse hebraique: Noumi, noumi yaldati
- Arvo Part: Berceuse de Noel (2002)
- Max Reger (1873-1916): Maria Wiegenlied: Maria sitzt am Rosenhag
- Manual de Falla (1876-1946): Nana: Duermete, nino, duerme. Canciones populares (1914)
- Darius Milhaud: Berceuse hebraique: Dors, dors (1925)
- Federico Garcia Lorca: Nana de Sevilla: Este galapaguito (1930)
- Arvo Part: Berceuse Estonienne: Kuus, kuus kallike (2002)
- Anon. Catalogne: Cancao de Bressol: La mare d e Deu
Music reviews of Ninna Nanna: Lullabies (1500-2002)
Music Review: An exquisite gem of a desert island CD
Rating: 5 Stars
Every time I catch sight of a Vox Alia CD with its distinctive packaging I find resistance is futile and I end up buying it. This gorgeous collection of lullabies delivered much more than I had ever dreamt possible.
What gives this CD its magic is the fact that this is music making amongst friends and family. In fact the record label is Jordi Savall's own, Monserat Figueras is his wife, and Arianna Savall his daughter - so it really is an all family affair. The whole of Hesperion XXI play like they know each other intimately and we are just privileged eavesdroppers who were lucky enough to have overheard them. If some of the major record labels are increasingly marketing their music like MacDonalds hamburgers then this is like being invited to dine at a lovely family run Spanish restaurant. There is a heartwarming homeliness here the majors could never emulate in a hundred years. So it is entirely appropriate that this should be a collection of lullabies, for this is a celebration of family intimacy of the most deeply poetic and affectionate kind.
The selection of music might strike a casual listener as being unusual - exotic is a better term - yet they are all so instantly attractive that I think this would make a lovely gift (especially given the beautiful booklet that comes with it) to a child, a mother, a partner, a friend, a music lover; even people who know nothing about the composers here would surely be enchanted. I was particularly delighted by the reviewer who wrote that her daughter listened to this at night - oh, how fortunate it would be to grow up with music like this with its imaginatively chosen collection of music from so many countries and centuries - you would carry this music in your heart for the rest of your life! Amongst the songs is a Greek song, a Catalan song, a 16th century English song, a song by William Byrd, Max Reger, Moussorgsky as well as two by Arvo Part, both of which carry dedications to Monserat Figueras, Arianna and Jordi Savall (in the photograph reproductions of the first pages of the handwritten score Arvo Part has written in German 'gewidmet an...' if you were wondering where this info comes from).
Typical of the CD is how difficult it is to hold back a tear listening to Reger of all composers - I would have never thought it possible, especially when it would have been simply all too easy to choose some all to well known Schubert Lied, but here it is, they have picked Reger and it is PERFECT. Yet that is only one gem amongst so many more here. I am speechless, for this CD is indeed a rare treasure made for people who truly love beautiful music making - a CD to cherish and to weep for joy over.
I should add that as usual from Vox Alia the recorded sound is audiophile quality, and a notch above what you get from about 95% of record labels. In my opinion they even surpass some boutique audiophile labels like Linn, which is really saying something. So if you love to luxuriate in rich sound this will fit like a glove.
If you fall in love with this recording please, please may I suggest you BUY it for someone you love, rather than burning it, just as a way of saying 'thank you' to this family of musicians. This is a family run label rather than some huge impersonal coorporation and I have seen too many private boutique record firms go bust over the years, so please help ensure that these artists continue to make lovely recordings such as this one.
I am adding this CD to my desert island collection.
Description of Ninna Nanna: Lullabies (1500-2002)
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.This is a formidable collection of lullabies, spanning 500 years, 18 of them (from almost as many countries) in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Catalan, English, and more, each one lovely, each one in its own idiom. Some are anonymous; others are by composers as different as Byrd, Mussorgsky, Milhaud, and Arvo Pärt. The disc shouldn't be listened to in one setting--no matter how interesting they are, they're still lullabies and can mellow the listener into torpor--but in three-or-so chunks, the contents are fascinating. Figueras can make her sound move from folk to classical, from a mother who is passionate about her child's safety to one who merely wants to entertain into slumber. The anonymous Greek lullaby (track 3) contains the oddest little vocal quirk--a whipping up of the tone at the close of some phrases--which only an artist like Figueras could pull off. And Savall and soloists accompany on various instruments--flute, harp, viols, etc.--with pianist Paul Badura-Skoda playing on three of the lullabies. The CD is a wonderful tour of the world through the centuries with only one subject in mind: sleep. And sleep is something, after all, that takes up a third of our lives. This CD keeps getting sweeter the more you listen. Recommended. --Robert Levine
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