Hespèrion XXI and friends / Jordi Savall
In about four centuries, colonisation, deportation and slavery claimed more than 25 million victims in Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean. Jordi Savall, himself a UNESCO Artist for Peace, reaches out to the past from living music in which the voices of the affected peoples can still be heard.
His soundscape of overseas territories also mirrors the traditions of Renaissance and Baroque Europe. We hear works by Gaspar Fernandes, Diego Durón, Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Felip Olivelles, Santiago de Murcia and numerous anonymous composers. On stage, in addition to Tembembe Ensamble Continuo, Savall welcomes guest musicians from Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, Mali, Venezuela and Mexico. Because silence equals forgetting. And to remember is the beginning of hope.
Programme
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Part 1: 1440-1640
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Traditional Mali
Griot song: African Lament
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Alonso
La trivotea Samartín la vea (Canzon alla Villota)
(from: Cancionero de Palacio nr. 247, Madrid 1505-1520)fl. 1500 -
Anonymous Nahuatl
Poem
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Traditional Afro-Cuban
Song to Oshun
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Traditional Haïtian-Vodou
Ballmannan
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Traditional Brazilian / arr. Aloysio de Alencar Pinto
Ofulú lorêrê-ê
1911-2007 -
Matheo Flecha
San Sabeya gugurumbé
(from: La Negrina)1481?-1553? -
Traditional Son jarocho
Los Negritos / Gurumbé
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Teodora Ginés
El son de la Má’Toedora
1530-1598 -
Traditional Mali
Griot song: Sinanon saran
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Traditional
Slave song: Look over yonder
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Gaspar Fernandes
Tleycantimo choquiliya
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Part 2: 1680-1880c1570-1629 -
Traditional / arr. Michel Costa
Canto do Guerreiro (Caboclinho paraibano)
1808-1884 -
Traditional
Slave song: You gonna reap what you sow
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Traditional Guantánamo
Changüi: La rumba está buena
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Gaspar Fernandes / Anonymous Nahuatl
Xicochi conetzintlé / Xochipitzahuatl
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Air pour les esclaves africains instrumental
1683-1764 -
Anonymous Peru
Cachua serranita nombrada: El Huicho Nuebo: No ay entendimiento humano
(from: Codex Trujillo no. 19, Peru 1780)18th century -
Traditional Haiti
Tumba francesa
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Traditional Mali
Lamento
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Traditional IsiXhosa
Religious song and prayer: Indodana
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Juan García de Zéspedes / Traditional Tixtla
Guaracha: Ay, que me abraso, ay / El Arrancazacate
1619-1678 -
Mario Oropesa
Aguacero, aguacerito
Programme subject to change
Musicians
- Emilio Buale recitant
- Neema Bickersteth voice
- Sekouba Bambino Griot chant
- Yannis François baritone, dance
- Ballaké Sissoko kora, voice
- Mamani Keita, Tanti Kouyaté, Fanta Sissoko choir
- Maria Juliana Linhares soprano
- Zé Luis Nascimento percussions
- Teresa Yanet voice
- Lixsania Fernández voice & bass viol
- Marlon Rodríguez percussion & choirs
- Frank Pereira guitar, tres cubano & choirs
- Sylvie Henry voice
- Iván García bass
- La Capella Reial de Catalunya
- Anna Piroli soprano
- David Sagastume countertenor
- Víctor Sordo tenor
- Lluís Vilamajó tenor
- Temembe Ensamble Continuo
- Ada Coronel voice, dance
- Leopoldo Novoa marimbol, marimba de chonta & tiple colombiano
- Enrique Barona leona, jarana & voice
- Ulises Martínez violin, vihuela, leona & voice
- Hespèrion XXI
- Pierre Hamon flutes
- Béatrice Delpierre flute, shawm
- Elies Hernandis sackbut
- Josep Borràs dulcian
- Xavier Puertas violone
- Xavier Díaz-Latorre theorbo, guitar, vihuela de mano
- Andrew Lawrence-King Spanish Baroque harp
- David Mayoral percussion
- Jordi Savall artistic direction, treble viol
