eSefarad Noticias del Mundo Sefaradi
The collection of Spanish–Jewish songs in this third volume, Gazelle and Flea, include satire, a panegyric addressed to a minstrel, wedding songs, laments, coplas, kantigas, and romansas. These are placed cheek–by–jowl with traditional dances from the Sephardim’s host countries, Bulgaria, South Yugoslavia and Macedonia. The text covers themes of love from literal and figurative references involving animals, humans and insects (e.g. gazelle and flea) to more direct faces of love—courtships which are frustrated, sadly disappointed and sea/siren connected, and weddings, specifically the traditional marriage preparations with their expectations of nuptial bliss and love’s frightful sufferings in a cycle of destruction–famine–exile. The songs and dances are performed with improvised decoration as the melodies to which these originally Hebrew texts were sung are lost forever in the ancient folk-memory.
the artists
Winsome Evans, Director of the Renaissance Players, is also the producer of this series. Aside from the performance and dance schedule of the Renaissance Players, Winsome teaches music at the University of Sydney and is one of Australia’s busiest harpsichordists. She has mastered an additional 25 wind, string, percussion and keyboard instruments.
Members of The Renaissance Players performing on this recording include Winsome Evans, Benedict Hames, Llew Kiek, Mara Kiek, Melissa Irwin, Mina Kanaridis, Andrew Lambkin, Barbara Stackpool, and poetry reader Geoff Sirmai.
tracklist
Intérpretes: The Renaissance Players [Winsome Evans (alto shawm, zurna, supeljka, whistle, harp, psaltery, bowed diwan saz, pandero), Benedict Hames (vielle, gadulka, bowed diwan saz, whistle), Llew Kiek (tambura, diwan zaz, baglama, ud,, bouzouki), Mara Kiek (alto, tapan), Melissa Irwin (soprano, ud, gittern), Mina Kanaridis (soprano), Andrew Lambkin (darabukka, pandero, tabor, kasike), Barbara Stackpool (sistrum, zils), Geoff Sirmai (poetry reader)] – Winsome Evans, dir.
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