? Sarband & Fadia El-Hage, Osnabr?ck Youth Choir – 2003 – Pilgrims of the Soul. Music from Voyages of the Body and the Spirit (Medieval and Traditional Songs from Santiago de Compostela, Montserrat and Al-Andalus)
? Country: Germany
? Genre: Sephardic / Hispano-Arabic / Medieval Folk
? Release Date: 2003
? Total Time: 53 min 16 sec
? Format: mp3 160 kbps + CD booklet scans with lyrics
? Size: 77,4 MB (incl. +5% recovery)

Tracklist:

01 – Lamma badda (andalus?) [4:47]

02 – 1. Dum pater familias [Codex Calixtinus] / 2. Laudemus virginem [Llibre Vermell] / 3. Salve virgo regia [Ripoll] (instr.) / 4. Splendens ceptigera [Llibre Vermell] [7:02]

03 – 1. Ya ra’i z-ziba (andalus?) / 2. Salve regina [Las Hulegas] [9:38]

04 – Ayyu-ha s-saqi (andalus?) [8:37]

05 – 1. Mariam matrem [Llibre Vermell] / 2. Ad mortem festinamus [Llibre Vermell] [6:58]

06 – Zar?n? l-maHb?b (andalus?) [6:08]

07 – Cuncti simus concanentes [Llibre Vermell] [5:30]

08 – 1. Nani nani (sefard?) / 2. Hildegard von BINGEN. O successores fortissimi leonis [5:29]

09 – 1. Polorum regina [Llibre Vermell] / 2. Stella splendens [Llibre Vermell] [9:07]

Preview / Предпрослушивание

SARBAND вживую, с ливанской певицей Fadia el-Hage и Оснабрюкским молодежным хором (Osnabr?ck Youth Choir), на концерте в храме Бахуса в Баальбеке, Ливан, в рамках Баальбекского Международного фестиваля.

Баальбекский Международный фестиваль является старейшим и самым известным культурным событием на Ближнем Востоке и в восточном Средиземноморье. Начиная с 1955 года (кроме годов гражданской войны, 1975-1996), сотни тысяч людей со всего мира собираются в древнем священном городе Баальбек в долине Бекаа в Ливане для участия в ежегодном фестивале. Классическая музыка и танец, театр, опера и джаз, а также современная и традиционная музыка со всего мира исполняются ежегодно, в июле и августе в древнем римском акрополе, одном из самых больших и хорошо сохранившихся римских храмовых комплексов из всех когда-либо построенных.
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SARBAND, with the Lebanese singer Fadia el-Hage and the Osnabr?ck Youth Choir, in concert at the Bacchus Temple within the framework of the ‘Baalbek International Festival’.

With their current production PILGRIMS OF THE SOUL, the musicians of SARBAND prove that music can be much more than mere ornament, that it has been and can be a cosmopolitan medium of intercultural respect: an example of understanding and mutual appreciation, a demonstration of peace.

Every summer since 1955 (with the exception of the civil war years 1975-1996) a festival has been carried out in the mystical setting of Baalbek, an archaic, sacred site in Lebanon. Renowned orchestras, theatre groups, chamber music ensembles and soloists from all over the world perform at this event. In 1998 (at the second post-war festival) the SARBAND ensemble gave a concert in the Bacchus temple of Baalbek.

PILGRIMS OF THE SOUL takes listeners on a journey into Spain’s Medieval past. Between the eight and fourteenth centuries, Christians, Jews and Moslems co-existed peacefully in Al-Andalus (present-day Andalusia). SARBAND brings this cultural melange to life in music as the Medieval melodies emerge from the lute, dulcimer, Gothic harp and shawm in new splendor.

The recording of this concert serves as the basis for the latest SARBAND CD, its programme dedicated above all to the Golden Age of Al-Andalus – a civilisation in which the three world religions succeeded in peaceful co-existence.

«… and again on the wonderful album PILGRIMS OF THE SOUL, the musicians of Germany, England, Turkey and Lebanon … conduct a suspenseful dialogue of the cultures … This fascinating recording takes listeners along on a journey into the depths of Spain’s past … A first-class production in every respect!»
(Harald Kepler, Amazon Germany Music Editor)