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| Artist: Joel Cohen & The Boston Camerata
Creators: Alfonso X (el Sabio), Anonymous, Aquitanian Repertory Anonymous, Cortona Codex Anonymous, Egerton Manuscript 2615 Anonymous, Llibre Vermell De Montserrat Anonymous, Arabic Traditional, Christmas Traditional, French Traditional, Sephardic Traditional, Turkish Traditional, Boston Camerata, Sharq Ensemble, Joel Cohen, Kareem Roustom, Boujemaa Razgui, Anne Azema, Anne Harley, Equidad Bares
Label: Warner Classics
Category: Music
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Rating:  2 reviews
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 62560
UPC: 825646256020
EAN: 0825646256020
Release Date: November 8, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Sephardic (Balkans) -- Taksim Farahfaza | | • | Alfonso el Sabio, King of Castille (1221-1284) -- Madre De Deus | | • | Southern France, 12th c -- Gregis Pastor | | • | Tuscany, 13th c -- Gloria 'n Cielo | | • | Folquet de Marseille (1150-1231) Limoges, 12th -- Senher Dieus (Text) | | • | Alfonso el Sabio -- Santa Maria Strella Do Dia | | • | Montserrat, 14th c. -- Polorum Regina | | • | Gregorian Occitan, 12th c. -- Como Somos Per Conssello | | • | Occitan, 12th c -- Ave Maris Stella | | • | Alfonso el Sabio -- Mei Amic E Me Fiel | | • | Istria, 19th c. -- Todo Logar Mui Ben | | • | Sephardic (Balkans) -- Taouchia | | • | France, 13th c. -- Noi Siamo I Magi | | • | Provence (Avignon), 17th c. -- Quando El Rey Nimrod | | • | Spain (Andalusia) -- En Belen Tocan A Fuego | | • | Spain (Andalusia) -- Duermete, Nino, Duerme | | • | Egypt -- Nani Ya Srira | | • | Arabo-Andalusian (Morocco) -- Borea (Prelude) |
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Album Description
The Boston Camerata, currently under the direction of Joel Cohen, has been a driving force in the early music movement. For over 50 years they have set the standard for accurate and stirring interpretations of ancient music.
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| Customer Reviews:
Quickly became one of our favorite CDs December 22, 2008
Fratina (San Francisco Bay Area)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We have had Boston Camarata albums (beginning with LPs) for many years, so we expected to like this, but it's even better than we had hoped. It won't be put away with the holiday albums in January; it will stay in the Early Music section to be enjoyed many times throughout the year.
Transforming! January 7, 2008
Megan R. Lindsay (Phoenix, AZ)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
As fans of the Boston Camerata for decades, we giddily add a CD every couple of years to our collection. And while everything from the BC masterfully declares the glories of Western religious, literary, music, and linguistic heritage, this CD has the power to stop you in your tracks. This is not ambiance, sitting by the fire with a cup of cocoa, Christmas music. This is proclamatory music.
One of the most remarkable features of this CD is the use of the shofar on the first track. The shofar, which is a ram's horn, was an ancient instrument used by the Israelites most often to call the people to worship. But it was also the instrument used to call God's people to battle, and to declare the proclamations of the Lord. It is one of the most haunting, pleasantly disturbing sounds we have ever heard. It even made our 2-year old stop her play and say in awed tones, "wow... horn!"
Too many people have been turned off to history because it was taught to them in a ridiculous name-date-place rationalistic fashion, instead of as history was meant to be told -- in stories. This CD is a musical story. It's not just a story about the music of the time, but it's the story of the people told in their very own music.
It's easy to forget that this is our heritage too, even though it resembles next to nothing in our current culture. The Boston Camerata has taken on a momentous task in reminding us who we are through songs that still resonate in our souls centuries later.
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