Obras para Arpa

Cristina Montes Mateo

THE WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN COMPOSERS The Workshop for Women Composers is an initiative of the Department of Culture and Sport, in collaboration with the Composer’s Foundation of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, the main collecting society for songwriters, composers and music publishers in Spain, the University of Cádiz and the Center for Musical Documentation in Adalusia (Centro de Documentación Musical de Andalucía). Ever since it was first held in 2005 it has become a meeting point, a time for reflection and creation for Spanish women composers. There are s...+ info

Andalucía en la Música Judeo-Española

Alia Musica

Conductor: Miguel Sánchez

ANDALUCÍA EN LA MÚSICA JUDEOESPAÑOLA   En su acepción estricta, el término sefardí se aplica para designar a los judíos oriundos de España, es decir, los descendientes de los expulsados a finales del siglo XV que han conservado a lo largo del tiempo rasgos culturales hispánicos. En el reducido ámbito del hogar familiar o en las reuniones y celebraciones festivas, sociales y religiosas, ha ido tomando cuerpo, después de la expulsión y fuera de la Península, el repertorio que hoy conocemos como m&u...+ info

La Música de Al-Andalus

Ensemble Awtar-Tilimsem

There is a very significant fragment of the poem written by Ismá'il b. Bard when he asked 'Abd al-Hamid b. Basil for a lute, and was given an old instrument:   You were very generous to send me a lute that belonged to the family of al-Waid. Generation after generation mended it with their hands. It is Co me like a lute of mosaic. The spiders wove over it for they thought it a vestige of a building in ruins. This lute is like effaced lines, like the remains of the ink of beautiful calligraphy.   (AI-Kattáni (1029): Kitab al-tasbihiát mi...+ info