With their recording of Alberto Hemsi's Coplas Sefardies, Assaf Levitin (cantor at the Liberal Jewish synagogue in Hanover) and the pianist Naaman Wagner recover an almost forgotten treasure of European and Jewish cultural history - just in time for the composer's 120th birthday in 2018. Hemsi has been understood as a passionate guardian and advocate of Sephardic folklore and it's musical tradition. For years he gathered together many texts and melodies of this Jewish people which had lived in Spain until around 1500 before being dispersed throughout the Mediterranean after their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula. Hemsi collected and notated the monodic, unaccompanied songs and added to them a virtuosic, atmospheric piano accompaniment. Assaf Levitin and Naaman Wagner hereby present the second album of the very first complete recording of Alberto Hemsi's Coplas Sefardies. In addition, as part of the complete recording of all piano songs, they present Hemsi's settings of liturgical and paralliturgical texts in the Hebrew and Aramaic languages: the Kal Nidrey and the two song cycles Arba'a Shirim and Visions Bibliques.

Tracklist:

Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 22: No. 1, De Las Altas Mares
Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 22: No. 2, Una Matica De Ruda
Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 22: No. 3, De Que Lloras, Blanca Niña
Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 22: No. 4, Avrid, Mi Galanica
Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 22: No. 5, Cien Donzellas Van A La Misa
Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 22: No. 6, Abaxéx Abaxo, Galanica Gentil
Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 34: No. 1, Malaña Tripa De Madre
Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 34: No. 2, Bueno Asi Biva La Coshuegra
Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 34: No. 3, Tres Hermanicas Eran
Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 34: No. 4, Morenica A Mi Me Llaman
Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 34: No. 5, Ay Mancebo
Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 34: No. 6, El Buen Viar
Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 41: No. 1, Alevantéx Vos Toronja
Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 41: No. 2, Al Ruido De Una Fuente
Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 41: No. 3, Cuando La Comadre
Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 41: No. 4, Reina De La Gracia
Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 41: No. 5, Vamos Para La Urilla
Coplas Sefardíes, Op. 41: No. 6, Dia De Alhad
Kal Nidrei, Op. 12
Arba'ah Shirim, Op. 42: No. 1, Lekhu Nerannenah
Arba'ah Shirim, Op. 42: No. 2, Hinnakh Yafah
Arba'ah Shirim, Op. 42: No. 3, Mi Yiten
Arba'ah Shirim, Op. 42: No. 4, Shalom Aleykhem
Visions Bibliques, Op. 48: No. 1, Vision D'ezéchiel
Visions Bibliques, Op. 48: No. 2, Vision D'isaie
Visions Bibliques, Op. 48: No. 3, Vision De Cyrus

UPC: 4037408061568
Label: Rondeau
Release Date: 9.28.18
Format: CD

Hemsi / Levitin / Wagner - Coplas Sefardies 2 (CD)