Soprano Meets Bass - Sephardic Treasures

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Label
Ansonica Records
Release Date
July 24, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      TRADITIONAL
    • PERFORMER
      Lewine, Ruimonte
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 24, 2020
    • UPC
      300844059913
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AR0015
    • LABEL
      Ansonica Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      World & International
    Works ⌄

    1. Las cumadres fechiceras

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ana María Ruimonte, Alan Lewine, Hadar Noiberg, Duane Eubanks, Julián Vaquero, Víctor Monge, Shai Wetzer

    2. La infanticida

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ana María Ruimonte, Alan Lewine, Alicia Svigals, Julián Vaquero, Shai Wetzer

    3. El rey cuando amadrugaba

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ana María Ruimonte, Alan Lewine, Hadar Noiberg, Yonnie Dror, Julián Vaquero, Víctor Monge, Shai Wetzer

    4. Al pasar por Casablanca

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ana María Ruimonte, Alan Lewine, Hadar Noiberg, Julián Vaquero, Víctor Monge, Shai Wetzer

    5. En casa del rey león

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ana María Ruimonte, Alan Lewine, Víctor Monge, Chano Dominguez, Shai Wetzer

    6. Triste está el Rey David

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ana María Ruimonte, Alan Lewine, Duane Eubanks, Julián Vaquero, Víctor Monge, Shai Wetzer

    7. Maldiciendo el rey

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ana María Ruimonte, Alan Lewine, Julián Vaquero, Víctor Monge, Shai Wetzer

    8. Tristes nuevas

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ana María Ruimonte, Alan Lewine, Duane Eubanks, Julián Vaquero, Shai Wetzer

    9. Días de la semana

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ana María Ruimonte, Alan Lewine, Julián Vaquero, Víctor Monge, Shai Wetzer

    10. Cantiga de cuna

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ana María Ruimonte, Hadar Noiberg, Alan Lewine, Julián Vaquero, Víctor Monge, Shai Wetzer

    11. Señor Don Gato

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ana María Ruimonte, Alan Lewine, Alicia Svigals, Julián Vaquero, Shai Wetzer

    12. Vido venir tres a caballo

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ana María Ruimonte, Alan Lewine, Julián Vaquero, Víctor Monge, Shai Wetzer

    13. Tres morillas de Jaén

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ana María Ruimonte, Alan Lewine, Julián Vaquero, Víctor Monge, Shai Wetzer

    14. La tarara

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ana María Ruimonte, Alan Lewine, Duane Eubanks, Julián Vaquero, Víctor Monge, Shai Wetzer

    15. Anda Jaleo

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ana María Ruimonte, Alan Lewine, Duane Eubanks, Julián Vaquero, Víctor Monge, Shai Wetzer


SOPRANO MEETS BASS is the latest from Ansonica Records. This album of traditional medieval Sephardic songs arranged by jazz bassist and music director Alan Lewine and classical soprano Ana María Ruimonte is an ethnomusicological celebration of the ancient Sephardic culture. These Spanish Jews were expelled from Spain in the 15th Century and resettled throughout the world, mingling their musical traditions with those of other peoples they encountered. The original arrangements meld medieval Moorish Iberia, jazz, flamenco, Middle Eastern music, and bel canto. They have set these songs in a sort of recombinant world fusion reflecting a vibrant embodiment of the Sephardic communities and their culture. As the album's title suggests, the female voice plays a starring role in SOPRANO MEETS BASS. This reflects the fact that the Sephardic tradition has, for centuries, been an oral one, passed down from mother to daughter across an expanse of generations. Only in the 20th Century were these songs transcribed by musicologists. The stories told in the Sephardic Romancero-the repertoire from which the album's program is drawn-conjure up portraits of life in medieval Spain and the universal truths that undergird them. Spanish soprano Ana María Ruimonte gives life to these ancient melodies and lyrics, radiating from the center of a constellation of renowned virtuosos. Flamenco guitar, Israeli flute, shofar, and a trove of other culturally significant musical instruments vitalize the music of SOPRANO MEETS BASS. The artists' arrangements of the songs on SOPRANO MEETS BASS have been performed throughout the world, from Spain to Cuba to Israel and the United States. This is fitting, since each of these nations has had a hand in forming the unique amalgam of cultural music we hear in this album.