From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 This is nocturnal duet is a love song of tenderness and stealth, where the young lover pleads to be let in before dawn, while the girl...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 The copla on the Emigration to Palestine (La emigración a Palestina) is one of the coplas composed in the 20th century, portraying the history of the...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 The copla on the Emigration to Palestine (La emigración a Palestina) is one of the coplas composed in the 20th century, portraying the history...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 During the bride’s bath, an event attended only by women, that, in both the Eastern and Western Sephardic traditions, a cumulative song is performed. Similar to...
From Arboleras Vol. 2 - Romances Sefardies Tradicion Oral This romansa, titled La vuelta del marido ("The Husband’s Return"), tells a story familiar throughout European balladry: the long-awaited return of a husband. Set among gentle...
From Morenika Izmirlia, 2021 A lyrical cantiga modeled after Turkish songs, composed of several loosely connected stanzas that touch on varied themes: a plea to a matchmaker for a suitable bride, a young woman’s impatience...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 This is a lyrical cantiga of disconnected stanzas, with Turkish words included in the text. The second stanza alludes to military service, since he has weapons...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 The medieval story of the long gone husband who returns and, without making himself known, tests his wife's fidelity, is a well-known theme in European ballads....
From Merendjenas, Orit Perlman, 2023 The medieval story of the long gone husband who returns and, without making himself known, tests his wife's fidelity, is a well-known theme in European ballads. The Sephardic romance about...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 Against the backdrop of medieval wars, the romance The Return of the Husband (La vuelta del marido), reflects a pan-European theme. The husband returns after a...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 One of the first songs (composed by Beni Benayora, one of the first promoters of the new settlements) that tells of the difficulties of...
From Arboleras Vol. 2 - Romances Sefardies Tradicion Oral This is a partial rendition of this romance, where the husband leaves his wife. It has a widespread geographical distribution in Sephardic culture, sung in both...
From Morenika Izmirlia, 2021, From Merendjenas, 2023 This is a song of a slave’s longing for his wife Tamar Pesá, mother of his children, who is far away embroidering a shirt for the son of...
From Arboleras Vol. 2 - Romances Sefardies Tradicion Oral This is a song of a slave’s longing for his wife Tamar Pesá, mother of his children, who is far away embroidering a shirt for the...