This year, Passover begins on the evening of April 12 and ends on the evening of April 20. Tonight, Baroque&Before commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt with a program of sacred, paraliturgical, celebratory, and secular music of the Jews of the Mediterranean: Spain, Greece, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire.
Tonight’s program will be available for on demand listening for two weeks following the broadcast.
Songs & Laments of the Sephardim
Detail of an illuminated manuscript: a family around the Seder Table, 1383 (Image: British Library, CC BY)
Playlist
Anonymous
Invocación: Qamti Be-Ishon Layla
Yehudá Haleví (1075-1141)
Siónida: Yefe Nof
Maimonides (1135-1204)
Igueret ha-Shemad
-Excerpt, Letter on Forced Conversion
(Kerry Frumkin, Speaker)
Anonymous
Las Estrellas De Los Cielos
Dunash Ben Labrat (920-990)
Hebraic Lament from Al-Andaluz: Dror Yiqrá
Anonymous
El Pan De La Aflicción
ARTISTS
Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Jordi Savall
“Granada 1013-1502”
ALIA VOX SACD AVSA9915
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Don Abraham Alfaquin (fl. 2nd half of the 13th century)
Noche de aljad
Abraham Ibn Ezra (c.1092–1167)
Ki esmerá sabat
Anonymous
La fragua del estudio
Hayim Hacohen (1585-1655)
Dodí yarad leganó
Yehuda Cal’i (fl. 18th century)
La ketubá de la ley
ARTISTS
Alia Mvsica
“The Alhambra: A Musica Tour”
Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908554.55
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Salomone Rossi (ca. 1570 – 1630)
Baruch haba b’Shem ADONAI
Mizmor Le’Toda
ARTISTS
New York Baroque/Eric Milnes, Director
“Salamone Rossi: The Songs of Solomon, Vol. 2′
Jewish Sacred Music from the 17th century
Dorian CD 93220
