SKU: BR.EB-8487
ISBN 9790004177815. 9 x 12 inches.
The Spanish romance preserved for hundreds of years the memory of the century-long religious wars between Christians and Moors. Siegfried Behrend offers a selection of charming arrangements from this period in three volumes.
SKU: BR.EB-8488
ISBN 9790004177822. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: HL.50490479
UPC: 884088583170. 9.0x11.75x0.59 inches.
SKU: OT.28101
ISBN 9789655050752. 8.27 x 11.69 inches.
Song cycle in Ladino for mezzo-soprano and piano. The song cycle Sarina kanta is sung in Ladino and was inspired by Sephardic folk songs. Various folk songs are quoted in the work. The first movement is a fantasia based on a poem by Avner Perez, Sarina kanta romansas, (Sarina sings romances). Sarina is Perez' grandmother, whose memory is recalled in this cycle of poems. The remaining movements are based on songs from the Ladino repertoire. Sarina kanta is also published for soprano and piano, and in the original version for mezzo-soprano and string orchestra. Contents:Sarina kantaUna matika de rudaYa abasha la noviaLa EstreyasYa salio de la marDaniel Akiva is a composer, performer, and educator whose performances on guitar and lute have won great acclaim. Mr. Akiva graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem in 1981, where he studied classical guitar with Haim Asulin and composition with Haim Alexander. In 1987 he completed his studies at the Geneva Conservatorium in Switzerland where he studied lute with Jonathon Rubin and composition with Jean Ballisa. FOr many years he chaired the Music Department at the WIZO High School for the Arts in Haifa, which he founded in 1986, and served as the Artistic Director of the Guitar Gems Festival from 2006-1019. As part of his work at WIZO High School, he has developed a method for teaching free improvisation that has been incorporated into the music program at the school.Mr. Akiva has appeared in concert as a guitarist and lutist and given master classes in Israel, Europe, Russia, the United States, and Latin America. Daniel Akiva’s compositional output includes works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, choir, voice and guitar, piano, and chamber orchestra. His works have been recorded on twelve CDs, the latest of which, Malchut, was issued by OR-TAV in 2014. A native of Haifa whose family has lived in Israel for over five hundred years, he was steeped in the Sephardic (Jewish-Spanish) tradition from his youth. Much of his compositional output has been devoted to a dialogue with the music of the Sephardic Jews. Daniel Akiva has also maintained a creative dialogue over many years with the poets and writers Amnon Shamash, Rivka Miriam, and Avner Peretz.
SKU: BO.B.3714
Malats composed and transcribed several works for violin and piano based on some of his piano works. Two of these are the Canto de Amor (Love Song) and the Serenata Espanola (Spanish Serenade), both from the suite Impresiones de Espana (Impressions of Spain).There are only three songs for voice and piano by Malats which are known at the present time: a Nana (Lullaby) dedicated to Rosita Malats, written in the form of a theme and variations; Tristesse (Sadness) dedicated to Eliseo Meifren, with a text by Alfred de Musset; and, finally, an arrangement of the well-known Serenata Espanola with a text by Jose Nieto.We know that Malats composed a collection of songs with texts by Catulle Mendez, Maria Sourcouf, Henri de Braine and David and Armando Silvestre. However, no publication of these songs is known, nor of the two romances Reveil and En Vous Voyant that were performed by the tenor Ramon Blanchart in 1898 at the Ateneo in Madrid.
