Repertory

Sephardic Ballads

 

A selection of songs from both the Eastern and the Western Sephardic traditions. The importance of Sephardic music lies not only in its great beauty, but also in that it is an integral part of Spain´s basic cultural heritage. It is also a showcase of the magnificent resulting from the fruitful contacts of diverse ethnic and cultural groups living toghether in harmony in the same land and taking advantage of both their differences and their commonalities.

 

Traditional Spanish ballads of the XV, XVI and XVII Centuries.

 

Songs based on the Romancero Castellano (an old canon of traditional Spanish ballads), of Middle Ages origin, mostly of a narrative character. They are, though the mechanisms of their creation and oral transmission, a manifestation of the Spanish collective conscience.

 

Poets of the Siglo de Oro

 

Including Góngora, Lope de Vega, Gutierre de Cetina, Frai Luis de León, San Juan de la Cruz, Quevedo, Zorrilla, Calderón, Fernández de Andrada, Cervantes, Saint Teresa de Jesús.

 

 

Popular Songs

Songs from the different provinces and nationalities of the Spanish state.