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Sephardic Sounds
Given that the first Jews to arrive in
what became the United States were
Sephardim on the run from the
Inquisition's Brazilian representatives,
it is ironic that the music of the
Sephardic Jews gets so little attention
in this country.
Not everyone is a party to that
neglect. Simon Rutberg of Hatikvah
Music, a Los Angeles-based store with
a mind-boggling array of Jewish
recordings, has made it his business
(literally) to bring a wide range of
Sephardic and Ladino music to
American listeners and is often the
exclusive purveyor of much of it. The
following represent a few of his
favorites.
As for the music itself, two ele-
ments unite most of these records —
the emotional power of minor inter-
vals and the expressiveness of the
human voice.
Etty Ben-Zaken's The Bride
Unfastens Her Braids, the Groom
Faints: Ladino Love Songs (New
Albion) is torrid stuff. Ben-Zaken has
one of those husky, smoky altos like
the great flamenco cantaoras, and she
wields it with real power. The instru-
mental sound, from the Ensemble
Yatin Atari, is highly reminiscent of
Renaissance dance music, like many
recordings in this genre, including
Jana Lewitovaa's and Rudolf Merinsk's
Sephardic Songs (Classics Arta).
Lewitovaa is a graceful, elegant singer
and she gets the maximum emotional
impact out of some very lively, albeit
somewhat more familiar material.
Salamone Rossi's The Songs of
Solomon (Panton) belongs to the writ-
ten classical tradition rather than the
folk tradition of most Sephardic music.
That said, he is undoubtedly the most
famous Jewish. classical composer
working prior to the 19th century. An
Italian Jew, he was a student and pro-
tege of Claudio Monteverdi. His best
known works are choral and this splen-
did recording by the Kuhn Chamber
Soloists and Symposium Musicum,
under the direction of Pavel Kuhn,
highlights his finest accomplishment, a
33-song cycle of liturgical music.
Rossi's settings have the elegance of
simplicity, with haunting harmonics,
and the Kuhn singers perform them
with a combination and restrain that
allows them to speak for themselves.
David Saltiel's Jewish Spanish Songs
of Thessaloniki (Oriente) has plenty of
both authenticity and musical value.
Saltiel is not a professional singer,
although he is backed here by profes-
sional musicians. But he is an inheri-
tor of a unique musical tradition of
Judeo-Spanish folk songs passed down
through generations. His style is full
of ornate melismatic phrases and a
driving pulse. The result is Ladino
folk music of raw power, moving in
both senses of the word.
Songs for the Bride and Groom
(Oriental) represents yet another, very
different musical tradition. A field
recording of Yemenite wedding music,
this disc features half women's songs
for the bride, half men's songs for the
groom. The music is"riveting, moving
effortlessly between pulsing, richly
harmonized choral pieces and driving
percussion-backed numbers that recall
the great Nubian pop singer Ali
Hassan Kuban.
Savina Yannatou's Spring in
Salonika showcases a powerful singer
who is alternately ethereal and plain-
tive, with an instrument that is expres-
sive far beyond an apparently limited
range. The musicians backing her are
sensitive accompanists and gifted