La Lira d'Esperia ("The Lyre of Hesperia," the latter being the Latin term for the Iberian peninsula) was originally recorded in 1994 by Jordi Savall, playing a variety of medieval ancestors to the modern violin or fiddle, and percussionist Pedro Estevan. The album was followed by a successful sequel. With just two instruments, it has a less expansive sound than other Savall releases but is no less far-reaching, delving into the antecedents of the violin in Arab Muslim, Spanish Jewish, and Christian cultures. Savall uses ...
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La Lira d'Esperia ("The Lyre of Hesperia," the latter being the Latin term for the Iberian peninsula) was originally recorded in 1994 by Jordi Savall, playing a variety of medieval ancestors to the modern violin or fiddle, and percussionist Pedro Estevan. The album was followed by a successful sequel. With just two instruments, it has a less expansive sound than other Savall releases but is no less far-reaching, delving into the antecedents of the violin in Arab Muslim, Spanish Jewish, and Christian cultures. Savall uses four instruments, a rebab (from Afghanistan), a rebec, a six-string "lira da gamba," and a tenor vielle (a word that is the ancestor of both "viol" and "fiddle"). He matches them to a mixed repertory derived from notated Italian and Spanish sources, traditional music of Algeria, Spain, and modern-day Turkey and Bosnia, dividing his program into four parts containing various musical types and cultures. There are dances and instrumental pieces derived from sacred and secular vocal...
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