Jérusalem : La ville des deux paix - La paix céleste et la paix terrestre ; raices & memoria ; vol.8

Jordi Savall's discography is not only impressive, but also very versatile. This is the fourth mega project that he presents in more than 3.5 years. After large books, each with two CDs about Don Quixote, Columbus and the world traveler Francisco Javier, there is now a comprehensive work about three thousand years of Jerusalem. On two more CDs, Savall and cohorts try to sketch nothing less than this… history in music. Starting with a dark fanfare that seems to ring in the middle of a desert, we traverse Heavenly Jerusalem, Jewish Jerusalem, Christian Jerusalem, Islamic Jerusalem and Jerusalem as a pilgrimage, ending with the utopia of true peace in modern Jerusalem . This produces a particularly exciting and cinematic document. We hear recited texts from the Quran, sung psalms, ancient dances, lamentations, stirring music for the Crusades, Ottoman melodies and much more. This creates a fascinating sound landscape of Jerusalem through the ages. The double CD is concluded with a whole series of hopeful pieces about the dream of peace. Now that the unruly reality still… (TC)more