Al Qantarah ::: Abballati, abbalati! Songs and sounds in medieval Sicily

This ensemble plays medieval Sicilian music. Al Qantarah is the name of a river in eastern Sicily and means "bridge" in Arabic. Sicily has long been a bridge to distant civilisations and since early times its culture has been shaped by the concurrent presence of Hellenic, Arabic and lastly, Norman influences. Al Qantarah’s music evokes the sounds of that multiethnic island in sacred, lay and secular works, as they play on replicas of traditional medieval instruments of the Sicilian, Arabic and Persian traditions
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Fabio Accurso: ud, voice, daf 
Roberto Bolelli: voice, castnets 
Farzaneh Joorabchi: voice, setar 
Nico Staiti: tammureddu, riqq, daf 
Donato Sansone: friscalettu, symphonia, daf, voice 
Faisal Taher: voice 
Fabio Tricomi: vielle, lyre, tar, ud, friscalettu, pipe & tabor, zarb, tammureddu, daf, marranzanu, voice 

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01. Surat Mariam - 1 parte 
02. Trad. Canto di Carnevale - Tammuriddara - Assummata di lu corpu di la tunnara - Navaii 
03. Anon., XII sec - Congaudentes jubilemus 
04. Peire Cardinal, Giacomo da Lentini - Ben m'e venuto 
05. Trad. Catania - Assolo di marranzanu 
06. Trad. Palermo - A la viddanisca 
07. Anon., XII sec - Natali regis glorie 
08. Anon., XV sec - Dolce lo mio drudo 
09. Trad. Trapani - Vicariota 
10. Anon., XII sec - Exultantes et letantes - Trad., Maletto - Ballettu 
11. Trad. Resuttano - Sugnu vinutu di luntana via 
12. Anon., XII sec - In hoc anni circulo 
13. Anon., XII sec - Benedicamus Domino 
14. Trad. Montedoro - Montedoro 
15. Trad. Partanna - Richiami 
16. Anon., XII sec - Resonet intonet 
17. Trad., Persia, Palermo - Parandoush - Chiovu Abballati 
18. Anon., XII sec - Eia fratres 
19. Surat Mariam - 2 parte 
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1999 • Fone 001 SACD
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