Yad

Track Listings

1. "Shur"

2. "Segah"

Tracks:

Why Little Bird Do you Not Sing
You On A Hill, I On A Hilll
Pinguli Pinguli Giuvacchinu/The Door
The Girl From Nuoro
Sardinian Dance
Gentle Hand
When The Lissome Girl Appeared
Glory To The Word Of God
The Jasmine
Smyrnaean Air
In The Beautiful Bygone Days
Dawn Has Broken
And A Mother
Lullaby
The Boatmen
La Finforletta
O, Wave
God Has Afflicted Me/Why Little Bird Do You Not Sing

Customer Reviews:

nice.......2007-05-30

She has a very beautiful voice the songs are just not strong enough. I found 3 songs that I find myself listening to over and over. She dose have a great voice but the songs just don't show that off.

Mediterranean Music.......2006-11-03

An exquisite collection of songs from the countries surrounding the Mediterranean, the White Sea, in original languauges. S Yanatou has an angelic voice. Strongly recommended.

Comment on "Gemçis Güzel Günerli" and more.......2005-05-01

First off, this is the best Savina Yannatou CD I've heard to date -- her voice is in terrific form here. (Though you'll get to hear a lot more of the band on her latest release, Sumiglia.)

Second, track 11 ("Gemçis Güzel Günerli") *is* a Turkish song, written by an Aremenian citizen of Turkey, Hrant Kenkulian, or "Udi Hrant," as he's often known -- this is mentioned in the liner notes to Mediterranea. ("Udi" is an honorific prefix meaning that he was a master player of the ud, a Middle Eastern lute.) If you're interested in exploring his music further, there are several recordings of his work (voice, ud, and violin) on the Traditional Crossroads label. (Type "Udi Hrant" into the search engine on this site and you'll find the CDs very easily.)

Turkey was -- and still is -- an ethnically mixed country, which is a legacy of the Ottoman Empire. There were Armenian Turkish composers and musicians at the courts of the Ottoman sultans, and there were those who also excelled at light classical and popular song. Hrant Kenkulian was a master of classical and popular music -- if you explore further, you'll find out that he's one of many 20th-century Armenians who were involved in the development of Turkish music.

Yannatou is an inheritor of Turkish tradition, too. Modern Greece was occupied by the Ottomans for many centuries, and there is a very strong Turkish tinge to much of the Greek music she performs. (And vice versa, as she performs Pontic Greek music from the Black Sea coast of Turkey; also songs from Smyrna -- now called Izmir -- on Turkey's western coast.)

What I love most about her work is her peerless way with all of the songs she chooses. Many people have tried to come up with pan-Mediterranean discs, but Yannatou is one of a handful of people who has succeeded at it.

Gecmis Guzel Gunleri is actually Armenian.......2004-09-22

My professional background is in ethnomusicology. I am not Greek, Turkish or Armenia so I have no axe to grind. One reviewer below, apparently of Turkish background, seems to take offense that Gecmis Guzel Gunleri is not listed as "Turkish Traditional." there is a simple reason for that, it isn't orignially a Turkish song. It is a well known Armenian song, with the same melody for hundred of years. Indeed this rendition is in Turkish, but to call it "Turkish traditional" would be innacurate.

Inded it belongs to, adn illustrates, a whole body of non Turkish music from Turkey which actually speaks to the ethnic cleansing that occured the in the 1900-1920's period.

Few people in today's Turkey, which has been purged of knowledge of the roots of its own tradional music, are aware of the multiethnic roots of its music. It was for years criminal to even suggest that many songs were orignially Greek, Kurdish or Armenian.

So I am glad that my Turkish friend likes the Armenian ballad Gecmis Guzel Gunleri ("The Beautiful Past Days") and am only sorry that he never heard the original recordings by an long dead artist now know in Turkey as Udi Hrant, but whose non stage name was Udi Hrant Kenkulian. His family was murdered in the Turkish Genocide against the Armenians, which makes his song more ever poignant - as the title suggests..

The Meditarranean Soul Captured in One CD!.......2002-04-02

Savina Yannatou has an indescribable soprano voice which captures the sounds and emotions of the Meditarranean people whether Italian, Greek, French (Corsica), Hebrew or Turkish (I may have missed a country or two present on the CD). The wedding song from the Greek island of Kalymnos and the Turkish "aman" song are my favorites. All the songs are so beautifully sung, it is hard to say that one is better than another ... I have heard these two songs before and am familiar with how they should sound: her singing is traditonal with a tenderness and sincerity that is a uniquely her own. Savina's voice is ethereal and "other worldly" - totally living up to her name, after a saint from the Meditarranean, Italy, I think.

I first heard Savina Yannatou on Mondo Greece and knew I must have one of her CDs. I discovered this one and was compelled to buy it. It is filled with the music of Primavera de Salonika, playing kanun, santouri, lyra, and other authentic intstruments that complement Savina's voice. Her voice is beyond description ... totally captivating, exceptional, without comparison. Listen and be amazed - then buy the CD!!! Erika Borsos (erikab93)

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OMAY YAD (Live in Chicago 1971)
Pink Floyd
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ASIN: B000KCUBLQ

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Tracks: 1. Oenone 6:20 2. Fingal's Cave 1:50 3. Interstellar Overdrive 13:40 4. Crumbeling Land 6:10 5. Rain in the Country 7:00 6. The Embryo 11:45

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Arkadiy Severniy Fartoviy Yad
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CD1: Fartovyj jad. CHast' 1 1. Fartovyj jad 2. JEh, Odessa, mat'-Odessa 3. Alesha - kosaja sazhen' 4. ZHil ja v shumnom gorode 5. Stojal ja raz na streme 6. Alesha zharit na bajane 7. Evrejskaja svad'ba 8. Moj prijatel', student 9. Sashka 10. Raz v Rostove-Na-Donu 11. Odin sizhu na plintuare 12. Korobejniki 13. Tramvaj No10 CD2: Fartovyj jad. CHast' 2 1. Serdechnyj telefon 2. SHumno v dome SHmeerzona 3. CHernaja mol' Arkadij Severnyj 4. Sem' sorok 5. Pomnju ja 6. Popurri 7. Zachem jeto leto 8. Ljublju ja sorok gradusov 9. Parovoz "Radiotrance"

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Yad

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ASIN: B00004TJEO
Release Date: 1998-03-21

Tracks:

"Shur"
"Segah"

Customer Reviews:

oK.......2001-01-01

I FIRST GOT THIS CD when I turned 11, for my birthday, Dec.31. I enjoyed listening to the music and thought the composer cared a great deal about working his people. I think they could be proffesionals and be performing around the world. I really enjoyed it and I highly reccomend it.

John Downey: Chant to Michelangelo; Harp Concerto; For Those Who Suffered

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John Downey: Chant to Michelangelo; Harp Concerto; For Those Who Suffered

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ASIN: B00000DG3E
Release Date: 1998-10-27

Tracks:

Chant To Michelangelo - Czech RSO/John Downey
Con: Allegro
Con: Lento
Con: Allegro Gusto
For Those Who Suffered (Yad Vashem-An Impression) - John Senior

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Makes me want to visit Bulgaria!

Bulgarian Soul

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ASIN: B0000AKOWN
Release Date: 2003-01-01

Tracks:

Dilmana, Dibera
Kalimanka, Denka
Day Mi, Bozhe, Krila Lebedovi-Give Me, Oh God, The Wings Of A Swan
A Little Lamb Was Bleating
Fair Tudora Is Dozing
Rufinka Lies Ill
Melody
The Sun Is Shining
I'm So Angry, Mother
The Flowergirl
Vocalize
Mama Was Telling Rada
Momchil's Young Wife
Tell Me, Little White Cloud

Customer Reviews:

Makes me want to visit Bulgaria!.......2006-08-19

This nostalgic CD makes me want to visit Bulgaria.... just to see what kind of a country is it that produced such haunting folk songs... and such soulful singer as Vesselina Kasarova and her many great Bulgarian colleagues.

The first piece, Dilmano Dilbero grabs your attention quickly with its strange dissonance and harmony...or dis-harmony between the soloist and the chorus. They sing together in different keys! And somehow it all works. All the songs are pretty sad but not depressing, climaxing at the last, haunting piece, Tell Me, Little White Cloud.

Kasarova's distinctive full mahogany voice cuts right thru the chorus and the contrast is intoxicating. It's strange to my ear... like she and the Cosmic Voice chorus are singing their own different tunes about the same thing. And it somehow works! After listening to this CD I now have a good idea why the Bulgarian singers tend to be expressive and in command of many vocal colors. It's practically ingrained in their traditional music. Most pieces here are accompanied by piano or light orchestration.

The booklet provides libretti in Bulgarian and English, with Ms Kasarova's note on the history and development of Bulgarian folk music, and her short synopsis on each of the song which really helps me appreciate them better.

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