Ghazali & Üsküdar (Jordi Savall, Choir of the Scuola Vivante)

Jordi Savall integrated the choir of the Scuola Vivante into the final part of the concert in a Turkish, Arabic, Greek and Hebrew variation of the folk song Ghazali – a song that has spread throughout the Middle East and has been sung or danced in various countries, each in a slightly modified form, in their own national language, but still unmistakably the same piece. By including the children's and youth choir of the Scuola Vivante, Jordi Savall drew a line from early music – with its central concern of preserving history – to the current politically, socially and religiously tense situations between North and South and East and West: towards the future generation that will carry us forward. This generation is given a voice in the concert and is called upon to participate in these dialogues, to continue them and to work for a loving world. Jordi Savall, Fidel , Rebab& Direction Lior Elmaleh, Vocal Gürsoy Dinçer, Vocal Choir of the Scuola Vivante HESPÈRION XXI Pierre Hamon, Flute Michaël Grébil, Laute & Zither Andrew Lawrence-King, Harfe Pedro Estevan, Percussion Haïg Sarikouyoumdjian, Ney Gaguik Mouradian, Kamancha Hakan Güngör, Kanun Yurdal Tokcan, Oud Yair Dalal, Oud Dimitri Psonis, Santur Erez Shmuel Mounk, Percussion Ghazali tal jàhri (Morocco & Israel) Üsküdar (Türkiye) Mare Nostrum - Dialogue of Ottoman, Jewish and Christian music from around the Mediterranean CH - Buchs SG, April 2014 www.marenostrum-film.ch