SEPHARDIC MUSIC:
A CENTURY OF RECORDINGS

 

Judith T. Wachs
Co-Founder and Artistic Director,
Voice of the Turtle

Voice of the Turtle Website

Obituaries
Boston Globe – short
Boston Globe – extended

Songs of the Sephardim, Vols. I-V

Title: Time of Singing is Come, The
Label and Number: Mnemosyne Mn-1
Format: LP and cassette
Year Released: 1980
City, State, Country Released: Cambridge, MA
Sephardic Songs:

Los gayos
Una pastora
Esta montaña
Rahelica
Hija mia
Rucu
Los bilbilicos
Yo 'hanino
Amen
Partos trocados
Noches buenas
Ahar noghenim
Entre la mar y el rio
Escuchis señor soldado
Cuando el rey Nimrod


Title: Coat of Many Colors, A
Label and Number: Mnemosyne Mn-3
Format: LP and cassette
Year Released: 1982
City, State, Country Released: Cambridge, MA, US
Sephardic Songs:

Por la tu puerta yo pasi
Dos amantes
Avre este abajour, Bijou
Nani, nani
Morenica
Yéndome para Marsilia
Un día antes que muriera
Adio querida
Seu shearim
Vayhi mikets
El ginat egoz
Cuando Haman s'emborachó
Enmentaré
Bar Yochai
Qore megillah
Rav Amram
Mizmor l'David


Title: Small Miracles
Label and Number: Mnemosyne Mn-7
Format: LP and cassette
Year Released: 1984
City, State, Country Released: Cambridge, MA, US
Sephardic Songs:

Avre tu puerta cerrada
O que relumbror de novia hermoza
Adir Hu
Poco le daj
Pregoneros
Caíme en puerta de reyes
Diziocho años tengo
Maoz tsur
Cuando yo del baño salgo
Hazeremos una merenda
Arvoles lloran por lluvias
Para que quero yo más bivir
Salgaš madre
Escalerica l'hici d'oro


Title: Flowers Appear on the Earth, The
Label and Number: TOR 72
Format: Cassette
Year Released: 1985
City, State, Country Released:  Cambridge, MA, US
Sephardic Songs:

Alta, alta es la luna
Al pasar por Casablanca
Asherico
Agua rosada te merquí
El mundo entero arodeí
El mi querido bevió vino
Andemos al café
En Castilla está un castillo
Galana, galana
Una matica de ruda
Vestida de novia
Si veriash a la rana
Mama, mírame las gambas


Title: Circle of Fire
Label and Number: Titanic Ti-159
Format: Cassette and CD
Year Released: 1987
City, State, Country Released: Somerville, MA, US
Sephardic Songs:

Ocho kandelikas
Vayhi mikets
Kita'l tas
Siete ijos tiene Hanna
Mi ze yemalel
Mizmor shir hanukat habayit
Una matika de ruda
Nani, Nani
Benedicyon
Hanuka
La vida do por el raki
Gantis i kravata blanka
En mi guerta
La berendjena
Mama, mirame las gambas
Adio kerida
Hanerot hallalu


Paths of Exile, Quincentenary Series, Vols. I-V

 
Title: From the Shores of the Golden Horn, Music of the Spanish Jews of Turkey
Label and Number: Titanic Ti-173
Format: CD
Year Released: 1989
City, State, Country Released: Somerville, MA, US
Sephardic Songs:

La prima vez
Todo bueno tengo
Esturulu
Dak'il tas
O madre mia
Ir me kero madre
Durme, durme mi linda donzeya
Te akodraz Sara
Yo hanino, tu hanina
De edad de kinzay anyoz
Maz arriva
Maldicha tripa de madre
Minouche
Azeremoz una merenda
Por la tu puerta
Si savesh la buena djente
Los kaminoz de Sirkidji
Adio Rashel Levi
A la una yo nasi

 


Title: Bridges of Song, Music of the Spanish Jews of Morocco
Label and Number: Titanic Ti-189
Format: CD
Year Released: 1990
City, State, Country Released: Somerville, MA, US
Sephardic Songs:

Una tarde de verano
Las flores
Levantísme madre
Mi nuera
Estando padre cura
Está Rahel lastimosa
La novia se bañaba
Mosé salió de Misrayim
Mosé, Mosé, Mosé
Un cabrito
Diego León
Eres chiquita
Matesha, matesha
Viva Ordueña
Abenámar
Un capitán sevillano
Estaba señor Don Gato
Y estas casas altas son
Wedding Suite (La novia destrenza el pelo/No me puso mi madre/En este bulevar/Ajuar nuevo/Levantísme madre/Entro por la caleja/Dáile cenar)


Title: Balkan Vistas, Spanish Dreams, Music of the Spanish Jews of Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
Label and Number: Titanic Ti-203
Format: CD
Year Released: 1991
City, State, Country Released: Somerville, MA, US
Sephardic Songs:

La yave de Espanya
Estaz caza
Durme, durme
La dolor de la prensesa
Pregoneroz
Anderletto
Aman dermanjik
El koron de loz mochachoz
Chichi bunichi
Dame paraz
Ija mia
Ken es akeyo de la meniana
Abashando de la skalera
La sirena
Nochez, nochez
A la una
Kwando Moshe
Yo le mandi
Si veriash a la rana
Halilem


Title: Under Ægean Moons, Music of the Spanish Jews of Rhodes and Salonika
Label and Number: Titanic Ti-223
Format: CD
Year Released: 1994
City, State, Country Released: Somerville, MA, US
Sephardic Songs:

En el kamino de la 'skola
Yaakov le disho a Yosef
Alta alta va la luna
Ventanaz altaz
De ke yorash, blanka ninya
A la una nasi yo
Dia de Shabá
Finer d'oro
Una fwente
Tres ermanikaz
Povreta muchachika
Lavaba la blanka ninya
No pasesh por la mi pwerta
Esklava de amor
El rey ke muncho madruga
La mujer del pipitero


Title: Full Circle, Music of the Spanish Jews of Jerusalem
Label and Number: Titanic Ti-251
Format: CD
Year Released: 1997
City, State, Country Released: Somerville, MA, US
Sephardic Songs:

Intri las huertas
A la gerra me vo ir
Asentada en la ventana
Montanyas altas
Madres amargadas
Yo era un leoniko
Adio
No me des kon revolver
Delgadina
Molinero
No te lo kontengas
Bastuniko de djevezli
Moshon
Mi suegra
La kumida de la manyana
Skalerika de oro


Holiday-Themed Releases

 
Title: A Different Night, A Passover Musical Anthology
Label and Number: Kol HaTor KHT 018
Format: CD
Year Released: 1996
City, State, Country Released: Cambridge, MA, US
Sephardic Songs:

Kuando d'Aífto fueron salidos
Had gadya (Tangiers)
Adir Hu
Ah Moshe
Par'ó era estreyero
Ken supiese y entendiense
Ke komiash duenya
Mose salyo de Misrayim
Had gadya (Morocco)
Had gadya Italian suite
Suite of Had Gadya


Title: The Sword of the Dove, A Judeo-Spanish Purim Fantasia
Label and Number: Kol HaTor KHT 019
Format: CD
Year Released: 2000
City, State, Country Released: Arlington, MA, US
Sephardic Songs:

Kikhlot yeyni
Korey m'gila
Empesare a kontar (Sarajevo)
Purim lanu (Jerusalem)
Azkir (Constantinople)
Ven aki Zeresh la loka
Azkir/Enmentare
Azkir (Sarajevo)
Un dia antes ke muriera
Alevanta Mordekhai
Kuando Haman s'emborracho
Alavar kero al Dyo
Se akodren
Purim lanu (Ujda)
Empesar kero kontar (Bucharest)
Rau vanim
Empesare a kontar (Monastir)
Kuma Elohim


Anthologies

 
Editor: Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Title: Soundscapes, Exploring Music in a Changing World
Label and Number: Sony Special Music Products A3 51516
Format: Book and CD
Year Released: 2001
City, State, Country Released: NY, NY, US
Songs by Voice of the Turtle:

"Durme, durme" (Balkan Vistas, Spanish Dreams)


Editor: Edwin Seroussi
Title: 500 Years of Sephardi Song and Prayer
Label and Number: Yad Ben Zvi
Format: Cassette
Year Released: 1991
City, State, Country Released: Jerusalem, Israel
Songs by Voice of the Turtle:

La novia se bañaba (Bridges of Song)
Todo bueno tengo (From the Shores of the Golden Horn)
Adío querida (Coat of Many Colors)
Los bilbilicos cantan/Tzur mishelo akhalnu (Time of Singing)


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