3_Booklet 119x136Elcano_AnglaisP156_P229.qxp_Miseenpage113/03/201919:02Page156 Foto: Nomad Studio 3_Booklet 119x136 Elcano_Anglais P156_P229.qxp_Mise en page 1 13/03/2019 19:02 Page 158 158 JUAN SEBASTIAN ELKANO ENGLISH 159 ALIA VOX DIVERSA After more than 20 successive years of recordings released under the Alia Vox label, and with 127 albums to our credit, we are delighted to present a new recording by Enrike Solinís and his Euskal Barrokensemble in the collection Alia Vox Diversa that we launched four years ago with a previous album by Enrike Solinís. This new programme celebrating the five-hundredth anniversary of the great Basque navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano’s first round-the-world voyage immerses us in the fascinating evocation of a thousand-year-old maritime culture of which Elcano is one of the most illustrious representatives. Thanks to an eloquent choice of music from different periods reflecting the diverse origins and cultures encountered on the expeditions undertaken in that unique adventure, we evoke an epic enterprise which marked the beginning of the modern age. Once again, Enrike Solinís and his Euskal Barrokensemble successfully combine all the features that we envisaged for this Alia Vox Diversa collection: the rediscovery of forgotten repertories, such as those of the ancient Basque DIVERSA musical tradition and the other cultures that it embraced or shared as it ventured into the immense maritime expanses of a new world, and a range of songs, dances, variations and re-creations performed with respect for the traditions and historical practices of the Renaissance and the incipient Baroque. Let us listen to this wonderful music and these enchanting songs and, thanks to the talent and sensitivity of the singers and musicians of Euskal Barrokensemble, let us recapture the essence of the ancient Basque Country’s musical culture through the abundant vitality and emotion of these musical gems. JORDI SAVALL New Haven, 26th February, 2019 Translated by Jacqueline Minett 3_Booklet 119x136 Elcano_Anglais P156_P229.qxp_Mise en page 1 13/03/2019 19:02 Page 160 160 JUAN SEBASTIAN ELKANO ENGLISH 161 1435 The Gypsies arrive in the Basque Country 7. Buselik asirani – Dimitrie Cantemir 3’18 The First Voyage Round the World 15th century: Basque Country: The coming together of Christians, Jews and Muslims JUAN SEBASTIAN ELCANO 8. Loa loa - Traditional Basque 4’27 9. Recited Muwashshaha – Abu al-Abbas Ahmad the “Blind Poet of Tudela”, 12th century 0’44 Songs and dances in the Golden Age of Basque sailing 10 Muwashshaha– Abu al-Abbas Ahmad, 12th century / F. Atlan / E. Solinís 3’41 11. Si la douleur de mon esprit – Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549) 1’34 12. Pavane, Gaillarde & Branle de Champagne – Claude Gervaise (1525-1583) 4’46 1487 Getaria, birth of Juan Sebastián Elcano 13. Une batez– Judah ha-Levi (Tudela c. 1070/75-Jerusalem c. 1141) 1’00 14. Efthah’ na séfathay / Maitia nun zira – Jewish religious song / Traditional Basque 3’17 CD 1 15. Verrus – Traditional Basque 1’32 A global shift: From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic 16. Arratiako dantzak – Traditional from Vizcaya 2’11 Millenary Vasconia: A Maritime Country 17. Dos ánades, Madre – Johanes Antxieta (1462-1523) 2’31 1. Introduction 0’46 2. Seikilos’s Epitaph – Anonymous 2’03 16th century: Pishonerak; Women of the Port 3. Ale, arraunean – Traditional Basque 3’22 18. Dindirindín. Ensalada La Bomba – Mateo Flecha (1481-1553) 3’18 19. Amorosen partizia – Bernat Etxepare (c. 1480-1545) 2’46 Pabanea – Osborn Manuscript Collection 16th century 2’17 .20 ןימינב תועסמ 12th century: Benjamin of Tudela’s book The Travels of Benjamin 4. Bashraf jahargah – Darwish Mustapha, 16th century – Text Pío Baroja 4’16 5. Raiko – Traditional dance from Macedonia 1’36 1519 Seville: The Expedition of Ferdinand Magellan 6. Gurmak itsasoan – Liturgical song / Theobald of Navarre 4’29 21. Santa Maria, strela do dia – (Prison song). Popular Andalusian 2’53 22. Quid est tibi / Mare vidit – Michael Navarrus (Pamplona, 1563-1627) 1’25 3_Booklet 119x136 Elcano_Anglais P156_P229.qxp_Mise en page 1 13/03/2019 19:02 Page 162 162 JUAN SEBASTIAN ELKANO ENGLISH 163 1521 Strait of Magellan and Magellan’s death at the Battle of Mactan 1526 Final expedition to the Moluccas and Elcano’s testament 23. Journal of Pigafetta 1’58 11. Sumba Song – Traditional Malayo-Polynesian song 1’40 24. Itsasoa laino dago – Traditional Basque 3’40 12. Elcano’s testament - Salve Regina – Martínez de Bizcargui (1480-1540) 2’26 25. Pavane – Pierre Attaignant (1494-1552) 2’54 13. Psalm 6: Jauna, ez nazazula korregi – Traditional Basque / J. Haranburu 3’36 26. Letter from Elcano to Charles V – Arrival in the Moluccas Islands 0’57 14. Tiento para órgano – Luis Alberto de Gómez, 16th century 1’48 27. Lagu togal – Traditional from the Moluccas Islands 2’58 On the trail of the Basque sailors: Songs that have crossed the ocean and back 15. Letter to Philip II – Lope de Agirre, 1561 1’35 16. Le Biscayenne – Traditional / Marin Marais 1’17 CD 2 17. Jota – Manuscritos de Cortabarria, 17th century 2’07 18. Aista binakoa – R.M. de Azkue’s Songbook. Traditional Basque sailors’ song 1’57 1522 Primus circundedisti me Mi’kmaq and Basque whalers meet 1. Letter from Elcano. Sanlúcar de Barrameda 0’58 19. Mi’kmaq Honour Song – George Paul / Traditional Basque 7’30 2. Ayo visto lo Mappamundi – Popular Sicilian, 16th century 2’55 1534 Ignatius of Loyola & Francis Xavier: The Society of Jesus 1536 The 2nd circumnavigation of the world: Andrés de Urdaneta 3. Mundu zabalera – 12th century music. Lyrics by Xabier Amuriza (1941-) 2’33 20. Nork orain esan lezake – Villancico. Anonymous Basque, 17th century 2’28 4. Baile a 2: A lo Alto y a lo Llano – Traditional Castilian-Basque 3’40 21. My Lady Carey’s Dompe – Anonymous, 16th century 3’48 Masquerade: Remnants of a Ritual 1615 Slaying of the Basques and Vocabula Biscaia 5. Marche de Courteges – Traditional Basque 2’18 22. Marteinn af Frakkaþorpi – Traditional Icelandic-Basque 4’39 6. Danse des Kherestonak – Traditional Basque 2’54 7. Recitation Neska ontziratua – Traditional Basque / Robert Ballard (c.1572-c.1650) 1’44 Cider: The Elixir of Life 8. Neska ontziratua –Traditional Basque / Robert Ballard 3’34 23. Aldapeko – Traditional Basque 2’10 Elcano is granted a coat of arms by Emperor Charles V 9. 2nd letter from Elcano to Charles V – 1522 1’02 Basque Diaspore: The eighth province 10. Round dance: Marinero de la Mar and A lo Llano – Cancionero de Olmeda (Burgos) 5’04 24. Portutxoa fandangoa – Joxean Artze / Traditional Basque 2’47 3_Booklet 119x136 Elcano_Anglais P156_P229.qxp_Mise en page 1 13/03/2019 19:02 Page 164 164 JUAN SEBASTIAN ELKANO ENGLISH 165 25. Nere vizi gucico galdu nai – Villancico. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695) 0’54 26. Fandango – Santiago de Murcia (1673-1739) 3’25 27. Kama goli – In the Erromintxela language, Jon Mirande 1’19 28. El Gineo – Manuscritos de Cortabarria, 17th century 2’01 Programme concept, adaptation of the pieces and production: Miren Zeberio and Enrike Solinís Pablo Martín Caminero Foto: Nomad Studio 3_Booklet 119x136 Elcano_Anglais P156_P229.qxp_Mise en page 1 13/03/2019 19:02 Page 166 166 JUAN SEBASTIAN ELKANO ENGLISH 167 Pilgrim’s Way of St. James, it was a magnet for diverse cultures and a meeting-point for different worlds. Tudela, for example, was the birthplace and centre for outstanding Muslim and Jewish writers, as well as a major trading and shipbuilding city during the 12th-15th centuries, when the River Ebro was navigable as far as the sea. For all these reasons, it is important to study and observe these cultures and their traditions today and to recognize how Re-discovering Elcano much we are reflected in them, to communicate directly with them and to enjoy the whole process. One of the most important changes in the passage from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, as witnessed by Elcano, was the shift in trading and cultural dominance from the Mediterranean axis to the Atlantic, which became the epicentre of transoceanic voyages and trade routes. The Basques played a decisive role in that new conception of the world. Whale hunting, in which they excelled and were pioneers, forced them to develop groundbreaking For those of us who are lucky enough to have been able to travel in space and time with Jordi Savall as members naval engineering skills and to become leaders in a manufacturing industry that led them to plough the oceans and of his ensembles and to learn from each of his projects, launching a new programme with the figure of the pursue the boldest maritime adventures ever seen. They established trading relations with peoples of other outstanding Basque navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano to guide us on a musical journey through his world and his continents such as the First Nations of North America and the inhabitants of Iceland and Sweden. The history times is a congenial task. The premise is clear and the principle is a simple one: music is the quintessential universal of the Basque people and the path towards the first circumnavigation of the Earth that marked the beginnings of language, which has united remote peoples through the ages, as it still does today. The same man who, 500 years globalization are therefore inseparable from that centuries-old naval and maritime history. That early globalization ago, took part in an expedition commanded by Ferdinand Magellan to find the Spice Islands for the Crown of of the planet, with challenges similar to those we see today, unleashed a struggle to dominate the world. In some Castile, and who despite having established a landmark in universal history by circumnavigating the Earth, cases, far from fostering a global spirit, it emphasized differences in response to the danger of individual and is nowadays unknown in much of the world, and yet provides us with a perspective on the past which enhances genuine being swallowed up by the global.