Cantigas de Sefarad performs three different shows and four concert programs.
Modalities Concert
• Concert “traditional”:
The group performs during the time it is requested representative works of different styles and genres of Sephardic music (Song lovemaking, epic novels and historical, Biblical novels, captives and prisoners romances, songs and dirges), without explanation of letters, no educational or informative connotations, without dramatization. The musicians perform Jews dressed in medieval costumes, costumes medieval Spain s. XIII or current suits, depending on what is required.
• Concert “informative”:
"Cantigas de Sefarad" plays during a eleventh hour representative works of different styles and genres of Sephardic music, including a brief oral explanation, Previous to music, that historically and socially contextualized to the Sephardim, and explanations about the songs and their lyrics, in line with its interpretation.
• Concert “pedagogical”: “The way of the Sephardic“
This is an educational concert educational and entertaining approach to cultural diversity, to the rich musical and historical context of the Sephardic Jews expelled Spanish-Hebrew name of the Iberian Peninsula- in 1492.
Concert Programs
– “Cantigas de Sefarad“: concert of Sephardic music from all periods and styles, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century (season 2005-2006)
– “Sephardic Romances and canticas“: concert of Sephardic music with modern instruments: classical guitar, cello, tomtom, bells, tambourine and vocals (seasons 2005-2006, 2006-2007)
– “The way of the Sephardic“: educational concert. (since 2005)
-“Abrix mi galanica“: Sephardic music concert classical guitar, cello, pandero bendir, tomtom, bells and voice (season 2006-2007)
-“Sephardic Aragon” : Sephardic music concert whose centerpiece was the repertoire associated with Aragon and water. It was played at the International "Water and Sustainable Development EXPO 20008 ZARAGOZA ", in the "Zaragoza Pavilion" and the House of Cultures of Zaragoza, on October 2008.
-“The king that much madruga”(since 2007): concert based on a repertoire reminiscent and medieval roots, Renaissance and Oriental, with modern and vintage instruments Plucked, bowed string, percussion, solo voice and chorus.
– “Sephardic Juglar Sones” (since 2008): is a concert of Sephardic music-spectacle entirely played on period instruments and vocals, Sephardic repertoire based on medival Christian music: Medieval works troubadour lyric tradition; A ballad of Alfonso X the Wise, a song from the Second Crusade, una canción de cautivos y presos compuesta por el Rey Ricardo I Corazón de León…
– “Minos” (Current season): concert-show consisting of 12 Sephardic songs performed entirely on period instruments (vihuela, Renaissance lute and viola da gamba) and historical percussion, Eastern and Mediterranean (tambourine, tomtom, riqq, drum, atabal, rattlesnakes ...) based on a repertoire reminiscent and medieval roots and oriental .
The repertoire chosen for this show in all its glory shows three poetic-musical genres typical of Sephardic music-romance, the songs and songs lyrics- Sephardic populations in both the Western and Eastern.
The melodies of these songs have been collected in Rhodes and Thessaloniki (Greece), Tetouan (Morocco), Istanbul and Mustafa Paša (Turkey), Yugoslavia and the Balkans, so the concert is Judeo-Spanish music with roots in medieval Spain and Greek influences, Moroccan, Turkish, Balkan. The concert includes brief explanations of the songs and lyrics straight from his interpretation.