Singer Aurora Moreno started her professional singing career in 1976. In 1978 she won a song competition at the Alhama de Granada Festival. Shortly afterwards she started working with the composer and guitarist Esteban Valdivieso. Together they set poems by, among others, Lorca to music. The songs on this CD consist of a selection of Sephardic songs (from Morocco and Turkey) and jarchas. Jarchas
… are poems in the Arabic vernacular of the late Middle Ages, usually preserved with the original melodies. The latter have been interpreted as authentically as possible by Aurora and Esteban. (GO) _more
