Event Program

Echoes of Byzantium

Led by Montreal based Lamia Yared, singer and oud player of Classical Arabic and Ottoman music, on a journey from the Byzantine Empire, with stops at different moments in time, from Syria, when the first Christians in the East sang their songs, to Constantinople for its Phanariot Greek hymns and chants, to the classical Ottoman songs. A wonderful voyage in sound through these neighbouring regions that have given rise to musical traditions as rich as they are varied.

صدى البيزنطيين

حفل بقيادة لمياء يارد، المغنية وعازفة العود المتخصصة في الارث الموسيقي العربي والعثماني القديم ، يأخذك في رحلة من الإمبراطورية البيزنطية عبر محطات مختلفة في سوريا ، عندما غنى المسيحيون الأوائل في الشرق أغانيهم ، إلى القسطنطينية حيث الترانيم والأناشيد اليونانية والأغاني العثمانية القديمة التي ساهمت في ارساخ التقاليد الموسيقية الغنية والمتنوعة في الشرق الأوسط

Musicians

Lamia Yared - voice and musical direction
Omar Abou-Afach - viola
Abdul-Wahab Kayyali - oud
Joseph Khoury - riqq and bendir
Nizar Tabcharani - qanun

Program

Krathima Mode Ihos A ’
Byzantine hymn - Georgios Kris (Istanbul, 1790)

Btoulto yeldat doumoro
Syriac hymn (7th century)

Iraq Semai - Ali Ufki (Istanbul, 17th century)

Moryomoran- Syro-Maronite song
(Assyria region, 7th century)

Emarleh
Syro-Maronite song (7th century)

Chqal nourono
(Syro-Maronite song, 7th century)

Einai ston kosmon - είναι στον κόσμον και αλλά καλλή
Petros Peloponnesios (Phanariot song, Istanbul, 18th century)

Terrenum Bestenegar Yuruk
Theodoros Fokaeus (Istanbul, 1843)

Sto taxidhi tic zois mou - στο ταξίδι της ζωής μου
Phanariot song
Petros Peloponnesios (Istanbul, 18th century)

Terk eyledi
Zaharya Hanende (Istanbul, 1740)

Kürdîlihicâzkâr Saz Semâî
Kemânî Tatyos Efendi (19th century)

San ta marmara tic polis - Σαν τα μάρμαρα της Πόλης
Secular song from Asia Minor (19th or 20th century)

Muwashah Tif ya Dourri
Sayyed Darwish (dawr part ) Omar El Batch (khana part)

Muwashah Qamaroun Yajlou , Unknown composer

Karabourniotikos - Καραμπουρνιωτικοσ
Folk song from Asia Minor (19th or 20th century)