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Savina
Yannatou
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delicately built singer with the great, enchantingly tender voice, brings
us melody-drunk songs in the Spanish language and folk songs of the Sephardic
Jews as well as songs from Corsica, North Africa, and the Balkans. These
songs could be called the Mediterranean blues. And we have the good fortune
of finding Savina Yanatou --- who strips them of the dust of history and
brings their souls forward. Her voice moves from velvet to the saw, from
a crow’s cry to honey, from the wind to the frog, from dreary darkness
to the sunrise. "Yannatou switched with virtuous agility from medieval modes to baroque and renaissance music, from Ladino songs to Greek and Italian music to touches of 20th century modernism. She is able to do this by virtue of a broad musical education and perfect voice control" |
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