Afif Bulos Alvarez - Classical Arabic Music In Stock German-born pianist Uta Weyand comes

German-born pianist Uta Weyand comes from a musical family

After studying at the Mozarteum and the Juilliard School in New York

I enjoyed both performances enormously

hit the US market as a 12" single in 1982 and was a funky bass-driven club hit

Afif Bulos Alvarez - Classical Arabic Music In Stock German-born pianist Uta Weyand comesLebanese musicologist Dr. Afif Alvarez Bulos and his ensemble present a recital of Arabic muwashahat music in this 1976 release. Muwashah is a type of vocal composition common in modern classical Arabic songs which follows the rules of muwashah poetry with respect to the number of lines, the length of the line, meter, and rhyme. This album showcases both the older Spanish Andalusian muwashahat, which dates to medieval times, and the modern muwashahat