Juan Sebastian Elkano

Alia Vox invite you on a new journey alongside the man who completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth between 1519 and 1521: Juan Sebastian Elkano, a Spanish explorer of Basque origin, took command of the expedition after Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan’s death in the Philippines and returned to Andalusia with 17 other survivors of the 240 man expedition.

Enrike Solinis and his musicians portray the Basque tradition of the young Elkano before embarking for the Villancicos of the New World, the repertoires of Polynesia, the Mollucas and Islam at its peak.

Millenary Vasconia: A Maritime Country

1. Introduction

2. Seikilos’s Epitaph - Anonymous

3. Ale, arraunean - Traditional Basque

12th century: Benjamin of Tudela’s book The Travels of Benjamin ?????? ?????

4. Bashraf jahargah - Darwish Mustapha, 16th century - Text Pio Baroja

5. Raiko - Traditional dance from Macedonia

6. Gurmak itsasoan - Liturgical song / Theobald of Navarre

1435 - The Gypsies arrive in the Basque Country

7. Buselik asirani - Dimitrie Cantemir

15th century: Basque Country: The coming together of Christians, Jews and Muslims

8. Loa loa - Traditional Basque

9. Recited Muwashshaha - Abu al-Abbas Ahmad the “Blind Poet of Tudela”, 12th century

10. Muwashshaha- Abu al-Abbas Ahmad, 12th century / F. Atlan / E. Solinis

11. Si la douleur de mon esprit - Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549)

12. Pavane, Gaillarde & Branle de Champagne - Claude Gervaise (1525-1583)

1487 Getaria, birth of Juan Sebastian Elcano

13. Une batez- Judah ha-Levi (Tudela c. 1070/75- Jerusalem c. 1141)

14. Efthah’ na sefathay / Maitia nun zira - Jewish religious song / Traditional Basque

15. Verrus - Traditional Basque

A global shift: From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic

16. Arratiako dantzak - Traditional from Vizcaya

17. Dos anades, Madre - Johanes Antxieta (1462- 1523)

16th century: Pishonerak; Women of the Port

18. Dindirindin. Ensalada La Bomba - Mateo Flecha (1481-1553)

19. Amorosen partizia - Bernat Etxepare (c. 1480- 1545)

20. Pabanea - Osborn Manuscript Collection 16th century 1519

Seville: The Expedition of Ferdinand Magellan

21. Santa Maria, strela do dia - (Prison song). Popular Andalusian

22. Quid est tibi / Mare vidit - Michael Navarrus (Pamplona, 1563-1627) 1521

Strait of Magellan and Magellan’s death at the Battle of Mactan

23. Journal of Pigafetta

24. Itsasoa laino dago - Traditional Basque

25. Pavane - Pierre Attaignant (1494-1552)

26. Letter from Elcano to Charles V - Arrival in the Moluccas Islands

27. Lagu togal - Traditional from the Moluccas Islands

1. Letter from Elcano. Sanlucar de Barrameda

2. Ayo visto lo Mappamundi - Popular Sicilian, 16th century

1534 - Ignatius of Loyola & Francis Xavier: The Society of Jesus

3. Mundu zabalera - 12th century music. Lyrics by Xabier Amuriza (1941)

4. Baile a 2: A lo Alto y a lo Llano - Traditional Castilian-Basque

Masquerade: Remnants of a Ritual

5. Marche de Courteges - Traditional Basque

6. Danse des Kherestonak - Traditional Basque

7. Recitation Neska ontziratua - Traditional Basque / Robert Ballard (c.1572-c.1650)

8. Neska ontziratua -Traditional Basque / Robert Ballard

Elcano is granted a coat of arms by Emperor Charles V

9. 2nd letter from Elcano to Charles V - 1522

10. Round dance: Marinero de la Mar and A lo Llano - Cancionero de Olmeda (Burgos) 1526

Final expedition to the Moluccas and Elcano’s testament

11. Sumba Song - Traditional Malayo-Polynesian song

12. Elcano’s testament - Salve Regina - Martinez de Bizcargui (1480-1540) 13. Psalm 6: Jauna, ez nazazula korregi - Traditional Basque / J. Haranburu

14. Tiento para organo - Luis Alberto de Gomez, 16th century

On the trail of the Basque sailors: Songs that have crossed the ocean and back

15. Letter to Philip II - Lope de Agirre, 1561

16. Le Biscayenne - Traditional / Marin Marais

17. Jota - Manuscritos de Cortabarria, 17th century

18. Aista binakoa - R.M. de Azkue’s Songbook. Traditional Basque sailors’ song

Mi’kmaq and Basque whalers meet

19. Mi’kmaq Honour Song - George Paul / Traditional Basque 1536

The 2nd circumnavigation of the world: Andres de Urdaneta

20. Nork orain esan lezake - Villancico. Anonymous Basque, 17th century

21. My Lady Carey’s Dompe - Anonymous, 16th century 1615

Slaying of the Basques and Vocabula Biscaia

22. Marteinn af Frakka?orpi - Traditional Icelandic- Basque

Cider: The Elixir of Life

23. Aldapeko - Traditional Basque

Basque Diaspore: The eighth province

24. Portutxoa fandangoa - Joxean Artze / Traditional Basque

25. Nere vizi gucico galdu nai - Villancico. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695)

26. Fandango - Santiago de Murcia (1673-1739) 27. Kama goli - In the Erromintxela language, Jon Mirande 28. El Gineo - Manuscritos de Cortabarria, 17th century