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Amit Goldenberg | Zman Yerushalayim | 19.06.09

Adumat ha-Sefatot is the album of a performance that opened the Oud Festival in 2007. Even then, it was clear that this is a project that could turn into something one could take home. In an interview I conducted a year ago with Effie Benaya, the Festival's director, I asked about progress on the album, discussed over these past two years: "Pretty soon, we're waiting?" he replied with enthusiasm.

All of the promise held by the collaboration of two successful musicians is fulfilled in this new album, the finest Sacharof has produced since his "Negi'ot." The ancient link to the words of Ibn Gabirol, the complex melodies, the rich orchestration - all successfully bring the combination of new and old to perfection. »

כבוד למגזר

Amit Goldenberg | Kol ha-Zman | 14.11.08

Today, nine years since its inception, the Oud Festival succeeds in drawing enormous audiences from across the country, filling halls with hundreds of people who ride an express highway into the past. The traditional production is truly a cultural institution in Jerusalem - and an important event bringing Jews and Arabs closer to one another. »

עוד, לא אבדה תקוותינו

David Erez | Israel Post | 04.11.08

It is still to early to announce the revival of a musical Golden Age in the Middle East, but the Oud Festival, which continues to gain popularity and momentum, is certainly a harbinger of hope in this bloodied zone of conflict.

...the Oud Festival, in its finest tradition, will bring together cultures of the Middle East and farther afield, focusing upon the oud, "the king of Arabic musical instruments", alongside its relatives from other cultures: lute, kamanja, saz, guitar, cello, and violin. This year the Festival will bring us music from Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, Greece, Sicily and, for the first time, Rajasthan in northern India. »