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Ashenafi Kebede - The Shepherd Flutist

Undoubtedly Ashenafi's most famous piece, it is rarely heard outside Ethiopia, and then in the form of an old, distorted recording that often circulates, or in the excellent piano rendition by Girma Yifreshewa, but it lacks the magnificence of the full orchestration. This 1968 digitally remastered recording, by the Hungarian State Orchestra, and with Lóránt Kovács on the flute, does the piece justice. Ashenafi, the most celebrated Ethiopian composer, wrote the piece in 1967 and it premiered in Hungary that year, leading to him being hailed as "the African Kodaly", after Zoltán Kodály, the Hungarian composer. The piece evokes the traditional washint, a flute used in traditional Ethiopian music. In 1963 he founded the Saint Yared School of Music, was designated the "National Composer" in 1967, and was a recipient of the Haile Selassie Prize. The engraving is of the "Vale of Caalat", drawn by Henry Salt and published in 1809. It shows Chetzin Calat in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Three tribal men carrying spears stand on a small, elevated plateau which overlooks a desert valley framed by towering rock formations in the middle distance.