Istanbul: Dimitrie Cantemir

by Hespèrion XXI

Istanbul: Dimitrie Cantemir cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 2009
  • Label: Alia Vox
  • Country: Spain
  • Length: 1:13:00
  • Community rating: 4.3/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded at the Collegiate Church of Cardona, the programme rebuilds the Ottoman court music preserved in Dimitrie Cantemir's 'Book of the Science of Music', a treatise dedicated to Sultan Ahmed III holding some 355 compositions. Turkish, Armenian and Sephardic guests, among them kanun player Hakan Güngör and oud player Yurdal Tokcan, set the court repertory in dialogue with the empire's popular traditions.

Genres

Descriptors: traditional, instrumental, percussive, rhythmic, long-form

Tracklist

  1. Taksim (Kanun, Vièle, Oud, Kemence et Tanbur) (2:48)
  2. Der makām-ı ‘Uzzâl uşūleş Devr-i kebīr - Mss. Dimitri Cantemir (118) (3:03)
  3. Los Paxaricos (Isaac Levy I.59) – Maciço de Rosas (I.Levy III.41) (5:06)
  4. Taksim (Kanun) (1:35)
  5. Der makām-ı Muhayyer uşūleş Muhammes (Mss. D.Cantemir 285) (5:04)
  6. Chant et Danse (2 Duduk et percussion) (4:00)
  7. Taksim (Oud) (1:18)
  8. Der makām-ı Hüseynī Semâ’î (Mss. D.Cantemir 268) (7:48)
  9. El amor yo no savia (I.Levy II.80) (4:08)
  10. Taksim (Lira) (1:32)
  11. Der makām-ı Şūri Semâ’î (Mss. D.Cantemir 256) (3:33)
  12. Lamento: Ene Sarére (2 Duduk) (2:35)
  13. Madre de la gracia (I. Levy III.29) (3:06)
  14. Taksim (Kanun, Tanbur, Santur et Oud) (1:23)
  15. Der makām-ı [Hüseynī] uşūleş Çenber (Mss. D.Cantemir 96) (2:46)
  16. Taksim & Makam «Esmkhetiet-Yis kou ghimeten-Tchim guichi» (7:18)
  17. Taksim (Kanun, Tanbur et Oud) (1:31)
  18. Der makām-ı ‘Uzzâl uşūleş Berevsan (Mss. D.Cantemir 148) (3:20)
  19. Venturoso Mançevo (I. Levy II.58) (4:38)
  20. Taksim (Kemence, Kanun, Oud et Tanbur) (2:50)
  21. Der makām-ı Hüseynī Sakīl-i Ağa Rıżā (Mss. D. Cantemir 89) (3:30)

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