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Café: Orient meets Occident / Valer Barna-Sabadus: countertenor; Pera Ensemble

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2012-08-14

Works: Jean-Baptiste Lully: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Nicola Porpora: Polifemo; Semiramide Riconosciuta; Gaspar Sanz: Canarios; Ebu Bekir Aga: Geldi cevher tigi ates barina ay (Eviç Karçe), song; ...
Performers: Barna-Sabadus, Valer; Pera Ensemble Istanbul
Conductors:
Ensemble: Pera Ensemble

The aroma of coffee links East and West in a mysteriously sensual manner. Equally sensual are the sounds of the Pera Ensemble, and their latest...continue...
Recording information: CRR Istanbul (2011).

Several musicians, including Jordi Savall, have tried to get a grip on the substantial musical interchange between western Europe and the Ottoman Tur...continue...

Baroque Oriental: Monteverdi, Ufki, Caccini, Celebi / Pera Ensemble

1 CD / Berlin Classics / 2012-02-14

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 9; Orfeo; La mia turca che d'amor, madrigal for solo voice, SV 310; Anonymous, Italian: Ciaccona di Paradiso, e dell'inferno ("O che bel star"); Ihsan Özer: I...
Performers: Barna-Sabadus, Valer; Esen, Hasan; Ozer, Ihsan Mehmet; Yesilçay, Mehmet Cemal
Conductors: Yesilcay, Mehmet;
Ensemble: Pera Ensemble

In the words of J. W. von Goethe, "Orient and Occident / Cannot be separated ("West-Eastern Divan"). These lines are embodied in the music of...continue...
Recording information: Saarbrücken (05/2010)....continue...

Mare Nostrum / Montserrat Figueras

2 Super Audio CD / Alia Vox / 2012-01-10

Works: Sephardic Traditional: Una matica de ruda; A la una yo nací (Sarajevo); La estrellas de los cielos; Alef, mem, shin (The Three Principles), traditional song; La Armada Turca, folk song (Turkish)...
Performers: Díaz-Latorre, Xavier; Dalal, Yair; Dincer, Gursoy; El Maloumi, Driss; Elmaleh, Lior [Vocals]; Estevan, Pedro; Figueras, Montserrat; Hamon, Pierre; Nedyalkov, Nedyalko; Psonis, Dmitri; Sarikouy...
Conductors: Savall, Jordi;
Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI

Mare Nostrum (Latin for "Our Sea") was a Roman name for the Mediterranean Sea, one of the most important focal points of cultural, political and...continue...
Recording information: Chapelle de la Misericorde, Bordeaux (07/2011); Collégiale de Cardona (Catalogne) (07/2011); Franc-Warêt Church, Namur, Belgium (07/2011); L'Abbaye de Fontfroide (07/2...continue...

Dinastia Borja (The Borgia Dynasty / Hespèrion XXI.

3 Super Audio CD / Alia Vox / 2010-09-14

Works: Traditional Arabic-Andalusian: Billadi Askara Min adbi Llama, traditional mowachah; Anonymous: Le Ductia; Viva el Gran Re Don Fernando; Fortuna Desperata; Un Cavalier Di Spagna, for consort; Fanfare;...
Performers: Elmalich, Lior; Figueras, Montserrat; Lawrence-King, Andrew; Mayoral, David; Nedyalkov, Nedyalko; Vilamajo, Luis; Zanasi, Furio
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Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI

To coincide with the 500th anniversary of the birth of Saint Francis Borgia, Fourth Duke of Gandia, Jordi Savall and Alia Vox offer this visually...continue...

Ludi Musici

1 CD / Alia Vox / 2007-09-11

Works: Afghan Traditional: Laila Djân, song; Berber Traditional: Amazigh Lullaby ("I met my big brother"); Anonymous, Turkish: Makam 'Uzäl Sakil "Turna", traditional melody (Ms. de Kantemiroglu); ...
Performers: Alqhai, Fahmi; Arman, Khaled; Behringer, Michael; Bernal, Miguel; Borras, Josep; Canihac, Jean-Pierre; Carnovich, Daniele; Casademunt, Sergi; Cheetham, Richard; Climent, Lambert; Clos, Marc; Dalal, Y...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Kaboul; Hespèrion XX ; Hespèrion XXI ; Le Concert des Nations

The most danceable and foot-stomping tracks chosen from the recordings Jordi Savall has made for Alia Vox are brought together in this lively seventy-minute collection....continue...

Orient-Occident / Savall, Hespèrion XXI

1 Super Audio CD / Alia Vox / 2006-10-10

Works: Anonymous, Turkish: Makam Rast "Murass'a" usul Düyek, traditional melody (Ms. de Kantemiroglu); Makam Nikriz üsul Berevsân, traditional melody (Ms. de Kantemiroglu); Makam Rast Sem...
Performers: Arman, Khaled; Dalal, Yair; El Maloumi, Driss; Estevan, Pedro; Hashimi, Siar; Hesperion XXI; Psonis, Dimitris; Savall, Jordi

New on Super Audio CD. "This gorgeous instrumental celebration of the links of between medieval cultures across Europe and the near east brings together musicians...continue...
Personnel: Jordi Savall (vielle, lira, rebab, percussion); Yair Dalal (oud); Khaled Arman (rebab); Dimitri Psonis (santur, saz); Pedro Estevan (bendir, deff).

Recording information: La Collegia...continue...

Orient-Occident / Savall, Hespèrion XXI

1 CD / Alia Vox / 2006-09-12

Works: Anonymous, Turkish: Makam Rast "Murass'a" usul Düyek, traditional melody (Ms. de Kantemiroglu); Makam Nikriz üsul Berevsân, traditional melody (Ms. de Kantemiroglu); Makam Rast Sem...
Performers: Arman, Khaled; Dalal, Yair; El Maloumi, Driss; Estevan, Pedro; Hashimi, Siar; Psonis, Dimitris; Savall, Jordi

On his new release 'Orient-Occident,' Jordi Savall presents a fascinating dialogue between instrumental music from ancient Christian, Jewish and Muslim Spain, from medieval Italy and...continue...