Pera Ensemble

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...

One God: Psalms and Hymns from Orient & Occident

1 CD / Ludi Musici / 2010-10-10

Works: Mehmet Cemal Yesilçay: Psalm 2, psalm setting for voice & ensemble (after Claude Goudimel and Ali Ufkî); Psalm 5, psalm setting for voice & ensemble (after Claude Goudimel and Ali Ufkî...
Performers: Özer, Ihsan; Özhan, Ahmet; Crowe, Robert; De La Rosee, Arno Jochem; Nachtsheim, Andreas; Rath, Stephan; Yesilçay, Mehmet Cemal; Yilmaz, Volkan
Conductors: Yesilçay, Mehmet Cemal
Ensemble: Pera Ensemble

Named after an area of Istanbul in which people of different origins, races, religions and cultures have rubbed shoulders since time immemorial, the Pera Ensemble...continue...
Recording information: Berlin, Germany (2008); Istanbul, Turkey (2008); Munich, Germany (2008)....continue...