Kanun Music

Dimitrie Cantemir - Istanbul: The Book of Science of Music
Hespèrion XXI / Jordi Savall - Gursoy Dincer, Lior Elmaleh & Montserrat Figueras
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 348 MB | Full Artwork: 726 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Alia Vox # AVSA9870 | Country/Year: Spain 2009
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque, World Classical

“This is a typical Alia Vox Hesperion release: sumptuously packaged, richly illustrated, and supported by edifying scholarly notes about the music and its historical context. It's recorded in clear yet atmospheric sound…In addition to the late Montserrat Figueras, there is wonderful singing by the Israeli Lior Elmaleh ad the Turk Gursoy Dincer.” ~BBC Music Magazine

Dimitrie Cantemir - Istanbul: The Book of Science of Music
Hespèrion XXI / Jordi Savall - Gursoy Dincer, Lior Elmaleh & Montserrat Figueras
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 3,29 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,13 GB | Full Artwork: 786 MB
Label/Cat#: Alia Vox # AVSA9870 | Country/Year: Spain 2009 | 5% Recovery Info
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque, World Classical

“This is a typical Alia Vox Hesperion release: sumptuously packaged, richly illustrated, and supported by edifying scholarly notes about the music and its historical context. It's recorded in clear yet atmospheric sound…In addition to the late Montserrat Figueras, there is wonderful singing by the Israeli Lior Elmaleh ad the Turk Gursoy Dincer.” ~BBC Music Magazine

The recordings by Isaac Algazi (b. İzmir / Turkey 1889, d. Montevideo / Uruguay 1950) presented here are a precious testimony to Sephardi musical traditions in the last decades of the Ottoman period. Beginning in the 1920s there was not a single Jewish home in Turkey with a gramophone that did not possess Algazi’s records, and by the late 1930s he was known throughout Turkey and beyond as ne’im zemirot Israel (Sweet Singer of Israel; an expression originally used to refer to King David). Algazi was admired not only by Jews but also by Turks – who considered him one of their greatest musicians, honoring him with the titles of Efendi and Hoca (hodja = Master).

American Festival of Microtonal Music Ensemble - Ear Gardens (2006) {Pitch P-200209}
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© 2006 Pitch / American Festival of Microtonal Musi | P-20020
Classical / Avant-Garde / Microtonal / Minimalism

The American Festival of Microtonal Music, Inc. (AFMM), was founded by Johnny Reinhard to showcase past and contemporary microtonal music and to introduce microtonality to the listening public. Through his direction of the AFMM and his other individual efforts, Reinhard has almost singlehandedly revived public awareness of microtonality in the 1990's. The AFMM has become a leader in new music activity today.

"It was in the 18th century that the seraglio first excited Western European imagination, not least as a result of the Arabian Nights, which, first published in Europe in 1704, owed its immense and immediate popularity to its combination of the most daring intellectuality and consummate sensuality. With YEHUDI (the Ottoman word for Jew), L'Orient Imaginaire seeks to revive the centuries-old tradition of Jewish music at the court of Constantinople.
THE ANCIENT ORIENT, a land of vivid fantasies, fairy tales and legends. Throughout time, crusaders, adventurers, poets and lovers have all sought to unlock its languishing mysteries in order to gaze upon such a forbidden and unattainable world. In the end, they could only perceive the vision - the Orient of the imagination.".