IHSAN OZGEN: Masterworks of Itri & Meragi

Ihsan Ozgen

Masterworks of Itri & Meragi

© 1998 Golden Horn Productions, Inc. (634015980820)

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Interpreting the classical compositions of a famous 17th Century composer and poet Itri and 14th Century composer Meragi. This CD applies both old and new, Western and Eastern techniques and conventions.

tracks

1 Rast Na't-I Serif [Itri]
2 Tanbur Taksim
3 Ses Avaz Kar [Meragi]
4 Kemence Taksim
5 Bestanigar Beste [Itri]
6 Ney Taksim
7 Rebab Taksim
8 Segah Kar [Meragi]
9 Ney Taksim
10 Buselik Beste [Itri]
11 Tanbur Taksim
12 Hisar Agir Semai
13 Ney Taksim
14 Violoncello Taksim
15 Rast Nakis Beste [Meragi] Kemence Taksim

notes

Anatolia (Ozgen's Ensemble) reflects the changing work and musical outlook of Ihsan Özgen.

The varieties of musical genres which combine under the aegis of the ensemble, incorporating influences both eastern and western, have worked a powerful influence on its members.

Different musical genres, which came into existence and grew in Anatolia, are the basis of Anatolia Ensemble.

It was influenced by the fact that people who have migrated from Central Asia have combined their own pentatonic music with that from Iran, various Arabic countries, the Byzantine tradition, the Balkans, the Aegean and the Mediterranean, which has resulted in new genres.

How does Anatolia make use of this rich material? By introducing a new expression; by championing a modern polyphonic approach; and within its unique performance style, where a dynamic profundity and improvisational bravado are taken up as two important aims of the group.

New sounds are being formed as well as the working of rhythmic and melodic changes in the rearranging process of anonymous works or of works composed earlier.

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