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| Disc No: GMCD 7333 |
The Pocket Opera Company’s SUFI/BACH summer concerts as part of the 2008 Zurich festival presented a unique encounter between orient and occident on a musical level: Sufi songs (with dervish dancing) and Bach’s cantatas BWV 93 and 107. Orthodox Islam as well as some Christians are weary of the inherent power of music to elicit sensual pleasure and thus subjugate the power of the word. Thus, Saint Hieronymus rejected singing as the making of the devil. His view was defeated, however, by Saint Ambrosias, who introduced music, an angelic art, into liturgy, as a means to express the inexpressible. Islam, however, to this day includes the Order of the Sufi which is dedicated to music and consciously uses the power of music to elicit trance and ecstasy as a religious practice, thus allowing for pleasure and sensual experience. |
| Price: Sek. 157 | |
| Name: Sufi / Bach - Orient meets Occident | |
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| Composer | Name | Performer |
| Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) | Cantata BWV 93 | Choir: Eva Oltiványi, soprano Roswitha Müller, alto Simon Witzig, tenor René Perler, bass Die Freitagsakademie on period instruments - Howard Griffiths Stephen Smith, chamber organ |
| SUFI | Ney Taksimi - Ney improvisation | Sufi-Ensemble: Burhan Öçal, leader and kudum Mustafa Özoruç, soloist Ahmet Kaya, neyzen Hulisi Babalik, tanbur Sercan Halili, kemençe Serkan Mesut Halili, kanun Volkan Gümüslü, keman |
| SUFI | Segâh chorale: Tekbir - Prayer | |
| SUFI | Segâh chorale: Salâtü ümmiyye - Praise the Prophet | |
| SUFI | Hüzzam chorale: Ey Allahım Beni senden ayırma - Oh my Allah don’t separate me from you | |
| SUFI | Segâh chorale: Dinle Sözümü sana direm, özge edadır - Listen to my message | |
| SUFI | Tanbur Taksimi, Hicaz chorale: Mevlam sana ersem diye - Tanbur improvisation, My Lord I reach out to you | |
| SUFI | Hicaz chorale: Gece gündüz döne döne - Whirling Day and Night | |
| SUFI | Hicaz chorales: Gelin gidelim efendim/Gönül hayran oluptur ask elinden/Allah hu allah - Let’s go my Lord/The heart admires the cause of love/Oh lovers Illallah Hu! | |
| SUFI | Kanun taksimi ve Keman taksimi - Kanun and keman improvisation | |
| Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) | Cantata BWV 107 | Choir: Eva Oltiványi, soprano Roswitha Müller, alto Simon Witzig, tenor René Perler, bass Die Freitagsakademie on period instruments - Howard Griffiths Stephen Smith, chamber organ |