Turkey I

 TURKEY I

A MUSICAL ANTHOLOGY OF THE ORIENT / UNESCO COLLECTION

Edited for the International Mucic Council by the International Institute
for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation

Commentary in English, French, German

 Bärenreiter Musicaphon, BM30 L 2019

Published between 1966 and 1971 this first LP about Turkey is the 19th album of this wonderful series numbering 32 LPs altogether. The German label was founded in 1960 and issued other colllections like An Anthology of African Music. Some albums have been reissued by Rounder but the 2 LPs about Turkey are not.
The general editor was the French musicologist Alain Daniélou (1907-1994). He sometimes wrote the presentation texts but here it is Bernard Mauguin who wrote the commentary and who also recorded the musicians.

Turkey I features the music of the Mevlevi whose role is to bring the performers/believers to a state of mystic exaltation. Track 1 is a long prayer sung in Persian by the outstanding singer Kani Karaca. Track 2 is a taksim/improvisation by the ney but it is not precised who between Halil Can, Ulvi Erguner and Niyazi Sayin is the performer. Then the other tracks feature the full ensemble of the singers and the musicians until the last track which concludes with a taksim of tanbur by Necdet Yaşar.

Only the notes in English are posted here.

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