Safa - Alexandre Dumas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This work of a few hours to deliver an almost complete history of political Islam. This ideology which was born and which has evolved in the shadow of the Great History of Muslim civilization has been nourished, in each era, by particular contexts and internal struggles. Commonly called Islamism, this thought - which instrumentalizes literalist readings of the Islamic corpus - is little known. This set allows us to better understand it's origins, to know the ideologues and theorists who popularized it and who propagated it.Inch (Mohamed SIFAOUI) Mohamed Sifaoui, journalist and writer, specializes in issues of political Islam and terrorism. In clear and precise language, he tells us about the history of political Islam, transmits to us the results of his research for more than 30 years.

Remembered today for the Olympic Anthem, Spyridon Samaras was the most distinguished Greek composer of his day and the first to gain international recognition. By the time Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle was produced, Samaras was a well-established and much-admired opera composer in the Italian Romantic style. The narrative of the opera sees the mischievous plans of the Duke of Richelieu descending into a complex tangle of amorous deceptions, tests of faithfulness and the perils of dueling. The score for this world premiere recording has been painstakingly restored by Byron Fidetzis.

The present is a world premiere recording of the complete edition of the Sacri Musicali Affetti by Barbara Strozzi, a figure of great importance among the various women musicians of the seventeenth century. Her works went on printed editions for her to be recognized and appreciated as a composer, and not just as an instrumentalist or singer. She was on the Venetian intellectual scene thanks to her connection with the poet and playwright Giulio Strozzi (of whom Barbara is most likely an illegitimate daughter), a fundamental figure in the institution of the Venetian musical theater, and soon appreciated by musicians and writers of cultural circles from Venice. The Aurata Fonte ensemble, specializing in the Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, accompanies the sopranos Anna Simboli and Miho Kamiya with period instruments in the performance of this collection of sacred motets for solo voice where the composer's mastery and refinement is revealed by alternating theatrical and dramatic effects in the name of a marked vocal virtuosity. To be noted at one point the explicit mentioning of the great Claudio Monteverdi, placing by right her work in his musical wake.