Various Artists - Porta D'oriente - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A 17th-century manuscript that was compiled by Albert Bobowski, a Polish musician and orientalist, contains songs of the Italian Renaissance and the Ottoman court. Bobowski, alias Ali Ufki, was born around 1610 in Poland and worked in Constantinople at the Ottoman court, where he related to many European diplomats, clerics and travelers as translator, language teacher, mediator and advisor. Thanks to his diverse skills and profound knowledge of the Islamic-Ottoman and Christian-European cultures, he became a valued mediator between the two worlds during his lifetime. In this collection of European and Ottoman vocal and instrumental, sacred and secular, court and popular music, Ali Ufki switches between languages and music genres with a fantastic ease and naturalness. Together with the Italian tenor Marco Beasley Album Tracks 1. Dalla Porta Doriente 2. Zarb-E Fath 3. Quest'amore, Quest'arsura 4. Che Si Può Fare 5. Uyan Ey Gözlerim Gefletten Uyan 6. Prologo Alla Notte (Spoken Words) 7. Notte 8. Fath-E BÂB 9. Fronni D'alia / Ey Sârebân (Sufi Traditional) 10. Versi (Spoken Words) 11. Dialogo Dei Duellanti 12. La Canella 13. La Campana Sona! 14. Samai Frenci 15. Samai Nishaburak 16. Como Sencza la Vita 17. Kürdi Pishrow 18. Compendium Tarantulae 19. Morte Di Clorinda