Various Artists: To Scratch Your Heart - Early Recordings From IstanbulVarious Artists: To Scratch Your Heart - Early Recordings From IstanbulVarious Artists: To Scratch Your Heart - Early Recordings From IstanbulVarious Artists: To Scratch Your Heart - Early Recordings From Istanbul
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Various Artists: To Scratch Your Heart - Early Recordings From Istanbul

Superior hard cover packaging w/ booklet, drawn from recordings made in Istanbul during the first three decades of the 20th century

The music here is so transfixing, intensely devotional and sublimely beautiful, that some contemporary listeners thought they were levitating.
Drawn from recordings made in Istanbul by the Gramophone Company and HMV, during the first three decades of the twentieth century, amidst the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, it crosses and mixes the folk and classical heritage of Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Gypsies, Muslims, Christians and Jews, urbanites and country-people, and the demands of tradition and modernity, musical improvisation, composition and system.
Brilliantly restored at Abbey Road, fully annotated with rare photographs, and luxuriously presented in both formats.

Most of the singers here are 'hafiz', versed in a musical reading of the Koran, and renowned for mastery of the exalted, improvisatory form of the 'gazel': there are several magnificent examples here, by legendary artists. Three gazelhans beautifully interpret folk songs, and another contributor, the folklorist Agyazar Efendi, sings a long Armenian air with utter authenticity, but in the style of a gazel. Exemplifying the new political freedoms of the Republic, there are two heart-melting female vocal performances of a kind of art-song called 'sarki'. Also featured is the 'taksim', a kind of improvisation in which one-off musical fireworks, designed to ravish the listener's soul, illuminate deep fluency in the 'makam': a who's who of the pre-eminent instrumentalists of this first half-century of Turkish recording, in performances which are simply stunning — breath-taking, exquisite and other-worldly.

Various Artists: To Scratch Your Heart - Early Recordings From Istanbul

Udi Neset Bey & Company: To Scratch Your Heart

Superior hard cover packaging w/ booklet, drawn from recordings made in Istanbul during the first three decades of the 20th century

Udi Neset Bey: Setaraban Taksim3:19AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Selanikli Apti Efendi: Sende Acep3:18AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Agyazar Efendi: Murat Kenarinda3:17AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Eyyubi Mustafa Sunar Bey: Evc Ara Taksim3:19AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Hafiz Cemal Bey: Feryat3:17AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Fikriye Hanim: Ateslik Eder3:05AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Hafiz Asir Efendi: Kesik Kerem3:05AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Udi Nevres Bey: Aksam Oldu3:04AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Eyyubi Mustafa Sunar Bey: Huzzam Taksim3:20AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Aleko Bacanos Efendi: Segah Taksim3:23AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Muserref Hanim: Kim Derdi Ki3:28AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Kamil Efendi: Hicaz Taksim 13:18AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Hafiz Sami: Derdime Vakif Degilim3:04AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Nubar Bey and Ibrahim Bey: Hicazkar Pesrev3:45AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Hafiz Mahmut Bey: Bulbulun Ezeli3:14AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Emin Taninmis Efendi: Rast Taksim3:15AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Neyzen Tevfik Efendi: Huseyni Taksim3:13AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Udi Neset Bey: Nihavent Taksim3:20AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Balikesirli Tanburi Fuat Bey and Nezihe Hanim: Ninni3:13AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Nafi Bey: Derdime Vakif Degilim3:41AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Kanuni Artaki Efendi: Sehnaz Taksim3:21AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Munir Nurettin Bey: Madem Ki Vardi Hicran3:37AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Yozgatli Hafiz Suleyman Bey: Ben Nasil Ah Etmeyeyim3:22AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Tanburi Ibrahim Bey: Huzzam Taksim3:57AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Hafiz Cemal Bey: Yare Varsin3:25AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Anastas Efendi: Nihavent Taksim2:52AIFF € 1.25MP3 € 1.00
Udi Marko Colakoglu Efendi: Hacer-Ul Esved Imis3:16AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Yorgo Bacanos Efendi: Huseyni Taksim3:23AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Belkis Hanim: Eyvah O Benim Talihime3:35AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Refik Fersan Bey: Milli Yegah Taksim3:17AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Sevket Bey: Huseyni Kuzu3:24AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Eyyubi Mustafa Sunar Bey: Hicaz Taksim3:22AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25

The music here is so transfixing, intensely devotional and sublimely beautiful, that some contemporary listeners thought they were levitating.
Drawn from recordings made in Istanbul by the Gramophone Company and HMV, during the first three decades of the twentieth century, amidst the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, it crosses and mixes the folk and classical heritage of Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Gypsies, Muslims, Christians and Jews, urbanites and country-people, and the demands of tradition and modernity, musical improvisation, composition and system.
Brilliantly restored at Abbey Road, fully annotated with rare photographs, and luxuriously presented in both formats.

Most of the singers here are 'hafiz', versed in a musical reading of the Koran, and renowned for mastery of the exalted, improvisatory form of the 'gazel': there are several magnificent examples here, by legendary artists. Three gazelhans beautifully interpret folk songs, and another contributor, the folklorist Agyazar Efendi, sings a long Armenian air with utter authenticity, but in the style of a gazel. Exemplifying the new political freedoms of the Republic, there are two heart-melting female vocal performances of a kind of art-song called 'sarki'. Also featured is the 'taksim', a kind of improvisation in which one-off musical fireworks, designed to ravish the listener's soul, illuminate deep fluency in the 'makam': a who's who of the pre-eminent instrumentalists of this first half-century of Turkish recording, in performances which are simply stunning — breath-taking, exquisite and other-worldly.