[MGSA-L] Shared Byzantine and Ottoman musical traditions - Concert in the Aya Irini Kilisesi Istanbul

Christos D. Katsetos cd_katsetos at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 29 18:49:45 PDT 2016


In the spirit of the Holy Week of Passions leading to the celebration of the Eastern Orthodox Easter, the appended below URL is from a concert that took place in May 2004 at St. Irene Church, Istanbul (Αγία Ειρήνη της Κωνσταντινουπόλεως/Aya Irini Kilisesi Istanbul). The musical mystagogy embodies the kinship of Eastern Roman (Byzantine) and Ottoman musical traditions. This concert was part of a broader project known as "Ilahi-Nagme" that brought together Greek, Armenian, Jewish and Muslim liturgical music. 
The project was spearheaded and directed by Kudsi Ergüner, one of the foremost authorities of his generation on Ottoman Sufi and classical music and was undertaken in collaboration with the late Lykourgos Angelopoulos (1941-2014) professor at the School of Byzantine Chant at the Conservatory of Athens, founder and director of the Greek Byzantine Choir and Archon Protopsaltis (First Chanter) of the Holy Archdiocese of Constantinople. 
In the Aya Irini Kilisesi concert, the Greek Byzantine Choir was directed by the late Lykourgos Angelopoulos and comprised a repertoire of Byzantine liturgical music and hymnology. Director Kudsi Ergüner (flauto ney), Derya Türkan (kemençe) and the choral of Istanbul Muezzins interpreted the works of Ottoman composers of the 15th-17th centuries.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-fTHpg-iXE

N.B. A similar concert also took place in Torino in September 2010 under the title "Da Bisanzio a Istanbul. Canti liturgici cristiano ortodossi e musulmani".http://www.mitosettembremusica.it/sites/mitosettembremusica.it/files/merc_22_ore_21_bisanzio.pdf

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