Various Artist

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.

• 1 setaraban taksim - udi neset bey
• 2 feryat - hafiz cernal bey
• 3 huzzam taksim - eyyubi mustafa sunar bey
• 4 hicazkar pesrev - nubar bey and ibrahim bey
• 5 huseyni taksim - neyzen tevfik efendi
• 6 sehnaz taksim - kanumi artaki efendi
• 7 yare varsin - hafiz cernal bey
• 8 eyvah o benim taksim - refik fersan bey