Label: LUDI MUSICI 002
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WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING!!!
CHRISTIAN CANNABICH (1731 – 1798): Les Fetes du Seraïlles (excerpts); WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 – 1791): Zaide (das Serail) KV 334 (336b)(excerpts); SULTAN BAYAZIT HAN II. (1481 – 1512): Nisabur Pesrev; SAKIR AGA (1779 – 1840): Ferahnak Yuruk Semai; SULTAN SELIM HAN III. (1761 – 1808): Suz-I Dilara Beste; TANBURI MUSTAFA CAVUS (? – 1745): Hisarbuselik Sarki
Various pieces; Inverview with Werner Ehrhardt & Mehmet Cemal Yesilcay

Stephanie Elliott, soprano; Georg Poplutz, tenor; Bekir Ünlüataer, voice (Pera-Ensemble)
L’arte del mondo
Pera-Ensemble Istanbul/Werner Ehrhardt
The Ensemble L’Arte del Mondo, founded in 2004, has made within a short period a name by offering innovative programs. Together with the Turkish musicians of the Pera Ensemble (Istanbul) L’Arte del Mondo invites us to join for a musical journey through one of Orient’s most fascinating phenomenons: the harem. Glittering parties, pleasant fragrances and luxury: oriental harems and Serail have fascinated the imagination of people all over Europe in the 18th century. During this period, harem ladies received a high profile education in music, literature, rhetoric and science – they were not only an object of desire, but contributed to intellectual and artistic education and way of life of the Ottoman princes. In the Christian Europe nobody knew what was really happening in the harem. This lack of information about one of the most secret parts of the Palace is the origin of all sort of fantasies and myths – a fascination, which is still nowadays linked with the Harem. Both occidental works, the ballet music “Les Fêtes du Sérailles” by Christian Cannabich, here recorded for the very first time and Mozart’s opera “Zaide” deal with this subject.

Label: LUDI MUSICI 003
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HEINRICH SCHÜTZ (1585-1672): Bringt her dem Herren, SWV 283; NEVA ILAHILER: Sacred Songs in the Sufi tradition of Makam Neva; NAYI ALI DEDE: Bayati Perev; NICOLAS VALLET (ca. 1583-ca. 1642): Psalm 8, arranged for Lute; CLAUDE GOUDIMEL (ca. 1514-1572): Psalms 1-2, 5, 8, 10; ALESSANDRO GRANDI (1586-1630): Egredimini, filiae Sion; Cantabo Domino; LOUIS BOURGOIS (ca. 1510-1560): Psalm 42, Ainsi qu’on oit le cerf bruire ; SALOMONE ROSSI (ca 1570-1630): Elohim hashivenu

ARTISTS: Ahment Özhan, voice; Robert Crowe, male soprano
Vocal Consort Berlin; L’arte del mondo; Pera Ensemble Instanbul/ Mehmet Cemal Yesilcay, director

Named after an area of Istanbul in which people of different origins, races, religions and cultures have rubbed shoulders since time immemorial, the Pera Ensemble was founded in 2005 by two Istanbul musicians, Mehmet Cemal Yesilcay and Ihsan Özer. The ensemble’s concerts combine the tradition of Ottoman music (with its vocal and instrumental virtuosity) with historical and contemporary European music: their performances are informed by musicological and historical research.

Label: LUDI MUSICI 004
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GEORG FRIEDRICH HANDEL (1685 – 1759) - LA LUCREZIA – ITALIAN CANTATAS FOR CONTRALTO & B.C.
Dolce pur d’amor l’affanno HWV 109a; Siete roserugiadose HWV 162
Qualor crudele HWV 151; Fra pensieri quell pensiero HWV 115
Stanco di più soffrire HWV 167a; La Lucrezia (O Numi Eterni) HWV 145

Sonia Prina, contralto

Ensemble La Sfera Armoniosa/Mike Fentross
The philosophy of the label Ludi Musici is to bring to the attention of the public unusual and varied repertoire from the fields of early music and world music, performed by outstanding artists, accompanied by scholarly and engaging articles, elegant packaging, a substantial and lavishly illustrated booklet, all presented in a sumptuous book/CD format that makes each release an eminently collectable objet d’art that will give its owner hours of pleasure.
The new CD La Lucrezia presents Italian cantatas by George Frideric Handel and brings together musicians – contralto Sonia Prina, the ensemble La Sfera Armonica and the conductor Mike Fentross – who are established international artists and offer fresh insights into the repertoire.
DELUXE VERSION

Label: LUDI MUSICI 005
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ARTISTS: Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (Rosinda), Emanuela Galli (Nerea), Makoto Sakurada (Clitofonte, Fulvio Bettini (Rudione), et al. Ensemble La Sfera Armoniosa, Mike Fentross, direction 3 CD SET