Genre World | ||
Members Osman Nuri Özpekel, Taner Sayacıoğlu, Aziz Şükrü Özoğuz Albums Lalezar - Music Of The Sultans, Sufis & Seraglio, Volume 2 - Music Of The Dancing Boys Record labels Traditional Crossroads, TFM Müzik Film Similar Şerif Muhittin Targan, Cinuçen Tanrıkorur, Hasan Esen, Murat Salim Tokaç, Avni Anil | ||
The Lalezar Ensemble is a musical ensemble which performs Ottoman classical music, is based in Istanbul, and is, "spearheading," the revival of Ottoman music.
Contents
Female vocalist Selma Sagbas stands in for the male castrati that was traditional from the 16th-19th centuries while the kanun, a Turkish board zither, is also featured.
Releases
They released a four volume series on the Traditional Crossroads label:
In collaboration with Lalezar, Armenian-American musician Harold Hagopian spent three years to mix, annotate, and package the four volume series, causing the ensemble to increase their repertoire of pieces by Armenian composers.
Songs
Neş'eyle Geçen ÖmrümüLalezar - Music Of The Sultans - Sufis & Seraglio - Volume 3 - Minority Composers · 2001
Gönülden bağlıydım - sana yakındımArmenian Composers of Instanbul Vol II · 2009
Hala KanayanLalezar - Music Of The Sultans - Sufis & Seraglio - Volume 3 - Minority Composers · 2001