Sufi/Bach: Orient meets Occident

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Label: Guild

Cat No: GMCD7333

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 15th March 2010

Artists

Sufi-Ensemble Burhan Ocal
Die Freitagsakademie

Conductor

Howard Griffiths

Artists

Sufi-Ensemble Burhan Ocal
Die Freitagsakademie

Conductor

Howard Griffiths

About

The Pocket Opera Company’s Sufi/Bach summer concerts, as part of the 2008 Zurich festival, presented a unique encounter between orient and occident on a musical level: Sufi songs (with dervish dancing) and Bach’s cantatas BWV 93 and 107.

Orthodox Islam, as well as some Christians, are weary of the inherent power of music to elicit sensual pleasure and thus subjugate the power of the word. Thus, Saint Hieronymus rejected singing as the making of the devil. His view was defeated, however, by Saint Ambrosias, who introduced music, an angelic art, into liturgy, as a means to express the inexpressible.

Islam, however, to this day includes the Order of the Sufi, which is dedicated to music and consciously uses the power of music to elicit trance and ecstasy as a religious practice, thus allowing for pleasure and sensual experience. The famous circular dance of the Dervish is an example of this.

By juxtaposing both forms of music, riveting the Zurich audiences in the fully packed church, we explored both commonalities and differences between Islam and Christianity while discovering a similarly mystical effect of music in approaching spirituality in both religions. Our production explored the possibility of transporting the idealised world of both religions into a sensual experience, even achieving ecstatic effects with Bach’s formally strict cantatas.

Contents:
- Cantata BWV 93 (J S Bach)
- Ney Taksimi - Ney improvisation (Sufi)
- Segâh chorale: Tekbir - Prayer (Sufi)
- Segâh chorale: Salâtü ümmiyye - Praise the Prophet (Sufi)
- Hüzzam chorale: Ey Allahým Beni senden ayýrma - Oh my Allah don’t separate me from you (Sufi)
- Segâh chorale: Dinle Sözümü sana direm, özge edadýr - Listen to my message (Sufi)
- Tanbur Taksimi, Hicaz chorale: Mevlam sana ersem diye - Tanbur improvisation, My Lord I reach out to you (Sufi)
- Hicaz chorale: Gece gündüz döne döne - Whirling Day and Night (Sufi)
- Hicaz chorales: Gelin gidelim efendim/Gönül hayran oluptur ask elinden/Allah hu allah - Let’s go my Lord/The heart admires the cause of love/Oh lovers Illallah Hu! (Sufi)
- Kanun taksimi ve Keman taksimi - Kanun and keman improvisation (Sufi)
- Cantata BWV 107 (J S Bach)

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