David Dalle
Thursday February 20th, 2020 with David Dalle
Abdel Aziz El Mubarak, Ballake Sissoko, Constantinople, Beethoven and more
Today we being with a farewell to the popular Sudanese singer Abdel Aziz El Mubarak who died on Feb. 6th. He became very popular in Sudan in the 1970's and usually performed with a big band, today we hear him in a much more intimate recording with El Mubarak accompanying his warm and rich singing on Oud with percussion and accordion.
We also hear from Ballake Sissoko and his trio 3MA which comprises himself on kora, along with Driss El Maloumi on Oud, and Rajery on valiha. More music from Constantinople who are playing tonight in Ottawa with First Nations and Tuvan musicians(!)
https://musicandbeyond.ca/event/constantinople-souffles-breathings/
Maybe some Beethoven to round things off.
| Afra El-Helwa Abdel Aziz El Mubarak, Azhari Abdel Gadir, El Zubier Mohamed El Hassan - Sounds of Sudan - World Circuit |
| Ya Izzana Abdel Aziz El Mubarak, Azhari Abdel Gadir, El Zubier Mohamed El Hassan - Sounds of Sudan - World Circuit |
| Ma Kunta Aarif Yarait Abdel Aziz El Mubarak - Two Niles to sing a melody: the violins & synths of Sudan - Ostinato Records |
| Madjam Mahilkamen Tinariwen - Amadjar - Wedge/Anti |
| two weeks ago on a flight from the US to Paris, the unique custom-made Kora of the great master Ballake Sissoko, was completely destroyed by the American Customs. The label No Format under which he has released several albums in his large discography, has started a GoFundMe campain to raise funds to replace his kora. He was touring with his trio 3MA.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-ballake-sissoko |
| Hanatra 3MA - Anarouz - Six Degrees |
| Mariam 3MA - Anarouz - Six Degrees |
| Aretina 3MA - Anarouz - Six Degrees |
| Mako Mady Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal - Chamber Music - Six Degrees |
| Tamala Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko - Traversees - Ma Case 
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| Marco's Dream Kyriakos Kalaidzidis, En Chordais, Ensemble Constantinople - The Musical Voyages of Marco Polo - World Village/Harmonia Mundi
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| Lamento di Tristano Kyriakos Kalaidzidis, En Chordais, Ensemble Constantinople - The Musical Voyages of Marco Polo - World Village/Harmonia Mundi
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| Migrants Circles Kyriakos Kalaidzidis, En Chordais, Ensemble Constantinople - The Musical Voyages of Marco Polo - World Village/Harmonia Mundi
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| I was reading an article by the period instrument conductor John Eliot Gardiner on his approach to Beethoven and it made me take another look at Gardiner's recordings of Beethoven which were mostly done in the 90's. I thought the most striking point he made was that "Beethoven's orchestra never really existed; it was a figment of his vivid aural imagination. The performances he attended and went through the motions of conducting were with pickup orchestras made up of rather unmotivated Viennese musicians sight-reading this new, incredibly complicated and challenging music on only one rehearsal." Gardiner created his own orchestra the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique modelled on the famous Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire in Paris which was founded in 1828 a year after Beethoven's death. This orchestra was highly motivated and led by François-Antoine Habeneck and underwent thorough rehearsal and revolutionary techniques like unified bowings. They presented the Beethoven symphonies in Paris for the first time between 1828 and 1832, and by all accounts were highly accurate and tremendous performances of these works. Paris at that time was the epicenter of Romantic music and so many young and great Romantic composers, musicians, artists like Berlioz, Schumann, Liszt and many more heard Beethoven's symphonies for the first time at these series. The influence and importance of these symphonies performed in this series in Paris cannot be overstated in European music.
Read his whole fascinating article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/arts/music/beethoven-symphonies-carnegie.html |
| Symphony No. 2 in D Ludwig Van Beethoven/Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner - Complete Beethoven Recordings on Archiv Productions - Archiv Production |
| Zemzeme Constantinople & Belem - Horizons Lointains - Ma Case
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