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Browse by Label: INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE (FRANCE)
Artist:
VA
Title:
A Tribute To Oum Kalsoum
Label:
INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE (FRANCE)
Format:
CD
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
IDMA 321070
"In June 2001, on the occasion of the second Music Festival, the Institut du Monde Arabe paid a resounding tribute to the great lady of Arab song. The same concert, an exceptional event, was then given as part of the 'Les Orientales Festival' at Saint-Florent-Le-Vieil. It brought together a new generation of performers from various Arab nations such as Karima Skalli (Morocco), Abir Nasraoui (Tunisia), and Riham Abdelhakim (Egypt), accompanied by the National Arab Music Ensemble of the Cairo Opera, conducted by Salim Sahhab. This album offers you live recordings of the best moments from the two concerts, as well as some of the most beautiful and moving songs associated with the 'Star of the East.'"
Artist:
BOUHASSOUN, WAED
Title:
A Voice For Love
Label:
INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE (FRANCE)
Format:
CD
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
IDMA 321071
"'A voice for love' is how some have described Waed Bouhassoun, a talented Syrian musician who sings to her own accompaniment on the lute. The youthful Bouhassoun is undoubtedly the embodiment of love, as is borne out by the choice of poems and texts for this, her first recording. Sometimes with strength, sometimes with fragility, her voice intensifies emotion and meaning to the point of ecstasy in the poems of Ibn Zaydoun, Jalal-Eddine, Rumi, Wallada or even Tahar Abou Facha and Mahmoud Bayram al Tounissi, the famous lyricists to Oum Kalthoum. The purity and intimacy of this recording invite the listener to enter into a world alive with sensitivity and elegance."
Artist:
RAHAL, BEIHDJA
Title:
In the Mood for the Nouba
Label:
INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE (FRANCE)
Format:
2CD
Price:
$40.00
Catalog #:
IDMA 321079
"The performance of the M'djanba and Mazmum noubas presented here on this double CD requires warmth, both of soul and of feeling. The crystal-clear tones of Beihdja Rahal ring out in her radiant interpretation of these classical pieces from the Andalusian-Algerian repertoire. This genre is also accompanied by traditional instruments such as the tar (percussion), the darbuka or goblet drum, the lute, the violin, the kwitra (springed instrument) and the qanun (zither) and demands total respect of its rules, its harmony, rhythms and melody. The recording as a whole offers the listener an intense emotional experience."
Artist:
HAFFAR, HASSAN
Title:
The Aleppo Suites
Label:
INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE (FRANCE)
Format:
3CD
Price:
$57.00
Catalog #:
IDMA 321082
"Hassan Haffar's
Aleppo Suites
consist of various poems in free form that are set to music and sung. Each suite has its own flavor. Interpretation varies according to the different schools and singers, who evoke three separate aspects of existence in love poems, bacchic songs and poems about nature. These may be used alternately, but they all express a single emotion: yearning for the beloved. Haffar's musical and vocal skills blend introspection and sensuality and these three albums confirm him to be a master of the genre."
Artist:
HOMSY, IMANE
Title:
Lord Kanun
Label:
INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE (FRANCE)
Format:
CD
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
IDMA 321085
Performed by Imane Homsy,
kanun
and vocal. "The
kanun
is traditionally used to accompany singing. It repeats the musical phrase and is played with two fingers. Here, we see it in a new light: accompanist-interpreter-soloist on a par with any singer. The
kanun
as a 'complete' instrument, in fact, revealed in all its glory by Imane Homsy and the ten fingers technique developed by her, a technique that conjures up new ambiences and colors. The
kanun
has at last found the place it deserves at the heart of the classical Arab orchestra."
Artist:
SOUBRA, WASSIM
Title:
Sonates Orientales
Label:
INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE (FRANCE)
Format:
CD
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
IDMA 321086
"
Sonates Orientales
is an album of instrumental music performed by Lebanese pianist and composer Wassim Soubra. Is it classical music? Jazz? World music? No matter what, it deserves further investigation, for Soubra writes using the grammar of classical music (harmonies, counterpoint) combined with the sounds of his childhood, and the result is a western composition that tells an eastern, Lebanese story."
Artist:
NASRAOUI, ABIR
Title:
Heyma
Label:
INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE (FRANCE)
Format:
CD
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
IDMA 321089
"
Heyma
or 'Wanderings,' is an album born of the collaboration between a group of Tunisian friends who have spent their lives traveling between several cultures. Leïla El Mekki Skander Guetari and Abir Nasraoui take the listener on a journey through a colorful musical universe, created by more than a dozen musicians from East and West."
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