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Release Date: 1999Label: Kalan
The works performed on this recording belong to the instrumental repertoire of Ottoman music of the 16th and 17th centuries and notes were taken down by Dimitrie Cantemir, prince of Moldavia, by the end of the 17th century.The Bezmârâ ensemble, specialized in the interpretation of early Ottoman music, owning instruments some of which have totally disappeared, was founded in 1996 by Fikret Karakaya on the occasion of the musicological project, whose purpose was to recreate, on ancient instruments the compositions which appear in various old collections, and which contemporary musicians had abandoned.