Sayyed Darwish - Beirut Oriental Ensemble - 1920

The Oriental Ensemble from Beirut combine virtuoso musicianship with academic study, resulting in truly authentic performances,that make them distinguished for their performances of music from the Arabic and Syriac traditions.

Ensemble members are:
Ghada Shbeir vocal
Rima Khcheich vocal
Imane Homsy qanun
Charbel Rouhana oud
Samir Siblini ney
Ali El Khatib rek
Toufic Kerbage director


SAYYID DARWÎSH (1892-1923)
Sayyid Darwîsh's life is one of those lightning trajectories in the history of music, the memory and the influence of which go much beyond the actual frame of a musical production. He was to die at the dawn of a striking career, almost ignored by the musical milieu in his lifetime and mythified after his death. The famous name of this Alexandrian singer and composer has too long occulted his predecessor-s school and, more ironically. his own learned production. In the modern Arab historiography of music. Sayyid Darwîsh has become an icon symbolizing Progress. Modernity, and the shift from "Oriental music", an elitist music made for Pachas and still bathing in the original ottoman matrix, to "Egyptian music", the first figuralist expression of a people-s soul and their nationalist demands. This analysis hardly conceals a biased reading of History, and only a return to the recordings of this turn of-the century master can allow a reconsideration of the true dimension of Sayyid Darwîsh's works, the works of an original and experimental artist.

Tracks
01. Mounyati Azza Stibari
02. Ya Shadi Al Alhan
03. Ya 'ouzayba Al Marshaf
04. Schtou Wajdan
05. Bisifaten Ga'alatni
06. Namma Dam'i Min 'ouyouni
07. Salla Fiana Al Lahza Hindiyya
08. Koullama Roumtou Irtishafan
09. Ya Bahguet Al Rouh
10. Tef Ya Dourri
11. Al 'azara Al Maissat
12. Ya Tara Ba'd Al Bi'ad
13. Hayyara Al Afkar
14. Hibbi Da'ani Lilwisal
15. Dayya't Mustaqbal Hayati

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