Sultan

Sultan

Track Listings

1. Yenlik, Pt.1

2. Yenlik, Pt.2

3. Yenlik, Pt.3

4. Yenlik, Pt.4

5. Yenlik, Pt.5

6. Yenlik, Pt.6

7. Yenlik, Pt.7

8. Yenlik, Pt.8

9. Gel Gör Beni Ask N'Eyledi

Tracks:

Raga: Bageshree
Thumri

Customer Reviews:

Sarangi Bliss.......2006-06-06

This album is great of course. It is Ustad Sultan Khan. He is one of the best sarangi masters there is. I want to let everyone know the structure of the tracks as I wanted to before buying. There is a very brief alap on Raga Bageshree and then goes into the gat. The track is about 30 minutes along. The thumri is basically the same way but it is shorter about 11 minutes long. The sarangi playing is definitely up front. The tabla playing is very minimal but always fitting. This is a great album. This is more accesible with the short alap and minimal tabla playing than his album of Raga Bhupali with Zakir Hussain though they are both great. Bageshree is one of my favorite ragas but this album was recorded in the 70's and the bhupali album was around 2000 i think. Therefore, the playing is much more mature. Also, Bageshree has a tanpura keeping the drone. Bhupali does not. So if you have a preference on that, that would help. All in all both are great albums in their own right but if i had to reccomend one i would probably say Bhupali. The long alap is beautiful and Zakir's tabla playing is unmatched.

Beautiful Indian classical music.......2002-09-20

A beautiful set of two long-ish ragas, recorded in 1974 by two members of Ravi Shankar's touring ensemble in an informal Marin County concert. Khan plays the sarangi, an elaborate stringed instrument that is played with a bow, like a violin. These two pieces are all about the mellow, languid "alap," (the slow, melodic introductory movement of longer Indian classical pieces... and should be a treat for anyone in search of something mellow to zone out on. Lovely stuff... definitely worth checking out.

Consumate Musician.......2002-06-16

I agree with the above reviews - I have about 80 Indian Classical CDs and Sultan Khan is a favorite - He's very lyrical while retaining good classical form - sort of reminds me of the asthetic Chopin would have in Western Classical Music. My other favorite is Sabri Khan who has a little more austere intensity - Ram Narayan is very austere and Dhrupad like.

Consumate Musician.......2000-01-31

sensitive, heart warming and thought provoking.......1999-09-22

I've listened to numerous North Indian Saranghi players (both on CD, and live in New York), but none of them moved me as deeply as Ustad Sultan Khan. His tone and sensitivity inspire emotion like noone else.

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Superb combination
deep music.

Raga Marwa
Ustad Sultan Khan , and Anuradha Pal
Manufacturer: India Archives
ProductGroup: Music
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Tracks:

Raga Marwa: Alap & Jor - Ustad Sultan Khan
Raga Marwa: Vilambit Gat In Tintal
Raga Marwa: Madhya Gat In Tintal
Raga Marwa: Drut Gat In Ektal
Raga Bhairavi: Dhun In Dadra Tal

Customer Reviews:

Superb combination.......2002-07-26

What an amazing combination- soulful sarangi by Sultan Khan with sensitive beautiful tabla by Anuradha Pal completes the magic.What is amazing is the way Anuradha's ringing tonal quality complements the sarangi with a melody of its own.
Superb music !

deep music........2000-06-15

wonderful music. as sultan khan is one of the greatest musicians ever lived. ethereal!

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Jugalbandi: Sarod and Sarangi Duet
Ustad Aashish Khan
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Tracks:

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Dissapointed
AS smooth as they can get

A Drop of the Ocean
Sultan Khan & Krishna Das
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Customer Reviews:

Dissapointed.......2005-07-12

I hate to give a bad review, especially for talanted musicians, but this album is unsatisfying. After reading listeners' reviews from this and other sites, I decided to purchase this CD. What a dissapointment. If you want to own music by Sultan Khan, look elsewhere.

Although Khan's playing is, at places, soulful, there are too few inspired moments. Those places where the music begins to soar are unfortunately disrupted too frequently by distracting chanting and resitation by Krishna Das. Although I think Das' first album (One Track Heart)is excellent, here his presence fails to add anything inspiring. Rather, he chants the same old, tired melodies that he has already sung on numerous other recordings. Kahn's singing, although not at a professional level, at least sounds more authentic and heartfelt.

This could have been a much more enjoyable CD if they would have left out the singing. Perhaps I am a little too harsh giving only one star, but this CD will be an (expensive) dust collector in my music rack. Bottom line, IMO, if you want traditional Indian music that stirs the soul, skip the distracted efforts here and buy music recorded for a traditional Indian audence.

AS smooth as they can get.......2004-08-14

Ustad Sultan Khan is back with another classic interpretation of sarangi music at its best. Joined with Krishna Das an individual i have not come to imbrace musically. But Ustad set him on fire and both burn up each and every track on this glorious spiritual gem. The songs are filled with ustads classic lamented slow soothing playing for about 8min or so with krishna acompaning with beautifle poetry in english and in tongue or singing in tongue (ustad is also a featured singer. Then Krishna will accompany him with an oud or guitar and classical tablas fill the room with glorious harmony. This is a more subdued and slow album not fast and kaotic, very tranquel like a soft water current, perfect for deep meditation. Slow in the way the gopal shankar album on realworld is. This is the best album from ustad ive heard yet, except for the tabla beat science records the live one especially. enjoy

National Anthems of the World: Swarovski Orchestra

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Large collection for the price, but not perfect
excellent selection & quality sound

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Uruquay
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Vietnam
Zimbabwe

Customer Reviews:

Large collection for the price, but not perfect.......2006-07-30

As with these sorts of all-inclusive collections, there are issues to be had with 'National Anthems of the World' as performed by the Swarovski Orchestra. Primary--to me--is that these performances and arrangements come off as being rather sterile and bland, though it's perhaps not surprising since I doubt very much that most of the nationalities of the nations represented here have citizens actually in the Swarovski Orchestra. There's little of the passion that a national band or orchestra would have in playing their own nation's anthem, much like listening to a generic studio band play play a collection of college fight songs (and there ARE CDs of those out for sale as well).

That said, this 2-disc CD set does offer a wide spectrum of national anthems, though it does a far better job of covering European nations more so than any other region. For instance, Central America is poorly represented in this collection as is Africa which, aside from Cameroon, the heart of that continent is conspicuously ill-depicted. But the biggest omission is China; neither the mainland or Taiwanese anthems are included in this set. Considering that The People's Republic of China is the most populous nation on earth, as well as a global political and economic force to be reckoned with, even in 1996 (this CD set dates from 2004, but at least one online database list the contents from the mid-1990s), this is a glaring oversight in my opinion.

The final gripe deals with the included documentation. Each of these anthems DO have titles to them, none of which the producers of this collection ever bother to mention and provide. One has to go to Wikipedia or some other resource to look up the actual name of the anthems included here. This is information that is relatively cheap to research and out of courtesy to the consumer should've been provided for this set, especially since this collection has been around in some form for over a decade already.

For the money, it's a fairly good buy for those who want a collection of national anthems. But the producers could've done a better job of compiling the contents of this collection, and what music there is would've certainly benefitted from a bit more impassioned play.

excellent selection & quality sound.......2005-08-27

Swarovski Orchestra did an excellent job in this compilation. I work in Foreign Service & I use this CD to play US anthem & the host country anthem during events. Unlike other compilations which shorten the pieces, this offers full-length pieces saving me from embarrassment.

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Sarangi
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Customer Reviews:

Josh Graves, Sultan of Slide.......2000-06-24

Sultan of Slide is easily the best thing "Josh" Graves has ever done. His playing has not diminished any since I first heard him 50 years ago; if anything, his playing is more soulful. This album is not strictly bluegrass; it has drums, steel guitar, electric lead guitar and piano on some of some of the cuts. He is ably backed up by some of the finest instrumentalists and singers in the business; Buddy Emmons on pedal steel and Vassar Clements and Glen Duncan on fiddle, and Jerry Douglas on Dobro, and The Whites, Marty Stuart, Porter Wagoner, Johnny Russell, and Delbert McClinton on vocals. The tune selection is outstanding, running the gamut from son Billy Troy's version of the Jimmie Rodgers classic "Carolina Sunshine Girl", Johnnie and Jack's "Down South in New Orleans" (with vocal by an exhuberant Delbert McClinton), Leon McAuliffe's "Panhandle Rag" with Vassar Clements and Buddy Emmons, to Johnny Russell's "Someday I'll Sober Up" - I love this mix of tunes, it shows his versatility and musicianship to great effect. This is a great album, both for those of us who are long-time "Josh" fans and those who may have just discovered him. Highly recommended.

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My favorite of the "Istanbul Oriental Ensemble" discs
Captures Arabian/Ottoman beauty, dreamily.
One of Burhan's best!
amazing
Totally enjoyable!

Sultan's Secret Door
Burhan Öçal
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My favorite of the "Istanbul Oriental Ensemble" discs.......2005-10-19

I own three recordings by this version of the band and the "Sultan's Secret Door" is by far the most mature of the three. The songs have a seamless flowing quality that's missing in so much Middle Eastern music. As a couple reviews note below, the group very successfully introduces elements of Jazz and other Western techniques without compromising the musical whole. I've heard many would be officianadoes of Turkish gypsy music bad mouth Ocal on account of the fact that he holds dual Swiss/Turkish citizenship - or over the fact that he's "ripping off" gypsy music. This arguement against innovation is ill informed and severly misdirected. It's like saying that the Beatles were not a very good band and that they didn't really do much for rock'n'roll. But politically correct scholarship is trendy the world over and probably won't die out anytime soon.

If anything, more eastern ensembles should listen to this record and learn from it!

Captures Arabian/Ottoman beauty, dreamily........2003-10-23

Arabian flavour signifies Turkish music and culture.But, European influence gives it a difference from other middle-eastern cultures and musics.It isn't as rigid in its rhythm as Bellydance music, and nor is it as contemplative as Sufi music.
Long stretches of improvisation and mood (always Turkish scales, not jazz), where instruments (percussion,clarinet,oud,violin etc...) enjoyably drift in and out of each other, inevitably find their way into distinctive rhythmic melodylines.You can hear each instrument's texture so clearly, thanks to great production and highest quality instruments -which are played amazingly well.This music is hypnotic because it just 'flows'.There's no sense of effort, despite it being virtuosic.It perfectly fits the Arabian fantasy-world imagery from films and stories, aswell as being authentic folk music.
For a Turkish cd that is back to back melodylines, "Gypsy Rum" and "Caravanserai" would be better choices.But for a cd that shares the catchy parts between long sequences of Turkish mood, this one is perfect.
I'm glad Burhan Ocal didn't keep this secret as well as the Sultan had intended to.

One of Burhan's best!.......2002-04-20

I became so enamored of the music of Burhan Ocal and other Turkish musicians that I felt compelled to take a trip to Istanbul this spring. Of all of the albums that led to this musical odyssey, this was the one most responsible. "The Sultan's Secret Door" is compulsively listenable and absorbing, each track an imaginary set piece taking place at the Sultan's court. The infectious rhythms and rich melodic tapestry capture the spirit of a time (the reign of Suleyman I) and place (Topkapi Sarayi) perfectly. You're on a magic carpet, and Burhan Ocal is the geni that makes it fly. An experience not to be missed.

amazing.......2001-05-11

I love Burhan Ocal..Again a very nice cd by him....No more words...Try to listen it......

Totally enjoyable!.......2000-06-15

This CD is the next best thing to seeing Burhan Ocal and his band perform live. The songs are great, and the excellent sound quality really brings them to life. Percussionist Burhan Ocal is a master finger drummer, and the other members of the band play excellently on mostly traditional instruments such as the oud and the quunun. The violin on track 2 add a very nice touch. There's good balance between the more festive numbers (tracks 1, 2) and the mellow ones (track 3). Highly recommended.

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East meets... what?..
Nobody's business but the Turks
East Meets Wow!
Punch, precision and panache
Rich and Colorful

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Christopher Willibald Gluck , Werner Ehrhardt , Concerto Koln , and Sarband
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East meets... what?.........2004-08-12

A wonderful combination of traditional Turkish music played by traditional musicians (to say nothing about Russian leader...) and the same oriental music - as great Western composers imagined it. We shall admit, those guys had really good imagination. And Deutche Grammophone will never spoil the party - the sound quality is terrific.

Nobody's business but the Turks.......2004-02-14

Light-hearted and profound, this represents the best of the "what if?" concept compilations, taking "Eastern"-influenced 18th century European music and putting the Turkish instruments and musicians right back into the mix. As often happens in such cases, the synthesis is greater than the sum of its parts, and the result is a "Big Band Baroque" sound that will have you up on your feet and doing dervishlike spins around the living room in no time.

Also, this album offers another view of the "musical alchemy" powers of Concerto Koln. If these fine folks can thrust Dall'abaco back into the spotlight after centuries of obscurity, there is no telling what other feats they may be able to pull off in the years ahead.

East Meets Wow!.......2003-07-30

This CD may well be the thinking man's and woman's crossover disc of the year, especially since the crossing-over is not from kitsch to classical and then back again, as in most of these joint-venture kinds of albums. Here, instead, we have a natural (well, in 18th-century terms, at least) pairing of forces-the classical orchestra and the Turkish battery of percussion. They really did get together, of course, in Mozart's and Haydn's day, as evidenced by The "Abduction from a Seraglio" and the "Military Symphony." And the fascinating historical backgrounds supplied in the notes to this recording (written by Werner Ehrhardt of Concerto Koln and Vladimir Ivanoff of Sarband) tell us that those batteries would often have been manned by Turkish musicians who had originally been assigned to ensembles sent as gifts by sultans to the courts of Europe. Though the ensembles were disbanded, the musicians stayed on, finding employment with European orchestras.

Thus half the disc features sets in which the Sarband percussion players join Concerto Koln for the music of Mozart, Gluck, Kraus, and Sussmayr. Lovers of so-called "Turkish" or "Janissary" music (of which I count myself one) may never hear these works with the same ears again. Not only do the Turkish instruments impart a special saltiness to the proceedings, but the freer, to-heck-with-the-bar-lines thinking of the Sarband players (read the notes for more about this) brings an extra military swagger to the proceedings that is unstoppable. The overture to the "Abduction" has never been this much of a thrill ride, and you'll probably wonder, too, why Gluck's "La Rencontre imprevue isn't a concert-hall sugarplum. Move over, "Russlan und Ludmilla"! In fact, Sarband comes close to breaking the bank in the development section of the first movement of Sussmayr's delightful "Turkish Symphony," where the feverish cross rhythms and syncopations make you think Charles Ives has unleashed one of his orchestral battles of the bands! But not to worry: Improvisation here meets sound classical principles, and if this performance is speculative, it is not wildly speculative, given the highbred nature of 18th-century "Turkish" orchestras. And the results are exciting!

As the notes to the recording also suggest, East-West musical influences in the 18th century were mostly a one-way street, so when the Concerto Koln players sit in with Sarband for sets of traditional Turkish music, we may be on more iffy ground interpretively, but to the untutored at least, the results are beguiling. One of the most enlightening features of the recording is the interpolation of traditional Turkish music with excerpts from Joseph Martin Kraus's Turkish opera "Soliman II." Here we get real Janissary music juxtaposed with Kraus's take on such music, real dervishes cheek-by-jowl with operatic dervishes. Fascinating. I certainly hope Concerto Koln and Sarband don't stop here.

Punch, precision and panache.......2003-07-09

Dream of the Orient is a wonderful album that explores 18th century Europe's concept of Turkish music and the real thing. It combines the talents of Concerto Koln - THE period instrument band (remember Rene Jacobs' Cosi fan tutte?) and the neat little Turkish ensemble Sarband. What is amazing is hearing the two together on certain tracks, which is rather daring since we are combining East and West, jazzy cadences with precision and punch, but it all comes off with a certain panache. My fav is the perfect rendering of Mozart's Overture to Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail. It is incredible. That take properly displays the power and touch of Mozart's awesome entrance. This is a marvelous CD.

Rich and Colorful.......2003-06-21

This excellent CD contains original Turkish and Classical Western Music composed at the time of "Turkish Craze". I love the "Turkish Symphony" by Sussmayr (Mozart's student). It is probably the best exhibition of Turkish drum (Davul) in a classical piece. Another favorite of mine is Todorini's "Izia". I expect more from Sarband and Concerto Koln of the same kind.

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