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From: Middle East > Iran, Turkey
And: Europe > Western Europe

Genres: Arab Classical, Turkish Classical

Ensemble Sarband

The group's name SARBAND stems from Persian and Arabic, and denotes to an improvised coupling of two parts within a musical suite. Vladimir Ivanoff founded Ensemble SARBAND in 1986 and has been pursuing an archaeology of complex connections ever since: Above all, SARBAND endeavours to show all possible connections between European music, Islamic and Jewish music-culture. Both sensitively and intensely SARBAND celebrates the symbiotic relationship between the Orient and the Occident.

The continuous musical collaboration within the Ensemble ensures that a dialogue on equal terms is maintained. It is the exchange of practical musical experience between musicians from different cultures that make the performances of SARBAND gripping, lively and utmost authentic.

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SARBAND'S unique repertoire has won them wide acclaim internationally. Over the past few years SARBAND has recorded numerous CDs and performed at many international festivals; mentioning only a few:

1989: Horizonte - Berliner Festspiele / 1990: Settimana Internazionale, Erice / 1991: Istanbul-Festival / Settimana Internazionale, Siena / 1992: Romanischer Sommer, Köln / 1993: Internationale Funkausstellung, Berlin / SFINKS-World Music, Antwerpen / GREC, Barcelona / 1994: Abbaye de Sylvanès / Re:Orient, Stockholm / 1995: Stimmen, Lörrach / 1996: Festival van Vlaanderen, Brügge / MIMI Festival, Arles / Copenhagen, Cultural Capital of Europe / 1997: Thessaloniki, Kulturhauptstadt Europas / Jerusalem 2000 / Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival / Ambraser Schloßkonzerte, Innsbruck / Europa Cantat XIII, Linz / Southbank London / 1998: 900 Jahre Hildegard von Bingen / Festival de Musiques Sacrées Fribourg / Baalbek-Festival, Libanon / Holland Festival Oude Muziek, Utrecht / Ludwigsburger Schloßfestspiele / Stockholm, Kulturhauptstadt Europas/ 1999: Boston Early Music Festival / Festival de Madrid / 2000: Library of Congress, Washington / Spitalfields Festival, London / Styriarte, Graz / Phiharmonie Köln / Paris, Théatre des Bouffes du Nord / München, Herkulessaal der Residenz / 2001: Lufthansa Baroque Festival, London / 2002: Dresdner Festspiele / Brügge, Kulturhauptstadt Europas / Luzerner Festspiele / 2003: Madrid, Sevilla, Neapel / Festival de Menton / 2004: Feldkirch Festival / Vezelay / 2005: Istanbul Festival / Komische Oper Berlin / Rheingau-Festival / Accademia di Sa. Cecilia, Rom / UCLA, Los Angeles / Lincoln Center, New York.

SARBAND'S musicians do not see their work as something sporadic but as a part of being and living. Just as religious, economic, cultural and political differences between the Orient and the Occident play a predominant role in today's society, SARBAND'S music endeavours to show that music has always served as communication in which people found reciprocal respect for each other and could easily contribute in the process of relating in the same way today. Uniting people around the world, offering mutual recognition towards each other, in other words: music as an example for peace.
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	Title	Length	Sample
	Gnossienne N�I	6:20
	Gymnop�die N�I	3:38
	Gymnop�die N�III	4:28
	Chanson	3:05
	Pr�lude d'Eginhard - Trois sonneries de la Rose-Croix	7:20
	Aire de l'ordre	4:01
	Air du Grand Prieur	2:20
	Air du Grand Ma�tre	2:29
	El�gie	2:58
	Gnossienne N�5	4:11
	Les Anges	2:30
	Gymnop�die N�3	2:53
	Danse Gothique N�3: En faveur d'un malheureux	0:36
	Chanson m�di�vale	3:07
	Uspud ballet chr�tien	4:11
	Hymne pour le "Salut Drapeau" - Prose extraite du "Prince de Byzance" de Jos�phine P�ladan	4:32
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Samples sound great but don't buy this album from Calabash!	1	Sorry Ensemble Sarband! The samples sounded fantastic so I bought all the tracks, only to find that all those with accents in the title will not download (11 of them, the best ones I thought!), neither on Mac nor PC, tried on several different browsers. No response from Calabash 'Contact' so this is the only way to get attention. Maybe the artists know how to get in touch with Calabash. Or if anyone out there reading this knows how technically to get around this problem, perhaps they can post a solution here. Then when I can listen to the album, I can do a proper review!