Maria Farantouri sings Taner Akyol

ENJA 95612 (2010)

Maria Farantouri sings Taner Akyol
ENJA 95612 (2010)

Songs by the Turkish composer Taner Akyol arranged by conductor Symeon Ioannidis who has adapted some of the song’s lyrics in Greek. Among all songs interpreted in Greek by Maria Farantouri there is a special one sung in the traditional dialect of Zazaki: it speaks about the Dersim massacre of 1938.

Music: Taner Akyol, Mevlana, Memet Çapan
Lyrics: Pir Sultan Abdal, Karacaoğlan, Taner Akyol, Ibrahim Karaca, Adnan Yücel, Symeon Ioannidis

Maria Farantouri: voice
Taner Akyol: bağlama, voice
Antonis Anissegos: piano
Jarrod Cagwin: percussion
Berlin Concerto Chamber Orchestra
Symeon Ioannidis: conducting, arrangements

01. Let him come who knows
(T.Akyol – P.S.Abdal/S.Ioannidis)
02. Ah, Exile
(T.Akyol – Karacaoğlan/S.Ioannidis)
03. But they are in prison
(Mevlana – T.Akyol/S.Ioannidis)
04. Birds of passage
(T.Akyol – I. Karaca/S.Ioannidis)
05. Star mountain
(T.Akyol – P.S.Abdal)
06. Mute
(T.Akyol – Yücel/S.Ioannidis)
07. Water
(T.Akyol – P.S.Abdal/S.Ioannidis)
08. Beloved
(T.Akyol)
09. Daye Daye
(M.Çapan)
10. You wouldn’t understand
(T.Akyol – Yücel/S.Ioannidis)
11. Forlorn
(T.Akyol)