"Turkish Invasion (What? No Dervishes?)
By JAMES R. OESTREICH
Published: August 14, 2006
One of the most fruitful avenues for early-music adventurers, particularly over the last decade, has been an exploration of the commonalities between West and Middle East in medieval times. For clear historical reasons, the field is especially rich in Spain, where Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI have just produced an AliaVox CD, “Orient-Occident: 1200-1700,” with Turkish musicians casting familiar dances (istampittas) and other works in an exotic new light."
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