Playlist

Rumi

TIME

TITLE OF SELECTION
COMPOSER
PERFORMERS
ALBUM TITLE / INFO

00:15

Sahar - First light in the Dawn
Sangit Sirus, Mohammad Eghbal & Crista Eghbal
Ahura
AHURA - FIRE & LIGHT
- Nightingale Records 327

02:14

Haydar, Haydar
Sufi ritual song
Bayram Bilge Toker, baglama
BARAM - TURKISH FOLK SONGS & SUFI MELODIES
- Music of the World 122

03:48

Bird in God's Garden
Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson et al
WATCHING THE DARK - THE HISTORY OF RICHARD THOMPSON
- Hannibal 5303

07:11

"Don't Go Back to Sleep" from The Skylark Sings
David Kechley
Tomasa Eckert, soprano
New England Conservatory Symphony,
Chorus and Chamber Singers
conducted by Richard Hoenich
Liscio Recordings

08:50

Zikr
Improvisation by Kudsi Erguner
Kudsi Erguner and Süleyman Erguner
SUFI MUSIC OF TURKEY
- CMP 3005

13:13

Voyager
Salim Bey on the Makem Muhayyer
Kudsi Erguner and Süleyman Erguner
SUFI MUSIC OF TURKEY
- CMP 3005

14:42

Labbayk Medley
Traditional Mevlevi songs
The Mevlevi Ensaemble of Turkey directed by Dogan Ergin
THE MEVLEVI ENSEMBLE OF TURKEY
- Water Lily Acoustics 50

24:04*

"The Samarkand Run" from Seven Modern Dervish Dances
Al Gromer Kahn
Al Gromer Kahn et al
SPACE HOTEL - AL GROMER KHAN
- New Earth Records 9601

25:05

"A Communal Affirmation", Part III of Unseen Rain
Robert Kyr
Ensemble Project Ars Nova
UNSEEN RAIN - MUSIC BY ROBERT KYR
- NEW ALBION RECORDS 075

29:50

Sufi music of Damascus, Syria
A Sufi sama'
Hamza Shakour and the Al Kindi Ensemble - Syria
B'ISMILLAH - HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE
FES FESTIVAL OF WORLD SACRED MUSIC
- Sounds True (2CDs) 339

32:18

Vox = Dominum
Phillip Kent Bimstein
Phillip Bimstein
PHILLIP KENT BIMSTEIN - GARLAND HIRSCHI'S COWS
- Starkland 205

36:17
37:32

Don't Go Back to Sleep and
Don't Go Back to Sleep (reprise)
Graeme Revell and Roger Mason
Graeme Revell and Roger Mason et al
VISION II - SPIRIT OF RUMI
- Angel 56373

42:30

The Ocean
Graeme Revell and Roger Mason
Graeme Revell and Roger Mason et al
VISION II - SPIRIT OF RUMI
- Angel 56373

47:17

"The Samarkand Run" from Seven Modern Dervish Dances
Al Gromer Kahn
Al Gromer Kahn et al
SPACE HOTEL - AL GROMER KHAN
- New Earth Records 9601

50:13

Voyager
Salim Bey on the Makem Muhayyer
Kudsi Erguner and Süleyman Erguner
SUFI MUSIC OF TURKEY
- CMP 3005

53:50

Bird in God's Garden
Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson et al
WATCHING THE DARK - THE HISTORY OF RICHARD THOMPSON
- Hannibal 5303

56:07

"The Samarkand Run" from Seven Modern Dervish Dances
Al Gromer Kahn
Al Gromer Kahn et al
SPACE HOTEL - AL GROMER KHAN
- New Earth Records 9601


Excerpts from pages 16-17 of Element Classics: Rumi's Divan of Shems of Tabriz, translated by James Cowan, ©1992, used by permission of Element Books, Inc. Rockport, Massachusetts.

* - An asterisk indicates that only a portion of the piece is heard.

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