In 1599, the young Thomas Dallam hurriedly set out on a journey into the unknown, delivering a church organ to the sultan Mehmet III as a gift from Queen Elizabeth I. Like Rimbaud in Ethiopia, many English travellers were destined to meet the Other in the Levant. On the trail of this distant journey, we chose the Lachrimæ collection by that master composer of Elizabethan melancholy, John Dowland, as our “sweet day of return”. On the opposite end is the secular Ottoman music – le dérèglement de tous les sens (“the derangement of all the senses”, in the words of Rimbaud). Leaving from London and headed for Istanbul, East and West are brought together through the accounts of their journeys…
Markellos Chryssicos
Conceived by
Andreas Linos
Markellos Chryssicos
Texts by
Thomas Dallam
Thomas Coryat
George Sandys
Henry Blount
Narrator
Spyros Sakkas
LATINITAS NOSTRA
Andreas Linos
Electra Miliadou
Nikoleta Chatzopoulou
Iason Ioannou
Dimitris Tigkas
violas da gamba
Thodoris Kitsos lute
Markellos Chryssicos
harpsichord, organ
Nikos Spanos countertenor
Apostolos Tsardakas qanun
Evgenios Voulgaris yaylı tanbur, vocals
Giannis Messalas yaylı tanbur
Sergios Voulgaris percussion
Thymios Atzakas oud
Nikos Paroulakis ney
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