Fahrettin Çimenli

Turkish musician Fahrettin Çimenli plays the bowed tambouras and the tambouras. He was born in 1934. He was a member of the TRT (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation) Orchestra and the Istanbul State Classical Turkish Music Choir. He has performed in numerous concerts and recordings in Turkey and abroad.

Songs

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  • SongEastern AegeanChiosFable Song (Ballad)

A Trader Made His Way

  • Πραματευτής κατέβαινε ⬥ A trader made his way from Bulgar lands. He led his trains of twelve and fifteen mules and sang and spoke the while he trekked along: – A pity brigands don’t frequent these hills. No sooner said and three confronted him, and cut the ropes and started [...]
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  • SongEastern AegeanChiosFable Song (Ballad)

A Trader Made His Way

  • Πραματευτής κατέβαινε ⬥ A trader made his way from Bulgar lands. He led his trains of twelve and fifteen mules and sang and spoke the while he trekked along: – A pity brigands don’t frequent these hills. No sooner said and three confronted him, and cut the ropes and started [...]
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  • SongAsia MinorFable Song (Ballad)

Forty Stonemasons

(Arta's Bridge)

  • Σαράντα μαστορόπουλα – Της Άρτας το γεφύρι ⬥   A team of forty stonemasons and sixty prentice workers were putting up a bridge across the river close by Arta. The whole day long they built the bridge, at night it was dismantled. The masons much lamented this, the prentices were [...]
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  • SongCentral GreeceEuboea, KymiSea and Sailors SongCouplets, Table Song

Should You See a Vessel Pass

  • Αν δεις καράβι να περνά ⬥ An’ should you see a vessel pass, passing the cape of Ochtoniá oh take your little kerchief out and wave in signal to me. Sea, wide upon Sea, heartless foreign lands. The waves of the wide open sea come singly and in order yet [...]
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  • SongImprovisation, Instrumental

Taximi

  • Ταξίμι
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  • SongSporadesSkyrosLove SongCouplets

The Night Endures for Thirteen Hours

  • Η νύχτα ώρες δεκατρείς ⬥ The night endures for thirteen hours, I sleep for merely three. Throughout the hours that then remain I think of only you. It is night but day is breaking, dawn allows of no concealment. Night, what sorrow bows you down that you have put on [...]
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Records

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  • AlbumCD, Digital release1999Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Domna Samiou At Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall

This CD contains the live recording of the tribute concert for Domna Samiou’s seventieth birthday, at The Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall, in 1998. Some of her closest friends and collaborators were invited as guests: Lykourgos Angelopoulos, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, and the distinguished Turkish musicians Fahrettin Çimenli and Volkan […]
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2008Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Folk Fables in Song

In fables, fragments of ancient myths are preserved. On this CD, Domna Samiou & her collaborators sing tales of the fabulous and the fantastic combining the real world with the supernatural and narrating stories, often tragic, which might once have occurred – or could do so one day – however […]
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  • AlbumCD, Digital release2002Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Songs of Dame Sea

The wealth of Greek traditional music has been enriched by every aspect of maritime tradition – by its values, virtues and charm – as is amply demonstrated by this wonderful collection of songs. They embrace the ways people have sung, since Ulysses, about the temptations of the sea, its risks, […]
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Concerts

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  • Concert
  • 29/10/1998

The Known and the Unknown Domna

A great concert called ‘The known and unknown Domna’, part of the series ‘Bridges’; a tribute concert for her seventieth birthday. Some of her closer friends and collaborators were invited as guests: Lykourgos Angelopoulos, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Eleftheria Arvanitaki as well as the two distinguished Turkish musicians Fahrettin Çimenli and Volkan […]
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