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What kind of music does Constantinople play?
Constantinople is a Montreal-based early music and middle eastern music ensemble. The group was formed in 1988 by brothers Kiya Tabassian ( setar) and Ziya Tabassian ( tombak ). The sétar and tombak are complemented by viola da gamba, renaissance cornett, and daf.
How many songs or albums match Constantinople?
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What makes Constantinople unique?
Constantinople is a musical ensemble that chose the journey—geographical certainly, but also historical, cultural and inner—as its cornerstone. It draws inspiration from all sources and aims for distant horizons. A virtuoso of the setar and an acclaimed composer, Kiya has developed more than 50 creations all over the world.
What is the Constantinople ensemble?
The Constantinople ensemble aims to interpret a diverse repertoire spanning medieval, baroque, and contemporary aesthetics, from the Mediterranean Europe to the East. With over 50 creations to its credit, the ensemble has performed concerts in more than 55 countries.

I. Premiers Songes—Early Dreams. Analekta CD An 2 9989.

The Early Dreams project represents both a return to the source and a rebirth for Constantinople. It is the start of a new cycle. The group was born ten years ago around a meeting of the sonorous, musical and cultural worlds of two instruments—the setar and the European lute—the first, monodic and drawing melodic contours around the latter’s bass l

II. li Tans Nouveaus. Atma CD ACD 2 2290.

The present recording proposes a repertoire of songs whose poetry and music are the work of troubadours and trouvères active in 12th- and 13th-century France. This repertoire represents the earliest surviving medieval examples of song written in the vernacular. The troubadour (trobador) and the trouvère (troveor) were literally seekers, finders, in

III. Terra Nostra. Atma CD ACD 2 2567.

Continuing its explorations of Mediterranean music, after recording Que le Yable les emporte, a CD of the music of Nouvelle France, Constantinople now returns to the Americas and, once again, infiltrates a zone of culture shock. This time it’s the Gulf of Mexico, the ‘new Mediterranean’, a Caribbean space in which Indian, European, Mediterranean