Lalezar Ensemble

The Lalezar Ensemble is a musical ensemble which performs Ottoman classical music. It is based in Istanbul, and is "spearheading" the revival of Ottoman music.
Female vocalist Selma Sagbas stands in for the male castrati who were traditional from the 16th-19th centuries while the kanun, a Turkish board zither, is also featured.
They released a four volume series on the Traditional Crossroads label:
In collaboration with Lalezar, Armenian-American musician Harold Hagopian spent three years to mix, annotate, and package the... meer