Mesut Özgen — Anatolian Fantasy
Release date : Jan. 25, 2013
Label : Turquoise Guitar Editions
“Özgen’s playing is stunningly versatile and expressive throughout.”
Acoustic Guitar
“Mesut Özgen is a highly accomplished and exciting player; he gets the most out of the music he performs… The phrasing is immaculate and his technical capabilities are considerable.”
Classical Guitar
GuitArt
“Colorful 20th-century musical extravaganza…”Register-Pajaronian
“This is the finest music DVD ever to have come my way at the time of writing…both the sound and the vision are of pristine quality…remarkable achievement…”Classical Guitar Magazine
Mesut Özgen — Troubadour
Release date : Aug. 04, 2004
Label : Golden Horn Productions, Inc. / Golden Horn Records
“Özgen’s playing is stunningly versatile and expressive throughout.”
Acoustic Guitar
“…a shining example of this guitarist’s great talent.”
Guitar Review
“Mesut Özgen is a highly accomplished and exciting player; he gets the most out of the music he performs… The phrasing is immaculate and his technical capabilities are considerable.”
Classical Guitar
“This CD is an impressive debut for a guitarist who clearly has much to say.”
Soundboard
The world of Cantemir arises in the crossroads of Western and Eastern thought, in the collision of Europe with the Ottoman Empire, and at the junction of Byzantine culture with Islamic theology. Our recorded recital celebrates the wondrous life of Prince Dimitrie Cantemir (1673-1723), a royal Moldavian linguist-encyclopaedist-composer who through curious fate spent 22 years as a diplomatic guest of the Ottoman court. The program presents some of the finest works of Prince Cantemir preceded by taksim preludes, as well as traditional Moldavian tunes and European alla Turca reflections of Ottoman music played in Baroque style.