Birol Topaloğlu | ar

Birol Topaloglu was born to a Laz family, in the small village Apso, which is on the North Eastern shore of the Black Sea coast of Turkey, near the Georgian border. He grew up speaking the Lazuri language at home. He started to sing in both Turkish and Lazuri, as well as his experiments in instrumentation drew serious attention. After having worked as an electronic engineer, at home in Turkey and abroad, he chose his music as his primary career. Birol Topaloglu started collecting the lullabies, and the ballads sung by his mother. In 1997 he recorded the music of...

La Orquestina del Fabirol es un grupo de folclore surgido en 1986 en Zaragoza. Combina canciones en castellano y aragonés. Tienen 7 discos, y han sido galardonados con el premio al "mejor grupo de música folk de España" en el Certamen Nacional de Jóvenes Intérpretes del año 1991. En noviembre de 2006, para conmemorar su 20 aniversario en la música, editan el libro De fabiroles y otras gaitas (ed. Rolde de Estudios Aragoneses, autor Javier Ferrández "Piri"), conteniendo el CD recopilatorio 20 años de fabirol y que es, prácticamente, una biografía del grupo hasta la fecha y de su compromiso...

Sir John Barbirolli, CH (2 December 1899 – 29 July 1970) was a British conductor and cellist. John Barbirolli was particularly associated with the Hallé Orchestra, Manchester, which he conducted for nearly three decades. He was also music director of the New York Philharmonic and the Houston Symphony, and conducted many other orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, and the Vienna Philharmonic. He was particularly associated with the music of English composers such as Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughan Williams. He also developed a strong reputation as a conductor of the music of...