01	Ikhtitaf Fi Assaraya						06:39
	02	Egyptian Symphony No.25						06:41
	03	Lamma Bada Yatathenna/Symphony No.40						04:48
	04	Mahdiyat						02:09
	05	Concerto for Oud & Piano No.23						07:21
	06	Hamilu Lhawa Tahibou/Papageno's Aria No.20						03:25
	07	Yaman Hawa/Thamos, King of Egypt						04:49
	08	Mawwall						05:03
	09	Double Quartet In E Flat, K.374						07:24
	10	Ouazat Al Kahira [L'oca del Cairo]						03:01
	11	Double Quartet In F.K.496						05:31
	12	Dhikr/Requiem/Golgotha						10:58

The album features Mozart compositions interpolated by Egyptian instruments and singers as well as tracks of Mozart's music recorded in the traditional Western manner but with overlaid tracks of Egyptian percussion and instrumental music that matches the tempo, rhythms and key context of the Mozart original.


Mozart in Egypt, devised by Hughes de Courson, was at its release in 1997, considered in the musical spheres world-wide as a true musical phenomenon and acted as meteorite. Indeed the musical encounter which brought together Mozart and Egypt together was unexpected and explosive! The much awaited Mozart in Egypt 2 features more than 200 musicians & singers, bringing together peoples from Europe and the Middle-East.

There are problems, of course, in trying to marry Mozart and Egypt. Western music takes pride in the vertical arts of harmony and counterpoint. Arabic music is linear, one event following another. The result then is what the producers describe as a "crazy diagonal." And yet it works. Mozart sounds just fine on the oud [ancestor of the lute], and its way of decorating a melodic line is not at all dissimilar to the Western approach. Best of all is hearing the piano and oud together, when one player takes the melodic line, the other harmony.


1. Ikhtitaf fi Assaraya (Die Entfurung aus dem Serail)
Performer: Jim Cuomo (Clarinet), Ragab Sadek (Daf), Nabil Diab (Darabukka),
Ibrahim Shahin (), Mohammed Mostafa (Rebab), Mustafa Abd Al'-Aziz (),
Nasredine Dalil (Flute), Hassan el Meghannawaty (Voice)
Conductor: Milen Natchev
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra
Notes: On this selection Mustafa Abd Al'Aziz plays arghul; and Ibrahim Shahin plays kawal.
Cairo, Egypt (1997); Bulgarian Radio Studios, Sofia, Bulgaria (1997)

2. Double Quartet in F
Performer: Ibrahim Shahin (), Mohammed Mostafa (Rebab), Dimiter Stankov (Viola),
Ivan Peev (Violin), Elka Zacharieva (Cello), Mustafa Abd Al'-Aziz (),
Nabil Diab (Darabukka), Ragab Sadek (Daf), Jim Cuomo (Clarinet)
Notes: On this selection Mustafa Abd Al'Aziz plays arghul, and Ibrahim Shahin plays kawal.
Cairo, Egypt (1997); Bulgarian Radio Studios, Sofia, Bulgaria (1997)

3. Lamma bada yatathenna (Symphony no 40)
Performer: Mohammed Fouda (Ney), Ashraf Essam (Rik), Mostafa Abdel Naby (Violin),
Abdou Dagher (Violin), Prof. Maged Serour (Qanoun), Mamdouh El Gebaly (Oud),
Safwat Sourour (Darabukka), Rabah Dalil (Darabukka)
Conductor: Milen Natchev
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra
Language: Arabic
Notes: Cairo, Egypt (1997); Bulgarian Radio Studios, Sofia, Bulgaria (1997)
This work was written in collaboration with Nasredine Dalil.

4. Mahdiyat
Performer: Samira Donya (Voice), Alain Aubin (Voice)
Notes: Cairo, Egypt (1997); Bulgarian Radio Studios, Sofia, Bulgaria (1997)
This selection is sung in Egyptian and German.

5. Concerto for Oud & Piano no 23
Performer: Mario Angelov (Piano), Henri Agnel (Oud)
Conductor: Milen Natchev
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra
Notes: On this selection Mustafa Abd Al'Aziz plays arghul; and Ibrahim Shahin plays kawal.
Cairo, Egypt (1997); Bulgarian Radio Studios, Sofia, Bulgaria (1997)

6. Hamilu lhawa tahibou
Performer: Prof. Maged Serour (Qanoun), Mamdouh El Gebaly (Oud), Abdou Dagher (Violin),
Mostafa Abdel Naby (Violin), Mohammed Fouda (Ney), Safwat Sourour (Darabukka),
Nasredine Dalil (Voice), Ashraf Essam (Rik), Alain Aubin (Voice)
Conductor: Milen Natchev
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra
Notes: Cairo, Egypt (1997); Bulgarian Radio Studios, Sofia, Bulgaria (1997)
This selection is sung in Arabic and German.

7. Yaman hawa
Performer: Mamdouh El Gebaly (Oud), Abdou Dagher (Violin), Mostafa Abdel Naby (Violin),
Mohammed Fouda (Ney), Safwat Sourour (Darabukka), Rabah Dalil (Darabukka),
Ashraf Essam (Rik), Prof. Maged Serour (Qanoun)
Conductor: Milen Natchev
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra
Language: Arabic
Notes: Cairo, Egypt (1997); Bulgarian Radio Studios, Sofia, Bulgaria (1997)

8. Mawwall by Traditional
Performer: Ragab Sadek (Daf), Nabil Diab (Darabukka), Mohammed Mostafa (Rebab),
Mustafa Abd Al'-Aziz (), Reda Shiha (Voice), Ibrahim Shahin ()
Written: Egypt
Language: Egyptian
Notes: On this selection Mustafa Abd Al'Aziz plays arghul, and Ibrahim Shahin plays kawal.
Arrangers: Hughes De Courson; Nasredine Dalil.
Cairo, Egypt (1997); Bulgarian Radio Studios, Sofia, Bulgaria (1997)

9. Double Quartet in E Flat, K. 374
Performer: Mustafa Abd Al'-Aziz (), Mohammed Mostafa (Rebab), Nabil Diab (Darabukka),
Ibrahim Shahin (), Ragab Sadek (Daf), Jim Cuomo (Clarinet),
Ivan Peev (Violin), Elka Zacharieva (Cello), Dimiter Stankov (Viola)
Notes: On this selection Mustafa Abd Al'Aziz plays arghul, and Ibrahim Shahin plays kawal.
Cairo, Egypt (1997); Bulgarian Radio Studios, Sofia, Bulgaria (1997)

10. Ouzat al Kahira "L'Oca del Cairo"
Performer: Alain Aubin (Voice)
Conductor: Milen Natchev
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra
Language: Italian
Notes: Cairo, Egypt (1997); Bulgarian Radio Studios, Sofia, Bulgaria (1997)

11. Egyptian Symphony no 25 in G minor
Performer: Rabah Dalil (Darabukka), Mohammed Mostafa (Rebab), Mustafa Abd Al'-Aziz (),
Ragab Sadek (Daf), Rabah Dalil (Rik), Nabil Diab (Darabukka),
Ibrahim Shahin ()
Conductor: Milen Natchev
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra
Notes: On this selection Mustafa Abd Al'Aziz plays arghul, and Ibrahim Shahin plays kawal.
Cairo, Egypt (1997); Bulgarian Radio Studios, Sofia, Bulgaria (1997)

12. Dhikr/Requiem/Golgotha
Performer: Sheikh Mohamed Al Helbawy (Voice)
Conductor: Milen Natchev
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra
Notes: On this selection Mustafa Abd Al'Aziz plays arghul, and Ibrahim Shahin plays kawal.
Cairo, Egypt (1997); Bulgarian Radio Studios, Sofia, Bulgaria (1997)
This selection is sung in Arabic, Bulgarian, Coptic, Greek and Latin.


Credits:
Choir - Radio Sofia Sinfonic Orchestra
Orchestra - Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra , Radio Sofia Sinfonic Orchestra