This album includes court music from Orient and Occident.
Music of the Emperors / Musik der Könige court music from Orient and Occident – the court of the Great Khan Timur Leng/Tamerlan at Samarkand and the court of Frederick II, emperor of the Staufer dynasty in Palermo. Both emperors gathered musicians from every part of their empires who then produced world music in the middle ages.