Wednesday, April 1
Chamber music
Saygun string quartet, Shostakovich piano quintet
In this event, subtitled O Da Tekfen (‘That, Too, Is Tekfen’), four members of the Tekfen Philharmonic Orchestra – Murat Erginol and Ana Albero (violins), Pınar Dinçer (viola) and Burak Ayrancı (cello) – will first perform Ahmed Adnan Saygun’s four-movement String Quartet No 1, Opus 27, written in 1947. In the second half, they will be joined by pianist Kandemir Basmacıoğlu in Shostakovich’s five-movement Piano Quintet in G minor, Opus 57. This work, written in 1940, was an immediate success on its first performance, and has remained popular ever since.
20:00
Tickets from Mobilet Prices: 500.50TL, 572TL (students 314.60TL)
Tuesday, April 28
Opera
Britten’s ‘The Turn of the Screw‘
The British composer Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera The Turn of the Screw, written to a libretto by Myfanwy Piper and premiered in 1954, is based on Henry James’s 1898 Gothic horror novella of the same name. It concerns a young, inexperienced governess at a country house who comes to believe that the place is haunted. The performers are members of the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet company, conducted by Can Okan. The director, meanwhile, is Aytaç Manizade.
20:00
Tickets from Biletinial
Wednesday, April 08
Piano recital
Özgür Aydın (piano)
This recital, subtitled Gecenin Kıyısında Bir Ruh (‘A Soul on the Shores of Night’), will be given by Özgür Aydın, a highly talented Turkish pianist resident in Berlin. It will consist of eight of Schubert’s Impromptus – the four in Op. 90 (D 899) and the four in Op. posth. 142 (D 935) – all of which were written in 1827. These melodious and appealing works have become a cornerstone of the piano repertoire.
20:00
Tickets from Mobilet Prices: 500.50TL, 572TL (students 314.60TL)
Thursday, April 16
Chamber music
Aromsa Chamber Orchestra, Ji Hyun Oh, Barış Kerem Bahar
In this event, subtitled Dünya Sanat Günü Konseri (‘A Concert for World Arts Day’), the Aromsa Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Hakan Şensoy, will first play Mozart’s ever-popular Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K 525, a four-movement serenade completed in Vienna in 1787. They will then accompany viola-player Barış Kerem Bahar in Bach’s three-movement Concerto for Viola and String Orchestra in E flat major, a work assembled from movements of three of his cantatas. In the second half, the orchestra will accompany the Korean cellist Ji Hyun Oh in Haydn’s three-movement Cello Concerto No 1 in C major, Hoboken VIIb/1, written in the early 1760s. The final work on the programme, meanwhile, will be the 1894 Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky by Anton Arensky (1861-1906). Based on Tchaikovsky’s Legend: Christ in His Garden, it was originally the slow movement of a string quartet by Arensky, but was rewritten as a tribute to Tchaikovsky after his death.
20:00
Tickets from Mobilet Prices: 500.50TL, 572TL (students 314.60TL)
Monday, April 20
Piano concerto, orchestral music
ADK Istanbul Youth Orchestra, Gülsin Onay
The ADK İstanbul Gençlik Orkestrası (‘ADK Istanbul Youth Orchestra’), conducted by Ramis Sulu, was founded by the Zehra Yıldız Foundation for Culture and the Arts, and is sponsored by Ayşegül and Doğan Karadeniz. They will first accompany the celebrated virtuoso pianist Gülsin Onay in Schumann’s 1845 Piano Concerto in A minor, Opus 54, a lyrical work that is one of the most widely-performed piano concertos of the Romantic era. In the second half, they will play Beethoven’s four-movement Symphony No 7 in A major, Opus 92. This mostly energetic and upbeat work has a haunting Allegretto second movement in the minor key – a masterpiece of a kind that is unique in the composer’s output.
20:00
Tickets from Biletix Prices: 550TL, 715TL
Sunday, April 26
Chamber music
Elvin Hoxha Ganiyev (violin), İlyun Bürkev & Lalin Ayşen Ennakavi (piano)
This event, one of the ‘Coffee Concerts’ at this venue, has the subtitle Café Français. In the first half, the young pianist Lalin Ayşen Ennakavi will play Mozart’s Fantasia No 3 in D minor, K 397, and Schubert’s Impromptu in E flat major, Opus 90 (D 899) No 2. In the second half, pianist İlyun Bürkev will accompany violinist Elvin Hoxha Ganiyev in the 1886 Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano, a fiery and passionate work by the Belgian composer César Franck (1822-90), and Tzigane, a rhapsodic piece with a virtuosic violin part that was written in 1924 by the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).
11:00
Tickets from Mobilet Prices: 500.50TL, 572TL (students 314.60TL)
Borusan String Quartet & Reto Bieri (clarinet) at ENKA Sanat
