The musicians of the Istanbul Chamber Orchestra (conductor: Hakan Şensoy), together with the distinguished Italian pianist Marcello Mazzoni, perform Franz Liszt’s 1850 Liebesträume, a piece that was originally written for solo piano but is to be heard on this occasion in an arrangement by Hakan Şensoy; Liszt’s 1849 Totentanz (‘Dance of the Dead’) for piano and orchestra, a product of the composer’s well-known fascination with death – in the early 1830s, he would go down into prison dungeons to see those who had been condemned to die; and the neo-classical Concerto Grosso No 2 (1952), scored for string quartet and string orchestra, by the Swiss-born American composer Ernst Bloch (1880-1959).
Issue 66, December 2023
Turkey’s Centenary Issue
