The superlative Borusan String Quartet are to perform Claude Debussy’s four-movement String Quartet in G minor, Opus 10, a ‘sensual and impressionistic’ work written in 1893, and the three-movement clarinet quintet Souvenirs de voyage, written in 1967 by Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975). Herrmann, an American conductor and composer, is best known for his film music – especially for his many collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock. His first film score was for Orson Welles’s 1941 Citizen Kane, and he later wrote the music for Fahrenheit 451 (1966). For Souvenirs de voyage, the quartet are to be joined by the Swiss clarinettist Reto Bieri, described by Magazin Ensemble as ‘an eccentric sonic wizard on the clarinet’. This concert is entitled Yansımalar (‘Reflections’).
For those who fail to locate the concert hall because of poor sinage, the programme is repeated on the Asian side at the beautiful Süreyya Opera House in Moda.
Events at the Süreyya Opera House, Moda
