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Buy/gift a digital subscription Login to the Digital EditionJohn Shakespeare Dyson finds out what drives Cem Esen, the pianist whose compositions mix the passionate and the playful
The young pianist and composer Cem Esen first crossed my radar when I heard a piece by him entitled Sarcasm (weird choice for a piece of music!) played by Cem Mansur’s Turkish National Youth Philharmonic Orchestra at their Istanbul concert last August. The piece impressed me by reason of its tongue-in-cheek orchestral effects, which included lots of sneering glissandi from trombones and muted trumpets, and by the fact that its style was so modern that when someone’s ringtone went off during a xylophone and percussion duet, it didn’t seem at all inappropriate. I rarely give ringtones during concerts a positive review, but then there are many exceptional features to the work of this talented young musician…
Martyn and Alison Rix chronicle Turkey’s extraordinary botanical legacy
This grand mansion, an Ottoman outpost on the remote southern peninsula of Datça, was rotting away when it was rescued by an enterprising new owner. It has now regained every inch of its early-19th-century charm. By Rupert Scott. Photographs by Monica Fritz
Frederick Leighton’s abiding love of the East permeates his entire mansion-cum-studio in Holland Park
A new exhibition turns the limelight on Halil Pasha, pioneer of Turkish impressionism. By Ayla Jean Yackley
A show that turns the spotlight on two women painters eclipsed by their artist husbands
A new exhibition at the Ara Güler Museum follows Turkey’s adored photojournalist to the French Riviera
The beauty of bindings
Berrin Torolsan on the wonder bulb
Doyenne of curators, Nazan Ölçer, by Andrew Finkel
Barnaby Rogerson and the photographer Don McCullin set out from Turkey’s capital for Rough Cilicia
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