[World] Concerto Koln & Sarband - Dream of the Orient
Concerto Köln & Sarband - Dream of the Orient
MP3 | 320 kbps | Including full booklet scans
Deutsche Grammophon 474 193-2, 2003
Performer: Ensemble Sarband, Concerto Köln, Werner Ehrhardt, Vladimir Ivanoff
Цитата:
This CD may well be the thinking man's and woman's crossover disc of the year, especially since the crossing-over is not from kitsch to classical and then back again, as in most of these joint-venture kinds of albums. Here, instead, we have a natural (well, in 18th-century terms, at least) pairing of forces-the classical orchestra and the Turkish battery of percussion. They really did get together, of course, in Mozart's and Haydn's day, as evidenced by The "Abduction from a Seraglio" and the "Military Symphony." And the fascinating historical backgrounds supplied in the notes to this recording (written by Werner Ehrhardt of Concerto Koln and Vladimir Ivanoff of Sarband) tell us that those batteries would often have been manned by Turkish musicians who had originally been assigned to ensembles sent as gifts by sultans to the courts of Europe. Though the ensembles were disbanded, the musicians stayed on, finding employment with European orchestras.
Thus half the disc features sets in which the Sarband percussion players join Concerto Koln for the music of Mozart, Gluck, Kraus, and Sussmayr. Lovers of so-called "Turkish" or "Janissary" music (of which I count myself one) may never hear these works with the same ears again. Not only do the Turkish instruments impart a special saltiness to the proceedings, but the freer, to-heck-with-the-bar-lines thinking of the Sarband players (read the notes for more about this) brings an extra military swagger to the proceedings that is unstoppable. The overture to the "Abduction" has never been this much of a thrill ride, and you'll probably wonder, too, why Gluck's "La Rencontre imprevue isn't a concert-hall sugarplum. Move over, "Russlan und Ludmilla"! In fact, Sarband comes close to breaking the bank in the development section of the first movement of Sussmayr's delightful "Turkish Symphony," where the feverish cross rhythms and syncopations make you think Charles Ives has unleashed one of his orchestral battles of the bands! But not to worry: Improvisation here meets sound classical principles, and if this performance is speculative, it is not wildly speculative, given the highbred nature of 18th-century "Turkish" orchestras. And the results are exciting!
As the notes to the recording also suggest, East-West musical influences in the 18th century were mostly a one-way street, so when the Concerto Koln players sit in with Sarband for sets of traditional Turkish music, we may be on more iffy ground interpretively, but to the untutored at least, the results are beguiling. One of the most enlightening features of the recording is the interpolation of traditional Turkish music with excerpts from Joseph Martin Kraus's Turkish opera "Soliman II." Here we get real Janissary music juxtaposed with Kraus's take on such music, real dervishes cheek-by-jowl with operatic dervishes. Fascinating. I certainly hope Concerto Koln and Sarband don't stop here.
Tracklist:
01. Sarband - Introduction to Mozart's Overture to Die Entführung aus dem Serail, improvisation
02. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opera, K. 384 Overture
03. Sarband - Introduction to Marquis de Ferriol's Concerto turco nominato "Izia semaisi", improvisation
04. Marquis de Ferriol - Concerto turco nominatio "Izia semaisi" (Turkish Concerto in the hijaz scale)
05. Turkish Traditional - Son yürük sema'i
06. Christoph Willibald Gluck - La rencontre imprévue (or, "The Pilgrim of Mecca"), opera in 3 acts, Wq. 32 Overture
07. Sarband - Introduction to Zurnazen Ibrahim Aga's Ussak pesrevi, improvisation
08. Zurnazen Ibrahim Aga - Ussak pesrevi (March of the soldiers)
09. Tatar Han Gazi Giray - Mahur pesrevi (Janissaries' March)
10. Joseph Martin Kraus - Soliman II, or the Three Sultanas, opera Ballet. Allegro
11. Sarband - Introduction to Hünkar pesrevi, improvisation
12. Turkish Anonymous - Hünkar pesrevi (Entrance of the Sultan) Joseph Martin Kraus - Soliman II, or the Three Sultanas, opera Ballet
13. Marcia del sultano (Entrance of the Sultan)
14. Marcia degli schiavi (Entrance of the Slaves)
15. Danza di Elmira (Elmire's Dance)
16. Marcia dei Giannizzari (Janissaries' March)
17. Turkish Traditional - Neva Ilahi (Pilgrim hymn on the journey to Mekka)
18. Joseph Martin Kraus - Soliman II, or the Three Sultanas, opera Ballet.. Marcia di Roxelana (Entrance of Roxelane)
19. Sarband - Introduction to Kraus' La coronazione from Soliman II, improvisation
20. Joseph Martin Kraus - Soliman II, or the Three Sultanas, opera Ballet. La coronazione (The Coronation)
21. Turkish Traditional - Hüseyni Ilahi (Song of the Dervishes)
22. Joseph Martin Kraus - Soliman II, or the Three Sultanas, opera Ballet. Marcia dei dervisci (Entrance of the dervishes)
23.-25. Franz Xaver Süssmayr - Sinfonia turchesca in C major
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