Kamran Ince - The Fall Of Constantinople (1997)
Contemporary Classical | Argo/Decca | 1997 | 73:48 | EAC (FLAC, cue, no log) | Booklet | 323 MB
Present Music, Kevin Stalheim, conductor, Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Alan Miller, conductor, Alan Feinberg, piano
Contemporary Classical | Argo/Decca | 1997 | 73:48 | EAC (FLAC, cue, no log) | Booklet | 323 MB
Present Music, Kevin Stalheim, conductor, Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Alan Miller, conductor, Alan Feinberg, piano
"…Ince (b. 1960) mixes such diverse elements as medieval compositional techniques, Middle Eastern folk music, Bach chorales, wild percussion, tone clusters, and the styles of late Romanticism as well as modern Russia. He also drops nontraditional instruments, such as electric guitar, electric bass, and synthesizer, into the normal symphony orchestra. Yet this very pictoral and striking music could not be called avant-garde; it communicates instantly and clearly in a language quite its own. Ince not only attempts to depict the sound of pounding waves in one section of his lovely piano concerto 'Remembering Lycia', but also wittily portrays 'speeches' by the emperor of Constantinople and the Turkish conqueror in his five-movement symphony about the 15th-century 'Fall of Constantinople.' After I first heard the opening work, 'Arches', I was amazed to read that only five acoustic instruments plus a synthesizer were used; it has the effect of a full orchestra. Don't miss these world premiere recordings."
John Sunier, Audio Magazine
Track list:
1. Arches, for orchestra
2. Symphony No. 2 'Fall of Constantinople': I: City and the Walls
3. Symphony No. 2 'Fall of Constantinople': II: Hagia Sophia
4. Symphony No. 2 'Fall of Constantinople': III: Speeches of Emperor Constantine and Mehmet the Conqueror
5. Symphony No. 2 'Fall of Constantinople': IV: Ships on Rails: the Marine Battle
6. Symphony No. 2 'Fall of Constantinople': V: Fall of Constantinople
7. Remembering Lycia, for piano & orchestra: I: Tale of the Sea
8. Remembering Lycia, for piano & orchestra: II: Whispering Night
9. Remembering Lycia, for piano & orchestra: III: Pounding Waves
10. Remembering Lycia, for piano & orchestra: IV: Eternal Tombs
Read more about Kamran Ince here.
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