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Kamran Ince’s Symphony in Blue Premieres in Istanbul; Naxos Portrait Albums Win Wide Critical Acclaim

May. 30, 2012

Kamran Ince’s <em>Symphony in Blue</em> Premieres in Istanbul; Naxos Portrait Albums Win Wide Critical Acclaim

Kamran Ince’s newest solo piano work, Symphony in Blue, premieres in Turkey this month. Commissioned by the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art to honor the rare viewing of Burhan Dogancay's Symphony in Blue (1987) as part of the Fifty Years of Urban Walls - A Burhan Dogancay Retrospective, the new work is performed by Huseyin Sermet at the museum on June 26, 2012.

The Kamran Ince portrait albums recently released on Naxos have garnered widespread critical acclaim. Here’s a digest of what just a few of the critics have to say on Ince’s music.

Symphony No. 2, “Fall of Constantinople”/Concerto for Orchestra, Turkish Instruments and Voices/Piano Concerto

Ince gets deeply into Turkish traditional music, presenting it from the inside out. He has an uncanny ability to meet the rawness of this aesthetic on its own terms and create ways to put it into a Western symphonic context without compromising its wailing grandeur.
- Jack Sullivan, American Record Guide

There’s a sincere passion here that, for many listeners, should sweep aside questions about whether or not this music is “important,” in the academic sense. If you’re looking for a thrill, this CD will supply it.
- Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare

Symphony No. 5, “Galatasaray”/Requiem Without Words/Hot, Red, Cold, Vibrant/Before Infrared

[Kamran Ince’s music is] colorful, spirited, and evocative.
- Stephen Eddins, allmusic.com

… the keening, melismatic vocals of the ethnic singer create the most potent sense of location. Again, after the work’s opening onslaughts, a more elegiac mood (but equally intense) is established, and Ince’s minimalist writing comes to the fore.
- Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare

Curve/Hammers and Whistlers/Istathenople/Strange Stone

Every piece here is memorable… The Milwaukee Choral Artists and Children’s Chorus are sensational; they have a great deal of difficult music to sing, from crazed shrieks to gorgeous lullabies, and they come through beautifully…The recording, made at Alverno Collete in Milwaukee, is big and lively, yet intimate in the peaceful sections. I was expecting a great deal from this and was not disappointed
- Jack Sullivan, American Record Guide

More details on each disc are here:

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Go to www.schott-music.com and www.kamranince.com for more information on the life and music of Kamran Ince.

Kamran Ince
Symphony No. 2 (1994)
“Fall of Constantinople”
for orchestra
2.2.3.2-4.3.2.1-timp.2perc(glsp, 2slot drum, vib, mar, tam-t, Chinese cym, tom-t, s.d
25’

Symphony No. 5 (2005)
“Galatasary”
for orchestra
0.2.1.asax.tsax.2-4.2.2.1-timp.3perc-egtr.elec bgtr.synth.pno
34’

Concerto for Orchestra, Turkish Instruments and Voices (2002)
pic.2.2.2.cbsn-4.3.2(2.btbn).1-4perc(lg darbuka, med tom-t, low tom-t, high tom-t, ten d, bender, Turkish village drum, brake d, high wdbl, tub bells, tam-t, b.d)-ney.kemence.2zurna.pno-str
18’

Requiem Without Words (2004)
for voices and chamber ensemble
fl.cl.tsax-tpt.btbn-perc(b.d, turkish village drum (with snares), darbuka, vib, rh synth).lute(tambour).elec bgtr.kemence.pno(synth)-vn.va.vc
20’

Hot, Red, Cold, Vibrant (1992)
for orchestra
2(2.pic).1.2ca.2.bcl.2-4.3.3.0-3perc(4tom-t, mar, glsp, 2xyl, Chinese cym, ten d, 4timbales, vib, tri, b.d, 4bng)-hp.pno-str
10’

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