Release Date: 01 May 2005
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313258826
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: INCE
Description
Kamran Ince (b.1960)Symphony No. 3 'Siege of Vienna' Symphony No. 4 'Sardis'Winner of the Prix de Rome and Lili Boulanger Prize,Kamran Ince was born in Montana to American/Turkishparents. Growing up in Turkey (1966-80), he trained atthe Ankara and Izmir State Conservatories (theory,cello, piano), before returning to America to work withSamuel Adler, David Burge, Christopher Rouse andJoseph Schwantner at Oberlin and the Eastman Schoolof Music (gaining his doctorate). Formerly Composerin-Residence with the California Symphony (1991-93),he is Professor of Composition at the University ofMemphis, Co-Director of the Dr Erol ?£?ºer Center forAdvanced Music Research (MIAM), Istanbul TechnicalUniversity, and Founder-Director of the IstanbulModern Music Ensemble.Written mainly to commission, Kamran Ince'spredominantly instrumental catalogue embracessymphonies, concertos, chamber music and scores forballet and film. His music expresses the topography of acountry which stretches from the High Taurus to theCaucasus, the Aegean to the Mediterranean and BlackSea, 'a fantastical jumble of mountains, deserts, plainsand ocean', as one commentator has described Ince'smuscular, primeval, neo-romantic style. But there is alsoa quality about it that is very American, the untamedAmerica of the wild, open spaces of the Montana of thefirst six years of his boyhood.Principal inland trading-post on the road to theOrient, Ferdinand and Leopold's Vienna stood at thefrontier between Europe and the 'Turkes', Christianityand Islam. The Ottomans laid siege to the Habsburgstwice - under S??leyman the Magnificent in 1529 andMehmet IV in 1683. Against expectations neitherattempt succeeded. The lighter spoils of war, on theother hand, did - 'Turkish music', coffee, croissantssymbolic of the 'Great Flag of Mahommed' - ensuringthe old lion from the East would never be forgotten. TheThird Symphony, Siege of Vienna (September 1994 -March 1995) was commissioned by the AlbanySymphony Orchestra. The orchestral forces are notablysubstantial, including an extensive percussion battery,piano, synthesizer and electric bass guitar.Exceptionally, there are passages also for a quartet ofWagner tubas - which instruments, courtesy of theCzech Philharmonic Orchestra, we decided to retain inthe present recording, dispensing with the hornsotherwise indicated in the score. Using material, Incesays, that is 'a synthesis of West and East [...] a meetingof the characteristics of the two,' the work falls 'loosely'into five movements subdivided into eight scenes,played without a break.I Long March [introduction] 'King of all theInhabitants of the Earth, and of the Earthly Paradise [...]Lord of all the Emperours of the World, from the risingof the Sun to the going down thereof, King of all Kings,Lord of the Tree of Life [...] I will make my self yourMaster, pursue you from East to West, and extend myMajesty to the end of the Earth' (The Great TurksDeclaration of War Against the Emperour of Germany,20th Febr
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
