Re-Imagining the Brandenburg Concertos
A 300-year Celebration
Re-imagining the Brandenburg Concertos; A 300-year Celebration
November 15-16 2021 at Cemal Resit Rey (CRR) Concert Hall in Istanbul
2-concert series of the 6 Brandenburg Concertos, paired with 6 world premieres
6 Premieres:
Zeynep Toraman, Colorists are epic poets; a slow movement; Berkant Gençkal, The Fragments of Ender’s Book; Emircan Pehlivan, Dolapdere Concerto; Sabina Khujaeva, Astray; Akin Kilis, Konçerto Pera; Toykan Efe Kahraman, Déjà vu
This project Re-imagining the Brandenburg Concertos presents this set of Bach’s 6 concertos alongside premieres of 6 new pieces commissioned by KK. These new works will each be scored with Bach’s instrumentation, and performed side by side with the original Bach works.
In 1721, Bach sent his collection of 6 concertos for various instrumental combinations to the Margrave of Brandenburg in Berlin (the military commander of the Holy Roman Empire). Many scholars believe that Bach was offering these works as a kind of ‘job application’, but nothing seemed to come from his submission. The 6 manuscripts were rediscovered in 1849, and in recent times these pieces have become some of the most beloved works on chamber music concert series around the world.
These programs follow a summer residency in Cappadocia, and bring together a group of 24 musicians from prestigious ensembles including the Manhattan Quartet, members of the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, Istanbul State Symphony, Hezarfen Ensemble, Hoppa Project and from institutions such as Mimar Sinan Music Conservatory, the Ankara Music and Fine Arts University and Istanbul State Conservatory as well as Bursa State Conservatory. KK invited Hungarian harpsichordist and scholar Márton Borsányi as a special guest advisor for this project. He teaches at the MDW/University for Music and Art in Vienna and Liszt Academy in Budapest.
Brandenburg program 1
No. 2 Bach, in F major, BWV 1047 13’
No. 2 Akın Kilis
Piccolo trumpet, flute, oboe, solo violin
2 violins, viola, cello, bass and harpsichord
No. 1 Bach, in F major, BWV 1046
2 horns, 3 oboes, bassoon, solo violin, 2 violins, viola, cello, bass and harpsichord
No.1 ’ Emircan Pehlivan
No. 4 7-10’ Berkant Gençkal
No. 4 Bach, in G major, BWV 1049
2 flutes, solo violin, 2 violins, viola, cello, bass and harpsichord
Brandenburg Program 2
No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
3 violins, 3 violas, 3 cellos, and harpsichord
No. 3 Zeynep Toraman
No. 6 Toykan Efe Kahraman
No. 6 in B major, BWV 1051
2 violas, 3 cello, bass, and harpsichord
No. 5 Sabina Khujaeva
No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050
Solo flute, solo harpsichord, solo violin, 1 violin, viola, cello and bass
Flute : Cem Önertürk, Seray Seyhan
Oboe : Serkan Altınok, Ulaş Yurtoğlu, Ufuk Soygürbüz
Bassoon : Berke Hitay
Horn : Cem Akçora, Hüseyin Uçar
Trumpet : Onurcan Çağatay
Violin : Ellen Jewett, Anna Lim, İmge Tilif
Viola : Laure Krentzman, Dinç Nayan, Nora Heder
Cello : Mehmet Gökhan Bağcı, Gözde Yaşar, Selin Nardemir, Alp Ediz İlgen
Double Bass : Deniz Yurdakul, Gökçe Küçükarslan
Harpsichord : Marton Borsanyi, Barış Büyükyıldırım, Kandemir Basmacıoğlu
Conductor: Erberk Eryılmaz
We are grateful to
The Liszt Institute-Hungarian Cultural Center
Istanbul
for their invaluable support to this project
