This concert is to be given by ‘Orkestra İstanbul’, an ensemble founded in 2005 by conductor Oğuzhan Balcı and sponsored for this season by TEB Yıldız Bankacılık. Their programme on October 10 consists of works by Schubert (his Overture in C minor, D8a, written when the composer was 14); Mozart (his 1782 Piano Concerto No 12 in A major, K 414, with Emre Elivar as soloist – in the second movement, Mozart quotes a theme by Johann Christian Bach, his London-based and recently-deceased mentor); and Tchaikovsky (his ever-popular Serenade for Strings, written in 1880; the second movement of the four – the Valse – has become a famous piece in its own right, while the third, the Élégie, contains melodies that Wikipedia describes as ‘mournful and shockingly beautiful’).
Issue 66, December 2023
Turkey’s Centenary Issue
