Mozart - RONDO ALLA TURCA │Baglama & Stringquartet - (Taylan Arikan & Quartetto Borromini)

Описание: EXCERPT FROM THE CONCERT, MOZART RELOADED IN 2018 @LAC LUGANO
Taylan Arikan, bağlama - Quartetto Borromini, Stringquartet

Barbara Ciannamea, vl
Andrea Mascetti, vl
Georgiana Bordeianu, va
Claude Hauri, vc




The popular eighteenth-century fashion of turkish - that is, of composing and playing "alla Turca" - was strongly influenced by the triumph of the Holy League in the Second Siege of Vienna in 1699, which put an end to the Austro-Turkish wars with the defeat of the Ottomans. Many European composers absorbed the upheavals of that particular historical moment by transferring their sensations into music, from the deepest to the most superficial. The influence of Turkish music was not, however, real and precise: the composers of the period did not conduct any ethnomusicological investigation, and did not adopt any style or sound of Middle Eastern countries, also because the European public was certainly not yet ready to accept certain aspects - considered unpleasant and primitive - of those musical styles. In fact, traditional Turkish music included microtones, arabesques, different scale systems, and non-Western rhythmic patterns, and Europeans considered this type of music - as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart once said - "offensive to the ears": short extracts of it were tolerated in the works, but only to add comic effects.
Of all these eighteenth-century influences, today we remember above all the Turkish March of the last movement of the Piano Sonata in A major, KV 331 by W. A. ​​Mozart.

Mozart Reloaded fits into the perfect center of the theme, attempting a synthesis - unlikely but still plausible - between Mozart's music for string quartet, Mozart's vision of turkey, current Turkish music and a new perspective on Mozart's work : all in a single concert program, also surrounded by Bartók's Romanian Dances (also a symbol of a musical tradition halfway between the European West and the Middle East) and a rereading by Mathias Steinauer who attempts a conciliatory conclusion of the program.


www.taylanarikan.com
www.mathiassteinauer.com
www.claudehauri.com


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