This recital focusses on the Romantic lieder (German art songs) of Johannes Brahms (1833-97), performed by members of the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet company.

This concert will begin with a performance by the CRR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Nil Venditti, of Debussy’s 1894 symphonic poem Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune (‘Prelude to the Afternoon of a ...

This concert, one of the ‘Wednesday Classics’ series at this venue, features violinist Yağmur Tuna and pianist Özgür Deniz Akalın in a programme of works by Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and the ...

Covey will talk about the early 19th century American traveller and Turkophile George Bethune English and his insights on the Levent. Eric Covey is the author of Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire ...

For John Shakespeare Dyson’s preview, see the repeat of this concert at the Süreyya Opera House in Moda on Feburary 19.

In this concert, entitled ‘Masters of Chamber Music’ (Oda Müziğinin Ustaları), the excellent Borusan String Quartet – consisting of Esen Kıvrak and Nilay Sancar (violins), Efdal Altun (viola) and ...

Pianists Gülru Ensari and Herbert Schuch play a selection of Baroque, classical and modern works for piano duet. Their programme begins with J.S. Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582, an ...

In this concert ‘Trio Emerant’, an ensemble based in Holland that consists of clarinettist Emirhan Tuğa, cellist Antonis Pratsinakis and pianist Ere Lievonen, is to play works by Bach.

‘After the revolution of 1821, some Greeks continued to serve Ottoman Sultans in such positions as doctor, banker or photographer to the Sultan, or as diplomats. The Ecumenical Patriarch, who had ...

On the grapevine: lectures and symposiums around the world, plus guided walks ...

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Trio Ran consists of violinist Alican Süner (a former member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra), Çağ Erçağ (the former cellist of the Borusan Quartet) and pianist İris Şentürker, who was chosen as ...