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EUROPEAN MUSIC AT THE OTTOMAN COURT Conducted and introduced by Emre ARACI PROGRAMME Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs Giuseppe Donizetti Pasha (1788-1856) Marcia favorita del Gran Sultano Mahmud II Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) Gran Marcia Militare Imperiale ‘Sultano Abdulmecid’ Charles Louis Napoléon d’Albert (1809-1886) The Sultan’s Polka Callisto Guatelli Pasha (1818-1900) Marche de L’Éxposition Ottomane Sultan Abdülaziz (1830-1876) Invitation à la Valse (c.1861) Rifat Bey (1820-1888) Prière pour Sultan Murad V (1876) Sultan Murad V (1840-1904) Valse en Mi Bémol Majeur (MS, 1879) Fehime Sultan (1875-1929) Marche L’Union National Burhaneddin Efendi (1885-1949) Grande Marche Orchestral arrangements © Dr Emre Aracı Emre ARACI - EUROPEAN MUSIC AT THE OTTOMAN COURT - for String Orchestra European Music at the Ottoman Court is a themed concert introduced and conducted by the Turkish musicologist Dr Emre Aracı who specialises in the European musical tradition in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, when the famous opera composer Gaetano Donizetti’s eldest brother Giuseppe Donizetti became master of music at the Turkish court. Better known as Donizetti Pasha, his influence prompted a fashion for Italian opera and European popular music within the palaces along the Bosphorus, where ladies of the harem learned to play the pianoforte with instruments imported from Vienna and the military bands of the sultans played marches by Rossini and the Donizetti brothers expressly written for them. The passion of the court for the ballroom music of Europe also resulted in royal compositions by members of the imperial family in the genres of polkas, marches and waltzes, to the extent of some even appearing in the catalogues of the publishing houses in Europe. Through Aracı’s orchestrations these ephemeral works have found a new lease of life and now take us to the unknown territory of forgotten compositions from the Ottoman Empire. While explaining the history of every individual work, Aracı also shows the levels of musical interchange that existed between East and West in an age which is now totally confined to the dusty shelves of archives. EMRE ARACI A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Dr Emre Aracı has made original contributions to the scholarship of Turkish music through his pioneering research focusing on the European musical practice in the Ottoman court in the 19th century. His CDs include European Music at the Ottoman Court, War and Peace: Crimea 1853-56, Bosphorus by Moonlight and Istanbul to London, also released as compilations under the titles of Invitation to the Seraglio (Warner Classics) and Euro-Ottomania (Brilliant Classics), which The Gramophone praised as “an unexpectedly attractive collection, and the musical presentation is expert idiomatic and alive”. He is the author of six books, all published in Turkey: the biographies of the eminent 20th-century Turkish composer Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1999) and Donizetti Pasha (2006), Master of Music to the Ottoman sultans, Naum Theatre (2010), Istanbul’s 19th-century Italian opera house, Kayıp Seslerin İzinde [In search of Lost Sounds] (2011), a collection of his selected articles, Yusuf Agâh Efendi, The first Turkish Ambassador in London (2013) and Elgar in Turkey (2014). In 2012 the Ankara State Ballet produced Murad V, a ballet in two acts, based on Aracı’s libretto on the life and original compositions of one of the most productive composer sultans of the Ottoman Empire. Based in the United Kingdom, he continues his TurcoEuropean historical music research under the patronage of the Çarmıklı family / Nurol Holding Inc. For further information please visit: www.emrearaci.weebly.com ORCHESTRA: 6 Violin I + 4 Violin II + 4 Viola + 4 Cello + 2 Double bass = 20 players Emre ARACI - EUROPEAN MUSIC AT THE OTTOMAN COURT - for String Orchestra