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the boisterously confident Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic cuts another lively swathe through colourful 20th-century repertoire...[In the Bartok] The Turkish players and their Viennese conductor... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Feb 2012
Catalogue No: ONYX4086
Label: Onyx
Length: 80 minutes

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Prokofiev: Ala et Lolly, Op. 20 - "Scythian Suite"

Work length21:13

$4.00

$5.60

Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic
Sascha Goetzel

I. L'adoration

Track length6:17

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$1.40

II. Le dieu ennemi

Track length3:14

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III. La nuit

Track length6:23

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IV. Le départ glorieux

Track length5:19

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Schulhoff: Ogelala Suite, Op. 53

Work length12:34

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$7.00

Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic
Sascha Goetzel

I. Szene 'Kampf'

Track length1:59

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$1.40

II. Fesseltanz

Track length2:28

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III. Ivana's Tanz

Track length5:30

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IV. Siegestanz

Track length1:56

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V. Finale

Track length0:41

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Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz. 73 (suite)

Work length20:32

$6.00

$8.40

Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic
Sascha Goetzel

I. Introduction

Track length2:41

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II. 1st Decoy Game

Track length3:57

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III. 2nd Decoy Game

Track length3:31

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IV. 3rd Decoy Game

Track length2:35

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V. Dance

Track length5:03

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VI. Chase

Track length2:45

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Holst: The Perfect Fool

Work length11:46

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$4.20

Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic
Sascha Goetzel

Ballet Music: The Perfect Fool: I. Introduction and Dance of the Spirits of the Earth

Track length4:48

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$1.40

Ballet Music: The Perfect Fool: II. Dance of the Spirits of Water

Track length3:13

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Ballet Music: The Perfect Fool: III. Dance of the Spirits of Fire

Track length3:45

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Ravel: La Valse

Work length14:00

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$2.80

Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic
Sascha Goetzel

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Another orchestral tour de force from Sascha Goetzel and this outstanding orchestra: after their acclaimed debut recording for ONYX of Respighi, Florent Schmitt and Hindemith, the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra and their charismatic Viennese music director have devised a fascinating programme of ballet music composed during the turbulent inter-war years of the 20th century.

The music reflects the edgy, dangerous and turbulent political and social landscape of the period. This is music of great rhythmic vitality: Ravel’s refracted memories of a vanished Habsburg Vienna destroyed by the 1914–18 War, to the primitive barbarism of Prokofiev’s 'Scythian Suite' and the lurid violence of Bartok’s 'Miraculous Mandarin' with its themes of lust, criminality, prostitution and murder.

Schulhoff’s ballet 'Ogelala' like Prokofiev’s score concerns pagan rituals and warring tribes, and a young couple who are meant to kill each other, but end up falling in love.

Holst’s comic opera, 'The Perfect Fool', written in 1918–22, begins with a ballet which is danced by Spirits of Earth, Water and Fire. The score is brilliant – and though less concerned with human drama than the other works on this disc, the drive, energy and sheer brilliance of Holst’s score is very much of its time.

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May 2012

the boisterously confident Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic cuts another lively swathe through colourful 20th-century repertoire...[In the Bartok] The Turkish players and their Viennese conductor offer muscular strings, dirty slithering brass, but sagging momentum. Yet it's fascinating to hear the suite alongside other music similarly influenced by the period's big shocker, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

June 2012

There's something uniquely exciting about hearing a keen young orchestra devouring difficult but exciting music whole, which is precisely what the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic does...Most of the orchestral playing delivers in spades and the sound quality is very good too, if occasionally wanting in inner detail. So, taken as a whole, this is an exciting CD (the orchestra's second for Onyx) that deserves the widest currency.

10th February 2012

These five pieces ably summarise the ferment of creativity unleashed in the
aftermath of the First World War...Most fascinating of all is the Ogelala ballet suite by Erwin Schulhoff, a Czech composer who died in a Nazi concentration camp: it most clearly exhibits the liberating influence of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

18th February 2012

A brilliant idea: to assemble five ballets from the 1910s or 1920s that are all supposedly inspired by the mythological past, yet evoke the violence of the “machine age”...The Turkish all-stars give hard-edged performances under Sascha Goetzel.

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