Kamran Ince’s Symphony No. 4 Closes the International Ankara Music Festival

Kamran Ince’s Symphony No. 4 is reprised this month on April 30 at the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey conducted by Işin Metin. The performance marks the closing concert of the 28th International Ankara Music Festival.

Paying homage to the historical, mythological and religious significance of the ancient Turkish city of Sardis (present-day Sart), Symphony No. 4 consists of five movements each evoking specific aspects and locales of the city  and was commissioned by Crawford H. Greenewalt Jr., Director of Excavations at the Sardis site north-east of Ephesus. Sardis was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia in the first millennium BC. One of the most important cities of the Persian Empire, it was a sight of much conflict due to its situation on an important highway leading to the Aegean coast and to its commanding the wide and fertile plain of the Hermus. It was also an important early pulpit of Christianity and one of the Seven Churches of Asia, as noted in the Book of Revelation.

Naxos just released a new recording of Ince's Symphony No. 5, Requiem Without Words, Hot, Red, Cold, Vibrant and Before Infrared on a new disc entitled Galatasary. The disc is available for purchase here. In the Fall of 2010 Naxos released three albums of the music of Kamran Ince for download. The recordings represent an extensive offering of Ince's chamber and orchestral music including Curve, Hammers and Whistlers, Strange Stone, Concerto for Orchestra, Turkish Instruments and Voices, Symphony No. 2 "Fall of Constantinople" and the Piano Concerto. Learn more on each album at www.naxos.com.

To purchase the Naxos recording of Symphony No. 4, visit www.naxos.com.

Learn more on Kamran Ince’s music at his Composer Profile and www.kamranince.com.

Kamran Ince
Symphony No. 4, "Sardis" (2000)
for orchestra
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26’