"Istanbul Music Festival, review
The Byzantine church of Hagia Eirene provides an ideal setting for the Istanbul Music Festival. Rating * * * *
By John Allison
Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica
Presented under the banner of “Journeys to Faraway Lands”, this year’s Istanbul Music Festival puts Turkish composers and musicians into a mix featuring performers and works from around the world. Elsewhere, that might sound like a catch-all theme, yet here it makes complete sense. Taking as its starting point the Années de pèlerinage of Liszt in his bicentennial year, the entire programme flows naturally in a city that has long been at the cultural crossroads. "
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