Ottomania, Part Two - This week on Harmonia, we're continuing our exploration of Ottoman culture and its impact on European arts with a look at the ways that contemporary musicians are using Turkish traditional music to inform their approaches to the music of the past, including our featured release by the Pera Ensemble with Mehmet Cemal and Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli.
Thomas Adès and pianist Kirill Gerstein's reunite for Adès' Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Gerstein, interprets both Adès' concerto and Ravel's wildly original Concerto for the Left Hand. Adès as a conductor leads the symphony from his critically lauded opera The Tempest as well as Ravel's emotionally searing La valse.