Thursday

30.10.25

20:00 - 22:30

10€ - 40€ (plus booking fee)

10€ - 40€ (plus booking fee)

ITO Music Festival, Philharmonie Berlin

Sounds and Colours of the Silk Road – Gala Concert 2025

Philharmonie Berlin, Kammermusiksaal
Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße 1, 10785 Berlin
Admission from 19:00h

The concert is made possible by the generous support of the Stiftung am Grunewald foundation.

Sogdiana chamber orchestra

Philharmonie Berlin, © Heribert_Schindler

About the concert

On 30 October 2025 at 8:00 pm, the gala concert “Sounds and Colors of the Silk Road” will light up the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie: masterpieces of Turkic-language music meet European classics—virtuosic, richly colored, and transcending borders. A highlight of the Into the Open Season 2025 that connects sonic worlds and opens new perspectives on familiar traditions.


Artists


Program

PART I (approx. 45 min)

  • Avaz Mansurov (1957–): “Echoes of the Past”

  • Manas – excerpt from the Kyrgyz epic – Narrator: Rysbay Isakov

  • Iki kelime – Turkish folk melody for qanun – Soloist: Ahmet Baran

  • Bulbul – Latif Khamidi, Kazakh folk song – Soprano: Zarina Altynbayeva

  • Sadri gusfand – Uzbek folk melody for rubab

  • Bride in Yellow – Azerbaijani folk melody for balaban – Soloist: Sardor Primov

  • Mavrigi – Bukharan folk song – Vocals: Dilfuza Kobilova

  • Uzbek Rhythms – melodies for doyra


INTERMISSION

PART II (approx. 45 min)

  • Üzeyir Hacibeyli (1885–1948): Overture to Koroglu

  • Abdumajid Karabaev (1992–): Festivity

  • Esimde – Atay Ogonbaev (1900–1949), Kyrgyz folk song after Chingiz Aitmatov – Vocals: Jyldyz Osmonalieva

  • Firaqi – Rovshen Nepesov, Turkmen melody after Magtymguly Firaqi for violin – Violin: Selbi Kadyrova

  • Franz Lehár (1870–1948): Aria from Giuditta Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß – Soprano: Zarina Altynbayeva

  • The Beauties of Khiva – Khorezmian dance

  • Hans Last (1929–2015): The Lonely Shepherd – for nay – Soloist: Bekzod Turaev

  • “Classical Mash-up” – Mozart · Bach · Beethoven

  • Sultonali Rahmatov (1970–2025): Melodies of the Orient

General Sponsor

  • Stiftung am Grunewald

Partner

  • TURKSOY
  • Botschaft Usbekistan
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