Into The Open

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

• Zarina Altynbayeva (soprano, Kazakhstan)

• Rysbay Isakov (narrator, Kyrgyzstan)

• Zhyldyz Osmonalieva (vocals, Kyrgyzstan)

• Ahmet Baran (qanun, Turkey)

• Selbi Kadyrova (violin, Turkmenistan)

• Bekzod Turaev (nay, Uzbekistan)

• Sogdiana Chamber Orchestra and the Navbahor Dance Ensemble

• Conductor: Kahramon Bazarov

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