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Historical Turkish Music Ensemble & MVD Russian Academic Army Ensemble - Mehter - MVD Russian Academic Army Ensemble Friendship Concert (2008)

Friendship Concert

The trumpet and the nakkare (a small kettledrum used in janissary music) while the Academic Chorus Orchestra of Russia chanted janissary rhymes, the janissary band interpreted Kalinka. 



Historical Turkish Music Ensemble 

The ensemble for which the Turkish Culture Ministry launch work in 1991 was founded for Traditional Turkish Music, one of our important cultural assets, Sufi music and the various kinds of Janissary music in particular, to be properly performed with the very style exclusive to them, promoted and studied extensively by researchers. The ensemble, which did a lot of work in the way of finding the appropiate performers, researching repertoire and studying singing style, has started giving concerts periodically. The ensemble working in two groups, one comitted to Sufi and the other to Janissary music, expanded its repertoire, drawing on the classical works performed in the Janissary Training centre and Mehterhane (the school and organization of old Turkish Military Bands) which were shut down in 1826 and in the Dervish Lodges closed in 1925. The Janissary Section also features the classical outfit, the plumes and the flags used in old times. The Culture Ministry Istanbul Historical Turkish Music Ensemble has continuously been conducting research and studying performing styles not only to promote this most important cultural asset, whose roots go far back to history, in its original form and grandeur to music lovers, but also to consign this blessed legacy to future generations.?
The ensemble gave hundreds of concerts both at home and abroad, performing Sufi music, various types of Traditional Turkish Music and Janissary Music. 

The Janissary which was the world's oldest military band was first mentioned in the Orhun tablets as "kuburge" and "tug". Divan-i Lugat-it Turk also tells of this kind of music having been performed at the court before the sultans. Tug was performed on special days and in war time. The aim was to encourage and motivate the soldiers. The ultimate purpose was to dent the morale of the enemy, deplete their fighting capabilities and to halt the war in the shortest time possible. 

Many western composers were inspired by the janissary music. Mozart was the best known of them. He composed the Turkish March, having been influenced by the music performed by janissary bands. In fact, some other western composers used the janissary music as a musical style and structure. The attention shown in the janissary music has not dwindled throughout the centuries and not only composers but western countries have felt the impact of this music which resulted in military music bands and ensembles being set up in the European countries on the model of the Ottoman Janissary Band. 

The Janissary was taken over by the Ottoman Empire from the Anatolian Seljuk State. The first Janissary concert was given at the Masjid Square in Sogut after the Inegol Fortress was taken. This led to the formation of the Ottoman Janissary Band. The Band performed a series of works one after the other at every festive and rejoiceful occasion. 

The Janissary Band performed in three continents throughout the centuries It was not a tool of festivity but a symbol of grandeur, greatness and magnanimity. The thunder of the percussion instruments widely used by the band echoed the State's awesome structure, greatness and holiness. The excitement, fervor and sentiments of heroism the band injected into the Ottoman armies immersly contributed to many victories. 

Wind instruments such as shrill pipe, pipe, kurrenay and janissary whistle and percussion instruments like kos (which is a big drum used in signalling), nakkare (a small kettledrum), cymbal and cevgan are what Ottoman Janissary used for the most part.

All instruments were equal in number and it was the number of instruments which determined te size of the janissary band. The Ottoman Sultan's janissary referred to as "Tabl u Alem-i Hassa" was, so to speak, a nine layer band, which means that it had nine of each instrument. There were also janissary bands with twelve or even sixteen of each instrument. Besides the Sultan, the cabinet ministres and the viziers also had their Mehterhane, the school and organization of old Turkish military bands. 

The military bands maintained their progress until 1826. Sultan Mehmet II shut down the "mehterhane" in 1828. The Janissary Band was set up anew in 1914 as part of the Military Museum. Having existed until the first years of the Republic, surviving World War I and the National War of Liberation, the Janissary Band was banned again in 1935 to re-emerge in 1952 as part of the Military Museum. Many Janissary bands followed thereinafter, one of which was the ensemble set up in 1991 by the Culture and Tourism Ministry. 

Admired wherever it gave concerts, the Janissary Band performed in many capitals, among them Vienna and Lisbon. The Band also gives concerts jointly with different orchestras, displaying its capabilities in variegated genres. 

MVD Russian Academic Army Ensemble

The ensemble was set up in 1973 as part of the Russian Interior Ministry. As a result of the founder musicians' active and preserving efforts, the ensemble started giving concerts within three months of its foundation in various parts of the country to the workers in the rural areas, military units and the employees of the Interior Ministry. The choir reached a near-perfect point in the course of time with an increased level of performance and expanded repertoire. The MDV Russian Academic Army Ensemble today is comprised of a choir, orchestra and dancers.

The ensemble has a reperoire of more than 1000 pieces for the soloists, choir and orchestra. It features classics of world music from different periods, including those of Beethoven, Weber, Schubert, Rossini and Verdi as well as a cappella pieces by O. Lasso, Glinka and P. Tchiakovsky. The ensemble performs Russian folk songs, not to mention Russian and western pop music and has given very successful concerts with such musicians as N. Babinka, N. Baskov, V.Talkanov, L. Leshenko and A. Rossenbaum.

The ensemble, though very conscientious in retaining the traditions of the art of militarism, does not refrain from presenting new and contemporary forms and formats during its stage performances. 

One of Russia's leading conductors, Victor Eliseev, the present chief and art director of the ensemble, who was a private when he joined the Interior Ministry Internal Army in 1969, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. 
Eliseev served between 1973 and 1985 as the chief of the choir and has also been at the helm of the Interior Ministry Culture Center alongside his present job since 1985. Eliseev has also been giving lessons since 1998 at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire. Adittionally, he carries out technical work in music with Russia's senior musicians, Ludmilla Bogomolova and Yulia Demetyeva.

The MDV Academic Russian Army Ensemble, besides its concerts across Russia, performed in many countries, including Germany, Belgium, Malta, Israel, China, Mexico, Brazil, Jordan and Qatar, thrilling with their competence and skill millions of people throughout the world. The ensemble figures in all the cultural activities spearheaded by the Russian government. 

Program

1. Russian Federation National Anthem
2. Turkish Republic National Anthem
3. Suzinak Pesrev
4. Mehter Vuruyor
5. Ti pozovi meny Rossiya
6. Nihavent Longa
7. Hicaz Humayun Pesrev
8. Soloviyi Rossii 
9. Estergon Kalesi
10. Tavas Zeybegi
11. Ballada o soldate
12. Kazak Dansi
13. Ceyranim Gel Gel
14. Zavituski 
15. Ah ti, nocenka
16. Ney Taksimi-Tekbir-Selat-i Ummiye
17. Genc Osman
18. Karadeniz Oyunu
19. Katyusa
20. Yine bir Gulnihal
21. Hekimoglu
22. Glyaju v ozora sinie
23. Ceddin Deden
24. Uvezu tebya ya v tundru
25. Poputnaya pesnya
26. Kirklareli ekibi
27. Kalinka
28. Ceddin Deden 


Language Turkish, Russian


DVD Source: trt, r0, dvd9 
DVD Format: PAL, 4:3, non-anamorphic 
DVD Audio: Turkish&Russian DD2.0 

Size 4.28GB (4,594,966,528 bytes)