From the 1930s until his death in 1991, Ahmed Adnan Saygun was a significant figure in modern Turkish music. His four String Quartets are among his best-known compositions in the West, and they are presented with extraordinary vitality and emotional depth on this 2006 double-disc by the Danel Quartet. Aesthetically, Saygun looked to the ideas and ...
If you define classical music as Western-styled concert music, then you can count the number of great Turkish classical music composers on one hand. Turkey already has, selecting five of its pioneering figures from the early twentieth century as "The Turkish Five," and the most prominent among these names is that of Ahmed Adnan Saygun. At the ...
A member of Yo-Yo Ma's popular Silk Road Ensemble and an acclaimed solo performer in his own right, virtuoso pianist Joel Fan surveys the international keyboard repertoire in this 2006 collection and reveals his versatility in many styles, often with bravura playing. World Keys, Fan's debut album on Reference, is a survey of musical approaches ...
Ahmed Adnan Saygun, born in 1907 in the ancient Turkish city of Izmir, was something between a colleague and a protégé of Bartók, assisting the Hungarian composer in the collection of Turkish folk music. His career veered rather uneasily between Turkey and the West, however, and some of his orchestral music is firmly in the neo-classic camp, using ...
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