Saygun: Complete Strings Quartet.

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2006 - Made in Germany Recording: Studio Stolberger Strasse, PG Musik WDR 3, December 1-4, 2003, September 20-22 & November 19, 2004.

Saygun: Complete String Quartets. 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. As a result of his folkloric borrowings, his string quartets strongly resemble Bartók's masterpieces in the genre, particularly for their haunting melodies, bitingly dissonant counterpoint, propulsive rhythms, and irregular meters. However, Saygun's works are not on a par with Bartók's in artistry or originality, and though the music has a seriousness that may recommend it to devotees of modern chamber music, the four essays here are a mixed lot. The String Quartet No. 1, Op.

Ahmed Adnan Saygun Complete String Quartets (1 of 2). "Please retry". Sample this album Artist (Sample). 1. 30. String Quartet No 1 op. 27 - Allegro moderato.

Having surveyed Ahmed Adnan Saygun's symphonies, CPO turns to the 20th-century Turkish master's four string quartets. I love the First Quartet's Adagio, with its long, overlapping legato lines that are anchored by the gentlest pizzicato pokes. Saygun's palette had toughened up by the time of the Second Quartet, with its neo-Bartókian col legno effects and petulant trills that penetrate like hornet stings. The finale might be described as a portrait of churning dissonant chords, book-ended by slow, rhapsodic episodes.

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Ahmet Adnan Saygun was born in 1907 in İzmir, then part of the Ottoman Empire – in today's Turkey. There were frequent concerts given by the Ottoman military bands, and performances of Western works by chamber music ensembles at the time and this influenced Saygun to start his first music lessons in elementary school. Music Web International.

The Danel Quartet is a French string quartet established in June 1991. The ensemble has worked with the Amadeus Quartet. For Shostakovich's complete string quartets, it worked with the Borodin Quartet and Fyodor Druzhinin of the Beethoven Quartet and also with Pierre Penassou and Walter Levin, both members of the LaSalle Quartet. The Danel Quartet performs the classical repertoire as well as contemporary music. They are specialized in the Russian repertoire