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2024-01-06 09:54:00
At Kings Place this month, Turkish pianist Can Çakmur celebrates the Hamamatsu Competition which he won in 2018, not to mention embarking on his 12-disc Schubert with BIS
[…] wonderful people, who have become friends and he continues to return to Japan each year for some project or other. This year he will be playing two-piano repertoire with Noriko Ogawa in Hamamatsu.Following his prize-winners disc with BIS (which includes music by Schubert, Haydn, Bartok, Fazil Say, Fuyuhiko Sasaki and Beethoven, transcribed Liszt), Can followed this up with a recording of Liszt's transcription of Schubert's Schwanengesang, and then Without Borders with music by Bartok, Mitropoulos, Saygun and Enescu, and he has now embarked on his Schubert+ series, the second volume of which will be released in February 2024 and contains Schubert's Three Piano Pieces D.946 and Four Impromptus D.935 juxtaposed with Brahms' Four Piano Pieces Op.119. The first volume, which paired Schubert's early A minor sonata D537 and A major sonata D959 with Schoenberg's Three Pieces, Op. 11, was the Editor's Choice in the August 2023 edition of Gramophone magazine.The […]
2021-04-09 09:00:08
A journey to Anatolia through the ears of The Turkish Five, pioneers of western classical music in Turkey
To Anatolia - Cemal Reşit Rey, Ferid Alnar, Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Adnan Saygun, Necil Kazım Akses; Beyza Yazgan; Bridge Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 9 April 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Music from The Turkish Five, composers who combined Western European training with Turkish traditional music in this fascinating piano evocation of the Anatolian peninsulaThis album on Bridge Records from Turkish pianist Beyza Yazgan, currently resident in the USA, is entitled To Anatolia: Selections from The Turkish Five and consists of a collection of 26 short piano movements by five Turkish composers, Cemal Reşit Rey (1904-1985), Ferid Alnar (1906-1978), Ulvi Cemal Erkin (1906-1972), Adnan Saygun (1907-1991), and Necil Kazım Akses (1908-1999). These five composers arose out of the initiative of Kemal Atatürk (the first President of the Republic of Turkey established in 1923) as part of his wider movement to bring contemporary Western European arts to […]
2021-03-18 07:00:00
FARAO - Chamber Music - Mendelssohn - Shostakovich - Zimmermann
Felix Mandelssohn Violin Sonata in F major (1820) Violin Sonata in F minor op. 4 (1825) Violin Sonata in F (1838) Menuhin Edition Andreas Reiner violin Desar Sulejmani piano Farao 2013 D. Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 op. 67 A. Arensky Piano Trio No. 1 op. 32 S. Racmhaninov Piano Trio No. 1 op. posth. ATOS Trio Farao 2014 S. Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 6, op. 82 Maurice Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit Jean Sibelius Klavierstücke op. 76 Béla Bartók Piano Sonata Sz 80 F arao 2018 A. A. Saygun Violin Sonata op. 20 Suite for violin and piano op. 33 A. Babadshanian Violin Sonata E. Bagdassarian Rapsody for violin amd piano Rebekka Hartmann violin Margarita Oganesian piano Farao 2015 R. Strauss Cello Sonata op. 6 Romanze AV 75 F. Mendelssohn Cello Sonata […]
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2021-01-18 10:48:08
Turks mourn composer, 89
The doyen of Turkish composers Muammar Sun died this weekend at 89. A student of the composer Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Sun founded the Composers, Conductors and Musicologists Union and ran his own self-named publishing house.
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