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Monday, April 27, 2020

Ahmet Adnan Saygun - Symphony No. 4; Violin Concerto (Ari Rasilainen; Mirjam Tschopp)


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Composer: Ahmet Adnan Saygun
  • (01) Symphony No. 4, Op. 53
  • (04) Violin Concerto, Op. 44
  • (07) Suite for Orchestra, Op. 14

Mirjam Tschopp, violin
Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
Ari Rasilainen, conductor

Date: 2005
Label: cpo


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Review

This release completes CPO's excellent cycle of Saygun symphonies in fine fashion, and we can only hope that the series continues with additional orchestral works. Both the Fourth Symphony and the Violin Concerto are late compositions, meaning that stylistically they resemble a sort of Turkish Bartók or Szymanowski, with a wonderfully evocative folk melos underpinning the music's frequently dissonant and chromatic harmonic style. Saygun's gift at orchestration, and particularly in creating dark, velvety, voluptuous textures from such instruments as low winds, harps, and celesta, means that no matter how complex the music may be, it always falls gratefully on the ear. In the Violin Concerto especially, Saygun always seems to know when to conjure a straightforward tune to chart the progress of the evolving dialog between solo and orchestra.

On the other hand, the Suite Op. 14 is an early piece whose simpler style clearly belongs in the world of romantic nationalism, and its pungent 11 minutes breeze by before you know it. Even so, there's a certain basic melancholy that runs through all of Saygun's music, a deep, almost primal sadness that's very touching and that marks him out as a composer whose music communicates readily, all questions of his stylistic evolution aside.

The performances in this series have captured this quality particularly well, being unflinchingly direct in expression, colorfully played, very sympathetically conducted, and gorgeously recorded. In the concerto, Mirjam Tschopp does a particularly fine job with what must be a very difficult solo part. There's no need to go into further detail: if you collect characterful and rewarding contemporary music, you will want this.

-- David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday

More reviews:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2005/Aug05/saygun4_7770432.htm
https://www.amazon.com/Saygun-Symphony-Violin-Concerto-Suite/dp/B0009JVOJI

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Ahmet Adnan Saygun (7 September 1907 – 6 January 1991) was a Turkish composer, musicologist and writer on music. One of a group of composers known as the Turkish Five who pioneered western classical music in Turkey, his works show a mastery of Western musical practice, while also incorporating traditional Turkish folk songs and culture. His extensive output includes five symphonies, five operas, two piano concertos, concertos for violin, viola and cello, and a wide range of chamber and choral works. Saygun was known not only as a composer but also as a scholar, an ethnomusicologist, and a teacher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Adnan_Saygun

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Ari Rasilainen (born 18 February 1959 in Helsinki) is a Finnish conductor. Rasilainen studied under Jorma Panula (conducting) at the Sibelius Academy, and later under Arvid Jansons (conducting) and Alexander Lobko (violin) in Berlin. He started his career as a violinist and was leader of the 2nd violins with the Helsinki Philharmonic (1980-1986). Rasilainen was Chief Conductor of the Lappeenranta City Orchestra (1984-1989), the Norwegian Radio Symphony (1994-2002), and the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz (2002-2009). He has recorded More than 50 recordings for various labels.
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Rasilainen
http://www.arirasilainen.fi/

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Mirjam Tschopp (born 1976 in Zurich) is a Swiss violinist and violist. Tschopp studied violin with Aida Stucki and Franco Gulli, and viola with Christoph Schiller. Since her debut as a soloist at the age of thirteen, she has enjoyed a varied international career as both violinist and violist. As a soloist she has played with orchestras such as the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and the Dresden Philharmonic. As a chamber musician, she has performed in ensembles with the likes of Anne-Sophie Mutter, Josef Suk, Ana Chumachenco and Peter-Lukas Graf.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirjam_Tschopp
http://www.mirjamtschopp.com/

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