Pranav Ranjit | Ahmet Adnan Saygun - String Quartet No. 1 (Score Video) @towardthesea_ | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
0:05 I. Allegro moderato
8:37 II. Adagio
18:00 III. Allegretto
21:32 IV. Grave - Allegro assai
Performed by the Quatuor Danel: Marc Danel & Gilles Milet, violins; Tony Nys, viola; Guy Danel, cello
Ahmet Adnan Saygun (1907-1991) was a Turkish composer, the most famous of the "Turkish Five" who combined the Western classical tradition with Turkish folk music. During Saygun's lifetime, his work was widely performed across Turkey, Europe, and North America by leading ensembles like the NBC Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, and Juilliard String Quartet. Read more about Saygun on my blog: unknowncomposers.org/2020/08/15/ahmet-adnan-saygun-a-pioneer-who-brought-together-romanticism-western-modernism-and-turkish-folk-song
Saygun's first string quartet was written in 1947 at the age of 40, when he had already brought together the key elements of his mature style: evocations of Turkish modes (makams) and traditional instruments, influences from modernism similar to those of the composer's good friend Béla Bartók, and a rather intuitive and improvisatory sense of form. An enchanting work throughout, the four-movement quartet - energized, tense and lyrical by turns - is an excellent example of Saygun's quite singular compositional voice.
If you would like to see score videos of Saygun's other two string quartets as well, @invertedninthchord has uploaded them: youtube.com/watch?v=65IOSQDzAY0 (2nd quartet) and youtube.com/watch?v=65IOSQDzAY0 (3rd quartet).
0:05 I. Allegro moderato
8:37 II. Adagio
18:00 III. Allegretto
21:32 IV. Grave - Allegro assai
Performed by the Quatuor Danel: Marc Danel & Gilles Milet, violins; Tony Nys, viola; Guy Danel, cello
Ahmet Adnan Saygun (1907-1991) was a Turkish composer, the most famous of the "Turkish Five" who combined the Western classical tradition with Turkish folk music. During Saygun's lifetime, his work was widely performed across Turkey, Europe, and North America by leading ensembles like the NBC Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, and Juilliard String Quartet. Read more about Saygun on my blog: unknowncomposers.org/2020/08/15/ahmet-adnan-saygun-a-pioneer-who-brought-together-romanticism-western-modernism-and-turkish-folk-song
Saygun's first string quartet was written in 1947 at the age of 40, when he had already brought together the key elements of his mature style: evocations of Turkish modes (makams) and traditional instruments, influences from modernism similar to those of the composer's good friend Béla Bartók, and a rather intuitive and improvisatory sense of form. An enchanting work throughout, the four-movement quartet - energized, tense and lyrical by turns - is an excellent example of Saygun's quite singular compositional voice.
If you would like to see score videos of Saygun's other two string quartets as well, @invertedninthchord has uploaded them: youtube.com/watch?v=65IOSQDzAY0 (2nd quartet) and youtube.com/watch?v=65IOSQDzAY0 (3rd quartet).