Ahmet Adnan Saygun - String Quartet No. 1 (Score Video)

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: unknowncompose...
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: • Ahmet Adnan Saygun - S... (2nd quartet) and • Ahmet Adnan Saygun - S... (3rd quartet).

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If you enjoyed this score video, do check out my video of Saygun's viola concerto, one of my favorite in the genre: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6nRf5Vqg5xobM0 I plan to post score videos of his symphonies soon as well!

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Thanks! Looking forward to the symphonies!

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