Saygun clearly viewed the form from an anti-Romantic perspective with potentially 'colourful' native elements transmuted into a sophisticated, dissonant, increasingly abstract idiom. The composer...

Gramophone Magazine, July 2006

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Saygun - Complete String Quartets

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Saygun clearly viewed the form from an anti-Romantic perspective with potentially 'colourful' native elements transmuted into a sophisticated, dissonant, increasingly abstract idiom. The composer...

Gramophone Magazine, July 2006

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Release date: 3rd Apr 2006
Label: CPO
Catalogue number: 9999232
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes
Genre:
- String Quartets

Contents and tracklist

Saygun: String Quartet No. 1

Work length29:22

Quatuor Danel

I. Allegro moderato

Track length8:35

II. Adagio

Track length9:25

III. Allegretto

Track length3:33

IV. Grave - Allegro assai

Track length7:49

Saygun: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 35

Work length30:36

Quatuor Danel

I. Cupo

Track length10:51

II. Moderato

Track length8:39

III. Allegretto

Track length4:30

IV. Grave

Track length6:36

Saygun: String Quartet No. 3, Op. 43

Work length29:15

Quatuor Danel

I. Grave

Track length15:29

II. Lento

Track length6:54

III. Agitato

Track length6:52

Saygun: String Quartet No. 4

Work length12:40

Quatuor Danel

I. Lento

Track length7:28

II. Animato

Track length5:12

Awards and reviews

July 2006

Saygun clearly viewed the form from an anti-Romantic perspective with potentially 'colourful' native elements transmuted into a sophisticated, dissonant, increasingly abstract idiom. The composer would surely have been delighted by these performances.

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