A Turk in America
Münir Beken (ud), Laura Falzon (flute), Ayşegül Durakoğlu (piano), Emily Ondracek-Peterson (violin), Adrian Daurov (cello)
Like fellow Turk Kamran İnce, Beken works his Turkish heritage into almost everything that he composes—everything that I have heard, anyway—and yet his music is cosmopolitan and not simply “ethnic.”...
A Turk in America
Münir Beken (ud), Laura Falzon (flute), Ayşegül Durakoğlu (piano), Emily Ondracek-Peterson (violin), Adrian Daurov (cello)
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Like fellow Turk Kamran İnce, Beken works his Turkish heritage into almost everything that he composes—everything that I have heard, anyway—and yet his music is cosmopolitan and not simply “ethnic.”...
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Contents and tracklist
- Münir Beken (ud)
- ISSA Sonus Ensemble
- Laura Falzon (flute), Ayşegül Durakoğlu (piano)
- Emily Ondracek-Peterson (violin), Adrian Daurov (cello)
- Ayşegül Durakoğlu (piano)
- ISSA Sonus Ensemble
Awards and reviews
March/April 2020
Like fellow Turk Kamran İnce, Beken works his Turkish heritage into almost everything that he composes—everything that I have heard, anyway—and yet his music is cosmopolitan and not simply “ethnic.” It speaks a language that is consonant, with dissonance used as a means to an expressive end, not as an end in itself.
