Saygun - Sym #4 - Ari Rasilainen, Rheinland-Pfalz City Phil (2003) [Philidor; FLAC]

“Saygun’s gift of 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…. If you collect characterful and rewarding contemporary music, you will want this.” – classicstoday.com in a review of a recent recording of Saygun’s Symphony No. 4, Violin Concerto, and Suite Opus 14.

Ahmed Adnan Saygun studied informally but at length with Bartok, when the latter visited Turkey on one of his ethnographic expeditions. They remained good friends until Bartok's death. Saygun's Fourth Symphony is a relatively late work, one that shows the influence of Bartok, Shostakovich and Prokofiev, but not to the point of erasing his very strong, personal stamp. In three movements that structurally resemble a standard 19th century symphony with the finale knocked off, this work has a compelling logic and gripping tension like little else that has been composed in the last 50 years.


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