This Time the Dream's on Me

Dreyer. Gaido discovered the Uyghur band Qetiq in 2010 in a bar in Urumqi, the capital of the independent Uyghur province Xinjiang in northwest China. Some of Qetiq's songs are their own compositions, but there are also transcriptions of traditional Kazakh and Uyghur music, such as Dolan Muqam, music from the deserts of Xinjiang, which dates back centuries.

This production of Britten's most important song cycles for guitar and voice is released on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Britten wrote all these works for his longtime partner, Peter Pears, and the exceptionally talented guitarist Julian Bream. The works are heard here in a superb interpretation on this recording.

Volume 17 of the Friedhelm Dohl Edition, one of the most substantial editions of a living German composer, presents some of his latest works for violin and cello. "Looking back after 75 years: my composing and my life are 'in ever-increasing circles', remember, start off, dismantle the past, change it into something new."

The Oratory presented here consists of three main and one intermediate part, amounting to a collage with a coherent meaning. The first part consists of five sections, in which Yunus Emre discovers the love for life, yet falls into thinking about death, starts wondering about the afterlife, and finally recoils from his fate and suffers. The second part, again with five sections, depicts his rebellion against god, followed by Emre seeking refuge with god. In the intermediate part, his love for god takes contours. In the final part, made of two sections, Emre enters a union with god and finds eternal peace. Death becomes the beginning of being with god. In his Oratory, Saygun created an oeuvre to reflect his own ideas through the poems of Yunus Emre. By slightly adapting, shortening or repositioning the poems, he created a libretto of sorts. And indeed, Saygun wrote himself and his life experience into most of his works. There is no doubt that from the view of his personal advancement as composer, the Yunus Emre Oratory constitutes a major turning point. After years of introspection, his engagement with Yunus Emre and the Oratory led to a rediscovery of his music both in Turkey and abroad. In this discovery, his ideas and spiritual world took center-stage. His ode to humanity was noticed. After this, Saygun impregnated his following works with fervor and enthusiasm, characteristics, which he had held back due to his initial humility and dark days during World War II. Despite setbacks and personal attacks, he kept his peace and patience.

Strauss: An Alpine Symphony - Ciurlionis: Miske

Friedhelm Dohl Edition, Vol. 7

Friedhelm Dohl Edition, Vol. 6

The Contemporary Voice of Turkish Music

EASTERN VOICES

Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra - Ligeti: Atmospheres - Moz

Herbstempfindungen: Lieder aus dem Schaffensjahr 1850

… wie ein Cherub aus den Wolken - Hommage an Bettine von Arn

Friedhelm Dohl Edition, Vol. 1

Brahms: Sinfonien Nr. 3 & 4