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Without Borders / Can Cakmur
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Without Borders / Can Cakmur

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Composer
Bela Bartok, George Enescu, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Ahmed Adnan Saygun
Artist
Can Cakmur
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
May 06, 2022
Catalog #
BIS-2630
UPC
7318599926308

About

Towards the end of the 19th century, ´several composers were taking a new interest in folk music. Folk tunes, or imitations of them, had previously mainly been used in order to provide ‘local colour’ or as a way of catering to nationalist sentiments, but it was now seen as a means to revitalize art music itself, opening up for new possibilities in terms of rhythm and harmony as well as melody. At the forefront of this development was Béla Bartók, who also considered the use of folk elements as a tool to transcend boundaries – to achieve a ‘brotherhood of peoples’. For his new recital disc, Can Çakmur has devised a program which juxtaposes four composers’ different responses to folk music. Bartók’s Piano Sonata is followed by Passacaglia, Intermezzo e Fuga with which Dimitri Mitropoulos made a clean break with earlier works in a more nationalistic vein. Next comes Çakmur’s compatriot, the Turkish composer Ahmed Adnan Saygun, who in 1936 accompanied Bartók on a field trip in Turkey collecting music. His Piano Sonata was composed some fifty years later, however, and refers to folk music primarily on a theoretical level. Closing the disc is George Enescu’s Piano Sonata No.?3 in D major, which Çakmur in his own liner notes describes as ‘radiating a natural affinity for the village, without sacrificing the compositional value of the work.’

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro moderato 04:29
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    04:29
    Composer
    Béla Bartók
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  2. 2 II. Sostenuto e pesante 04:47
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Sostenuto e pesante
    Duration
    04:47
    Composer
    Béla Bartók
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  3. 3 III. Allegro molto 03:28
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro molto
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    Béla Bartók
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  4. 4 Passacaglia: Andante 10:05
    Track
    4
    Title
    Passacaglia: Andante
    Duration
    10:05
    Composer
    Dimitri Mitropoulos
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  5. 5 Intermezzo: Allegro 01:23
    Track
    5
    Title
    Intermezzo: Allegro
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    Dimitri Mitropoulos
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  6. 6 Fuga: Andante - Adagio 03:19
    Track
    6
    Title
    Fuga: Andante - Adagio
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Dimitri Mitropoulos
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  7. 7 I. Moderato 06:30
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Moderato
    Duration
    06:30
    Composer
    Ahmet Adnan Saygun
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  8. 8 II. Allegro 03:57
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    03:57
    Composer
    Ahmet Adnan Saygun
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  9. 9 III. Lento 05:34
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Lento
    Duration
    05:34
    Composer
    Ahmet Adnan Saygun
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  10. 10 IV. Allegro 06:12
    Track
    10
    Title
    IV. Allegro
    Duration
    06:12
    Composer
    Ahmet Adnan Saygun
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  11. 11 I. Vivace con brio 05:45
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. Vivace con brio
    Duration
    05:45
    Composer
    George Enescu
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  12. 12 II. Andantino cantabile 08:41
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. Andantino cantabile
    Duration
    08:41
    Composer
    George Enescu
    Performer
    Can Çakmur
  13. 13 III. Allegro con spirito 07:49
    Track
    13
    Title
    III. Allegro con spirito
    Duration
    07:49
    Composer
    George Enescu
    Performer
    Can Çakmur