Search - Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Ari Rasilainen, Rheinland-Pfalz Staatsphilharmonie :: Ahmed Adnan Saygun: Symphonies 1 & 2

Good music from an underrated Composer

Ryan Morris | Chicago, IL | 03/23/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Symphony's 3 & 5, released on this same label-by the same forces, is a much better starting point for those interested in this ignored composer. This disc is good, not excellent like those symph aforementioned, but after listening to them, if this composer is your cup of tea, by no means wait. His music is like an oriental bartok, infused with a much more authentic eastern european flavour than you will hear elsewhere. Overall, this composer deserves much more attention than he is getting, and CPO should be applauded for this cycle of his music, which will soon be concluding with a survey of his string quartets. For discophiles, there is also a more than adequate release of Saygun's first symphony on the Koch label, though the orchestra is better hear.(Koch: Howard Griffiths-Northern Sinfonia..recorded 1995), though the coupling Saygun's Concerto da Camera op 62 which will not, for some reason, be included in CPO survey, though it is a very good piece."