Ahmed Adnan Saygun - Cello concerto op. 74, 1987 sheet + audio

DONATE to help two composers achieve their dreams! https://gofund.me/5f1d1a9d Your support means everything! Tim Hugh, cello Bilkent Symphony Orchestra cond. by Howard Griffiths 00:00 I 10:21 II 16:58 III The Times called him "the grand old man of Turkish music, who was to his country what Jean Sibelius is to Finland, what Manuel de Falla is to Spain, and what Béla Bartók is to Hungary".[1] Saygun was growing up in Turkey he witnessed radical changes in his country’s politics and culture as the reforms of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had replaced the Ottoman Empire—which had ruled for nearly 600 years—with a new secular republic based on Western models and traditions. As Atatürk had created a new cultural identity for his people and newly founded nation, Saygun found his role in developing what Atatürk had begun. subscribe for more cello videos