In this recital, violinist Bahar Büyükgönenç and pianist Tutu Aydınoğlu – both of whom have worked with the Cemal Reşit Rey Symphony Orchestra in the past – are to perform works by Zoltán Kodály (his 1905 Adagio for Violin and Piano); Johannes Brahms (Sonata No 3 in D minor for violin and piano, a four-movement work written between 1886 and 1888); Manuel de Falla (Suite populaire espagnole – a kaleidoscope of pieces from 1914, each reflecting the folk music of one of the regions of Spain); Robert Schumann (his 1851 Sonata No 1 in A minor for violin and piano, with its ‘passionate and driven’ opening to the first movement); and the Azeri composer Fikret Amirov (selections from his 1979 Four Pieces for Violin and Piano). Fikret Amirov (1922-84), born in Ganja, Azerbaijan, studied at the Baku Music Academy, where his teachers were Boris Zeidman and Uzeyir Hajibeyov – this latter being a composer, musicologist and teacher who is known as ‘the father of Azerbaijani classical music’.
Issue 66, December 2023
Turkey’s Centenary Issue
