The duo sonatas on this album were recorded in the Bilkent Concert Hall in Ankara, while the solo viola works were recorded in the North Rhine-Westphalian State Academy of Music in Heek.
Compositional Technique
Necil Kazım Akses, one of the 'Turkish Five' composers, combined Turkish musical traditions with Western European compositional techniques, often incorporating folk elements into his works.
Instruments
Atilla Aldemir performs the duo pieces on this album using a Pellegrino di Zanetto viola from 1560, which was made during Michelangelo's lifetime.
Performer Biography
Itamar Golan, the pianist, was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1970, and his family emigrated to Israel in 1971.
Performer Biography
Atilla Aldemir, the violist on this album, has been the principal violist with the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig since April 2017.
Composition History
César Franck's A major Sonata was written four years before his death as a wedding present for the violin virtuoso Eugène Ysaÿe and his wife.
Composition History
Dmitri Shostakovich's Viola Sonata, Op. 147, was his last completed work, composed in 1975 while he was on his deathbed.
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