2011 Thyestes The Invasion Two Step Passing 2009 Concerto for Orcestra, Turkish Instruments and Voices Far Variations Requiem for Mehmet 2008 Dreamlines Road to Memphis 2007 Nihavent Longa Music for a Lost Earth Partita in E 2006 last night, in Istanbul... Hammers and Whistlers Gloria (Everywhere) Ataturk'un Gunes Ulkesi Temple II 2005 Symphony No. 5 Galatasaray 2004 Strange Stone Sheherazade Alive Requiem Without Words > önceki MKG Variations (cello version) (1999) First Performance July 1999 Steven Ross Sommerfest, Minnesota Orchestra Minneapolis, MN Instrumentation cello Duration 11' Listen MKG Variations Program Notes MKG Variations for cello is commissioned by Marlene Guzman. The work takes advantage of the sonorous qualities of the open strings on the cello. The piece stems out of a spiritual impulse. The first idea, an idea of calm yet anticipatory stasis, acts as a theme which is then varied in a string of variations. The variations range from a passionate expression of the theme to a percussive one; from an angry one to an extremely delicate one; from one that is somewhat Bach-like to one that is fleeting, but frozen in time; to one that is more raw and unforgiving. The work closes with a final presentation of the original theme, dissolving into silence, where it once originated from.