First Performance
October 23, 2009 Cihat Askin, Amy Salsgiver
Istanbul Modern Music Ensemble
Istanbul, Turkey
Instrumentation
violin, percussion
Duration
22'
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Program Notes
Partita in E is commissioned by Cihat Askin, my friend and one of Turkey's foremost violinists. I wanted to bring together the spiritual qualities of violin's past from purified, deep qualities of Bach, to the percussion's spiritual, raw, percussive qualities with Turkish folk and Ottoman court music, in an obsessive, hypnotic journey.
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