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Cihar Askin in Denmark
Cihat Askin is creating "Turkish Violin Team" for Keshet Eilon 2008
Latest News
- Cihat Askin's October 2009 bulletin
- Cihat Askin & Kamran Ince perform "the ambiant Music Project"
- Askin is giving a masterclass in Pittsburg University
- "Istanbulin" in Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall (18 Jan '08)...
- Cihat Askin's new album "Istanbulin" reliazed...
- Kreutzer Etudes on CD...
Dear Friends,
As the world comes across with so many difficulties, we should be thankful for being a part of our country. I believe that any problem could be solved by wit, knowledge and skill. As long as we appreciate what earth offers us, we will be able to preserve the peace among brotherhood. This is the way to enlighten the secrets of the art of living in harmony. On our way, we might stumble and fall, but taking on responsibility is what we need to recover. I wish the new year will come along with luminous effects that shall bring peace and happiness to you, and so to the world.
Cihat Askin
Victor Carr Jr.'s Akses comment; Necil Kâzim Akses'(1908-99) Violin Concerto (1969) is probably unlike any you've ever heard. Its thunderous opening, an angry theme consisting of repeated half-tone modulations around an insistent F tonic, sounds more like music for a disaster movie than a concerto. The violin enters in an agitated state, its delicate tone doing little to dispel the music's accumulated tension, though Akses does allow for moments of introspection in this sprawling, 26-minute first movement. As it progresses, the music's fundamentally romantic nature becomes more apparent--romanticism in a Korngold film score vein that is--even though the harmonic language is much closer to Bartok's. After an extended and wrenching cadenza, the second movement follows attacca with a calm and contemplative adagio theme that provides a much needed respite from the struggle just endured. This is briefly interrupted by a built-in scherzo (marked Vivo) that delightfully incorporates Turkish dance elements...
CAKA (Cihat Askin and Little Friends) Project
Cihat Askin and Little Friends (CAKA) project will be starting violin masterclasses on 5th April in Istanbul Tehcnical University Conservatory of Turkish Music. If you want to be on CAKA project please contact with us from infaskin@gmail.com .