To Anatolia: Selections from the Turkish Five <br> Beyza Yazgan, piano <br> BRIDGE 9549"To Anatolia" is Turkish American pianist Beyza Yazgan's passionately played collection of Turkish classical piano repertoire from a group of composers known as The Turkish Five (Cemal Reit Rey (1904 1985), Ferid Alnar (1906 1978), Ulvi Cemal Erkin (1906 1972), Adnan Saygun (1907 1991), and Necil Kazm Akses (1908 1999). The music was composed between 1931 1976 with most of the pieces inspired by Anatolian folksongs, stories, dances, dirges, and

which opens this disc

The measured unfolding of the material

"A small milestone in the history of American chamber music

Flashbacks (1995)

Stefan Solyom

he has forged his own path

The Celestial Thrush (23:17)

and passages that stretch to the very edge of the singers’ compass

3 synthesizes elements from Lieberson’s previous efforts in the form

Parker based this composition on a work of fabulous excess and immorality

denotes a kind of homage to music's ability to change and morph itself in uncanny and unusual ways

quiet introspection