This album of piano trios by four Turkish composers, the first in a series, covers three generations of composers whose music combines traditional rhythms and modalities with established Western classical sonorities. Hasan Ferid Alnar (1906-1978) represents the ‘Turkish Five’ collective, his style drawing on the monophonic textures and rhythmic cycles of traditional makam music, while Ferit Tüzün’s (1929-1977) lyrical and fervent Piano Trio hints at folk melodies rather than using them as concrete material. İlhan Baran (1934-2016) described his spellbinding Transformations as ‘a kind of atmospheric state of mind’, and from the younger generation, Oğuzhan Balcı’s (b. 1977) Piano Trio no.1 expresses a tranquillity reminiscent of the Anatolian soul.

- Özgecan Günöz (violin)

- Çağlayan Çetin (cello)

- Özgür Ünaldı (piano)