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Layale Chaker - "Sinekem​ā​n", for violin

from This Is America - An Anthology 2020​-​2021 (ICR023) by Johnny Gandelsman

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Sinekemān, commissioned and written for violinist Johnny Gandelsman, is a study on solitude.

As I had wished to depict one's relationship with solitude, the ultimate condition of being faced with incomprehension, and an ongoing flux of moments of self-sufficiency and struggle, lucidity and confusion, power and despair, already depicted by the aloneness of a solo instrument, I wished to embody it by invoking the sinekemān, an Ottoman ancestor of the violin, characterized by its' seven sympathetic strings ; creating a contrast between the wholeness of the sound and the sustained resonance of these strings, and the fragility of the textures of its' gut strings. - Layale Chaker

"Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, where we are least alone;
A truth, which through our being then doth melt,
And purifies from self: it is a tone,
The soul and source of music, which makes known
Eternal harmony, and sheds a charm

Like to the fabled Cytherea’s zone,
Binding all things with beauty;—’t would disarm
The spectre Death, had he substantial power to harm."

- Lord Byron (1788-1824), from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Night and Tempest

"Sinekeman" was generously commissioned by the Portland Chamber Music Festival (Portland, ME)

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from This Is America - An Anthology 2020​-​2021 (ICR023), released July 1, 2022
Johnny Gandelsman, violin

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