Fazil Say

In four short movements following each other 'attacca', the Turkish composer and pianist Faz?l Say humorously describes an everyday scene in an Anatolian village: Alevi fathers drinking raki at a well...

Faz?l Say's 'Four Cities' Sonata can be considered as a journey through four cities of Anatolia. This work has taken its inspiration from Faz?l Say's memories and events of his life. Bodrum is well kn...

Only two years after composing his three-movement Cello Sonata in 1919, Paul Hindemith undertook a comprehensive revision of the work. Abandoning the two outer movements, he created a new version base...

Der Finalsatz der Sonate A-Dur KV 331 von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, das Rondo Alla Turca, ist eines der bekanntesten Klavierstücke überhaupt. Einstmals allen Musikkennern vorbehalten, später von jedem...

Der Finalsatz der Sonate A-Dur KV 331 von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, das Rondo Alla Turca, ist eines der bekanntesten Klavierstücke überhaupt. Einstmals allen Musikkennern vorbehalten, später von jedem...

Il titolo di questo concerto per clarinetto si riferisce al poeta, filosofo, matematico e astronomo persiano Omar Khayyam, vissuto nell'XI secolo e uno dei più importanti studiosi dell'epoca. Il conce...

La Sonata (2012) - come la Sonata per Vc e Pianoforte dello stesso anno - racconta di viaggi attraverso la Turchia: Pamukkale, Istanbul Nocturne, Cappadocia. Musicalmente si caratterizza nello stile S...

My Violin Concerto consists of four movements whose inspiration is loosely connected with Scheherazade's One Thousand and One Nights. The first movement is set inside the harem; a variety of women fro...

In his Violin Sonata, the internationally renowned Turkish pianist Faz?l Say combines the classical western form with folk music elements of his home country, spiced with jazz-like intensified rhythms...

Überraschende Klangwendungen bestimmen Fazil Says Kadenzen zu Beethovens Violinkonzert. Vertrackt-virtuose türkische Rhythmen werden abgelöst von idyllischen, an Panflöte erinnernde Sektionen mit frei...

This work by 17-year-old Fazil Say is from the early creative period of the Turkish composer. Supported by Aribert Reimann and David Levine, he composed the four pieces for the 750th anniversary of th...

Noten für tiefe Singstimme und Klavier. Text von Nâzım Hikmet Deutsche Textfassung von Andreas Krause Englische Textfassung von Zelma Millard, Französische Textfassung von Dominique de Montaignac

The concert piece 'Nirvana Burning' was commissioned by the Salzburg Festival and premiered by Faz?l Say and the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra at the festival opening in August 2010. It cons...

The four-movement piano sonata is the second part of a three-part cycle: a compositional reflection of the civil war-like events in Istanbul's Gezi Park in the spring of 2013, of the slogans filling t...

After his spectacular cadenza of Beethoven's Concerto in C minor (contained in ED 20140), the well-known Turkish pianist and composer now presents cadenzas of two of the most popular concertos by Moza...

The Turkish pianist and composer Faz?l Say has from the age of six begun each day with the performance of a keyboard work by Bach; his concert programmes include both numerous original compositions an...

An evocative cycle from the early years of the Turkish pianist and composer which appears again and again in his piano recital programmes.

An evocative cycle from the early years of the Turkish pianist and composer which appears again and again in his piano recital programmes.

This is a highly virtuosic piano piece with alternating metres and miniature rhythmic elements which are abstract representations of traditional Turkish rhythms.

I devote one movement of this work to each of the two figures. I have interpreted Nietzsche's character as energetic, painful and harsh. In contrast, the second movement 'Wagner' with its calm and med...

Faz?l Say composed this Cadenza on Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 as early as 2001. Meanwhile, this early work by the Turkish composer and pianist has become part of the repertoire of international...