Fazil Say

Summertime Variations is the third arrangement I have made of Gershwin's Summertime - and the first for solo piano. It begins and ends very quietly and cantabile with a meditation on the well-known op...

The Troy Sonata, the main work of the new Warner CD Faz?l Say plays Say, will shape the world tour programme of Say in the Beethoven Year 2020 in combination with the Hammerklavier Sonata. A powerful...

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

Ses, the last part of the semi-staged work of the same name, is based on the moving poem Sivas Acisi concerning the arson attack on the Madimak Hotel in Sivas in 1993. Available here in an edition for...

Black Earth was inspired by Kara Toprak, a popular song in Turkey. The composer of the song, As?k Veysel (1891-1973), was one of the last great Turkish balladeers and the final link in a thousand-year...

This effective encore piece was written for the piano duo Lucas & Arthur Jussen. Virtuoso scales and percussive inside-piano effects put the gloomy and aggressive tonal world of the piano to the extre...

Faz?l Say, to whom the International Beethoven Prize for Human Rights was awarded in 2016, reflects on the events in Istanbul in May / June 2013 in his cycle Gezi Park. Gezi Park 3, first composed as...

Yürüyen Kösk zeichnet eine bekannte Episode nach, die Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, den Gründer der modernen Türkei, als fortschrittlichen Naturfreund zeigt: Zur Rettung einer Platane ließ er 1930 ein Haus u...

The final movement of the Sonata in A major KV 331 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Rondo Alla Turca, is one of the most famous piano pieces of all time. Once only familiar to musical experts, later a...

La New Life Sonata del compositore e pianista Fazil Say è un'opera di speranza che descrive il processo in cui le tracce della pandemia di Corona, che ha colpito il mondo intero e ha portato la vita a...