Fazil Say

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 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 Sonata Nueva Vida, del compositor y pianista Fazil Say, es una obra de esperanza que describe el proceso en el que las huellas de la pandemia Corona, que ha afectado a todo el mundo y paralizado la...

Şahmeran es una antigua leyenda anatolia sobre una mujer serpiente, su amor por un ser humano y la traición de éste. La reducción para piano de esta obra de concierto está pensada como ayuda al estudi...

Composed by 15-year-old Fazil Say in 1985, the six short pieces are a playful and cheerful examination of the sound effects of new music. Elaborate cluster and pedal techniques on the piano are contra...

Retratos consta de ocho descripciones musicales de importantes personalidades que han dado forma a la cultura, el arte y la literatura en Turquía y han influido decisivamente en la vida y la obra del...

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 concert piece Paganini Jazz by Faz?l Say, which was inspired by classical, modern and jazz styles, is reminiscent of the music of such greats as Scott Joplin, Art Tatum, Gershwin and Bernstein, an...

Two of the European Cultural Capitals in 2010 - Istanbul and the Ruhr area - were united in the personality of the composer and pianist Faz?l Say. He lives in Istanbul and had a five-year residence as...

Como en su Kaz Da?lar? Sonat? (Sonata del monte Ida) (VLB 225) y en Yürüyen Kö?k (La casa desplazada) (ED 22893), Say también quiere llamar la atención sobre la necesidad de proteger los hábitats de l...

Commissioned by the Festival of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Faz?l Say wrote his Trumpet Concerto for Gábor Boldoczki. Written in the classical three-movement concerto form, the work refers directly...

Suite, consisting of six short pieces for alto saxophone and piano, is a virtuoso work for this duo. I composed my Suite in 2014 in commission of the legendary saxophone virtuoso Mr. Sugawa with whom...

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...

The title of the work refers to the Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyam who lived during the eleventh century and was one of the greatest scholars of his time. The thr...

The Sonata (2012) - like the Sonata for Violoncello and Piano from the same year - tells of travels through Turkey: Pamukkale, Istanbul Nocturne, Cappadocia. Musically characterized in the style of Sa...