Fazil Say

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...

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...

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...

In the work commissioned by Mozart-two-6 for the Tanzquartier Wien, Faz?l Say has transported the Viennese composer Mozart to the beach of the ancient city Patara in his own native Turkey. Say has dev...

Fazil Say's Ballads are romantic, meditative piano pieces with cryptic literary and biographical associations. The first ballad Nazim, played exclusively on the white keys, is in memory of the well-kn...

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...

A typical example of the music of Fazil Say, packed with musical motifs by Beethoven. Great fun for both violin and piano players and a delightful encore!

Singer Serenad Ba?can and Faz?l Say recorded ten songs on texts by the most famous Turkish poets for the CD album ?lk ?ark?lar (First Songs) in 2013. In these early compositions, Say lays the foundati...