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 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...
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...
In 2011, the International Violin Competition 'Henri Marteau' for the first time commissioned a composer to write the compulsory piece for the competition. This composer was Faz?l Say who forms a mean...
Not many encore pieces exist for piano duet. These two, by Fazil Say, are in his unmistakable style. A very effective and romantic winter morning in Istanbul!
Eingebettet in atmosphärische Beschreibungen der quirligen Ägäis-Metropole finden sich mit türkischem Kolorit angereicherte Porträts von Chopin, Brahms und Rachmaninow: alle drei Hommage-Sätze zitiere...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 last movement Bodrum from the sonata Dört Sehir (Four Cities) is a fast, swinging walk through the popular entertainment district of Bodrum. Available here in a single edition for piano.
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...
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...
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...
In his set of five lieder with finale, Faz?l Say sets a selection of contrasting poems from Goethe's cycle West-Eastern Divan in which the poet skilfully intertwines the intellectual Western world wit...
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...
