Fazil Say

Şahmeran is an old Anatolian legend of a snake woman, her love for a human being and his betrayal. The piano reduction for this concert work is intended as a study aid, but can also be used for class...

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...

Portraits consists of eight musical descriptions of important personalities who have shaped culture, art and literature in Turkey and have had a decisive influence on the composer's life and work. The...

Portraits consists of eight musical descriptions of important personalities who shaped culture, art and literature in Turkey and had a decisive influence on the composer's life and work. The main text...

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...

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...

The duo Middle Eastern Children is a simple and delicate composition that is a kind of song-like essay. It was composed with the innocent people and children affected by endless terror and wars in the...

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...

Like in his Kaz Da?lar? Sonat? (Mount Ida Sonata) (VLB 225) and in Yürüyen Kö?k (The Shifted House) (ED 22893), Say would also like to draw attention to the need to protect the habitats of animals in...

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...

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...