Fazil Say: Advanced Sheet Music

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...

Inspired by the historical structures submerged beneath the waters of Lake ?znik, this composition by Faz?l Say presents a new narrative space shaped around history, memory, and imagination. ?znik (hi...

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...

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 four-movement piano sonata is the second part of a three-part cycle: a compositional reflection of the civil war-like events in Istanbul's Gezi Park in the spring of 2013, of the slogans filling t...

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 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...

Inspired by the historical structures submerged beneath the waters of Lake İznik, this composition by Fazıl Say presents a new narrative space shaped around history, memory, and imagination. İznik (hi...

Überraschende Klangwendungen bestimmen Fazil Says Kadenzen zu Beethovens Violinkonzert. Vertrackt-virtuose türkische Rhythmen werden abgelöst von idyllischen, an Panflöte erinnernde Sektionen mit frei...

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 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...

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...

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 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...

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.

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...

The distinctive, motor-like rhythm and echoes of Arabian folk music characterise the three variations, rich in contrast, for two pianos and percussion. A perfect addition to the modern classics for th...