Archive
May 1, 2019
Morning & Evening
Music suited to the joyous simplicity of morning and the melancholy of evening… "In 2019, I began to think about making concept albums. Of all the ideas I developed, one of the most potent was that of collating works that we would like to listen to...
May 1, 2019
Oiseaux Tristes: Couperin, Debussy, Ravel
Fazıl Say’s new album of French keyboard music takes its name – Oiseaux tristes (Sad birds) – from a movement of Maurice Ravel’s suite Miroirs. Additionally Debussy’s Suite bergamasque which of course contains the gently luminous ‘Clair de lune’. Closing the album is a set...
May 1, 2019
Mozart: Requiem – Say: Mozart ve Mevlana
Mozart’s magnificent setting of the Requiem Mass needs no introduction. One of his last works and a landmark of choral music, it is paired on this album with a new and complementary work by the pianist and composer Fazıl Say: Mozart ve Mevlana. Founded on...
May 1, 2019
Berg & Schubert: Piano sonatas
Fazıl Say brings together two, highly contrasted Viennese piano sonatas, composed at either end of the Romantic era. Conceived on an epic scale in four movements, Schubert’s Sonata in B flat major, D 960 was written shortly before his death in 1828, while in 1909...