Fazil Say – Ulvi Cemal Erkin (Türk Bestecileri Serisi, Vol. 6) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Fazil Say – Ulvi Cemal Erkin (Türk Bestecileri Serisi, Vol. 6) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:26 minutes | 729 MB | Genre: Classical
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Fazıl Say (Turkish: [faːˈzɯɫ saj]; born 14 January 1970 in Ankara) is a Turkish pianist and composer.

Fazıl Say was born in 1970. He was a child prodigy, who was able to do basic arithmetic with 4-digit numbers at the age of two. His father, having found out that he was playing the melody of “Daha Dün Annemizin” (Turkish version of Ah! vous dirai-je, maman) on a makeshift flute with no prior training, enlisted the help of Ali Kemal Kaya, an oboist and family friend. At the age of three, Say started his piano lessons under the tutelage of pianist Mithat Fenmen.
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Fazil Say, Nicolas Altstaedt – 4 Cities (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Fazil Say, Nicolas Altstaedt – 4 Cities (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:35 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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This bracingly eclectic recital opens with Fazıl Say’s Four Cities, a musical celebration of four Turkish locations the composer describes as “full of personal memories”. Originally a BBC commission, it was premiered in June 2012 during the City of London Festival by Nicolas Altstaedt and José Gallardo.
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Fazil Say – Say Plays Say 3 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Fazil Say – Say Plays Say 3 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:58 minutes | 880 MB | Genre: Classical
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Turkish pianist and composer Fazil Say presents a programme of his works, performed by the artist himself!

“The piano pieces you are about to listen to in this CD and which I have been performing throughout my professional career, truly represent a pianists piano music. There are also some vivid allusions to Turkey and Anatolia. In my younger days, I was also extremely fond of composing jazz variations of famous classical works, and we have included a few examples here. Throughout the years, I have always made a point of playing these pieces in my concerts, sometimes as an encore piece, sometimes as part of a themed performance or even as an adaptation. Music connoisseurs who know me also know many of these works. Film-maker and writer Andrei Tarkovsky made an observation which I greatly admire: Art is born out of an ill-designed world. So here are some humble examples as my attempt to explain a life though music.”
– Fazil Say
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Fazıl Say, Friedemann Eichhorn, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Christoph Eschenbach – Fazil Say: Violin Works (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Fazıl Say, Friedemann Eichhorn, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Christoph Eschenbach – Fazil Say: Violin Works (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:26 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Fazıl Say is one of the world’s most prominent pianists but he is also a much-admired composer with a substantial catalogue of works. He combines both these accomplishments in his two Violin Sonatas, the first of which is suffused with Turkish motifs and dances, such as the horon. The Second Sonata takes as its theme the abuse of nature and the need to resist despoliation. His Violin Concerto is subtitled ‘1001 Nights in the Harem’ and is full of rich melodies and atmosphere, and features an array of Turkish percussion instruments.
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Fazil Say – J. S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Fazil Say - J. S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download

Fazil Say – J. S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:15:46 minutes | 701 MB | Genre: Classical
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“My interpretation should convey the unique song, dance, story of each part of the work – that was the bar I set for myself,” says Fazil Say about his new album of Bach’s famous Goldberg Variations, composed 280 years ago to entertain a nobleman in his sleepless nights.

Fazil Say, world-renowned pianist and composer, used the months of the first lockdown to immerse himself fully in the complex work: “The pandemic gave me the space to devote a lot of time to analyzing the work, which is a musical and mathematical masterpiece.”
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Friedemann Eichhorn, Fazil Say – Liebestod (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Friedemann Eichhorn, Fazil Say – Liebestod (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:59 minutes | 995 MB | Genre: Classical
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Friedemann Eichhorn, geboren 1971 in Münster, ist der Kronberg Academy seit dem Jahr 2000 eng verbunden. Als Teilnehmer des ersten Festivals „Chamber Music Connects the World“ musizierte er mit Yuri Bashmet, Eugene Istomin, Gidon Kremer und Boris Pergamenschikow. Einen wichtigen Teil seiner Arbeit widmet Friedemann Eichhorn der Entwicklung von Geigentalenten. Im Jahr 2002 wurde er als einer der jüngsten Violin-Professoren Deutschlands an die Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar berufen, 2006 wurde er zum Direktor des Instituts für Streicher und Harfe gewählt. Darüber hinaus ist er Künstlerischer Leiter des Internationalen Louis-Spohr-Wettbewerbs für Junge Geiger in Weimar. Viele Jahre unterrichtete Friedemann Eichhorn an der Sommerakademie des Mozarteums Salzburg. Seit 2012 ist Friedemann Eichhorn Direktor der Kronberg Academy Studiengänge.

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Fazil Say – Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Fazil Say – Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 06:14:28 minutes | 5,63 GB | Genre: Classical
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With his extraordinary pianistic talents, Turkish pianist Fazıl Say has been touching audiences and critics alike for more than twenty-five years, in a way that has become rare in the increasingly materialistic and elaborately organised classical music world. He is a pianist, composer and director with firm reputation in Europe, Asia and the US. After spending five years under David Levine at the Robert Schumann Institute in Düsseldorf and further studies at the Berlin Conservatory he came to international attention 1994 when he was the winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Since then he has become a regular guest artist with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic, the Baltimore Symphony, the St Petersburg Philharmonic , the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, and the Orchestre National de France.

This release sees him return to Mozart, a composer with whom he has a great affinity, and a recording of his complete piano sonatas. The sonatas here are grouped by key, revealing Mozart’s unique approach to tonality.

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Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazıl Say – Janáček – Brahms – Bartók (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazıl Say – Janáček – Brahms – Bartók (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:16 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
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This new recording marks the reformation of the legendary duo of Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazil Say. The Moldovan violinist says the Turkish pianist ‘is a volcano, with an indomitable strength and energy’, while he emphasises the ‘freedom’ that her ‘spontaneous playing’ exudes: ‘At each concert, she creates a different character and tells a new story.’ The explosive duo presents a programme devoted to Bartók’s Violin Sonata no.1 (‘a marvel from start to finish, one of his finest works’, says Patkop), Brahms’s D minor Sonata (‘I imagine a feather in flight at the opening of the sonata’) and Janáček’s Sonata, ‘an extreme work, wounded and heart-rending’.

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Fazil Say – Troy Sonata – Fazil Say Plays Say (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Fazil Say – Troy Sonata – Fazil Say Plays Say (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:25 minutes | 917 MB | Genre: Classical
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The centrepiece of this album of piano works by Fazıl Say is his Troy Sonata. Say gave its premiere in August 2018 in the Turkish city of Çanakkale, near the historical site of Troy itself. “There are not many purely musical works on the subject of Troy,” explains Say, “so I have endeavoured to express all the dramatic features of this magical legend through the language of music.” As the Turkish magazine Andante wrote, the 10-movement sonata “is composed around a structure just as epic as its subject”.

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Fazil Say – Debussy: Préludes, Book 1 – Satie: 3 Gymnopédies & 6 Gnossiennes (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Fazil Say – Debussy: Préludes, Book 1 – Satie: 3 Gymnopédies & 6 Gnossiennes (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:48 minutes | 999 MB | Genre: Classical
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Perhaps because their piano music was so different, Satie and Debussy were close friends from the time of the Gymnopédies onwards and whereas Satie’s titles here look back to ancient Greek civilisation, Debussy derived the individual preludes in his first collection from more contemporary literature, art or nature. But, like Satie, he wanted to make them look different in publication and placed their titles at the end, although he must have realised that once played, their titles would never be forgotten.

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Fazil Say – Chopin: Nocturnes (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Fazil Say – Chopin: Nocturnes (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:20 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
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Fazil Say, who made his debut on this label with a very, very well-received work on Mozart’s Complete Piano Sonatas, is now turning his attention to Chopin, but a more confidential side of Chopin, much less virtuoso, the Chopin Nocturnes, the almost complete work of which he recorded in the Mozarteum Salzburg in March 2016. An “almost complete work” because the Nocturne in C-Sharp minor Op. 71/1 is missing, most likely due to CD running time restrictions as the total exceeded the limit by just a handful of seconds… Regardless the interpretation is dazzling and almost symphonic, taking these Nocturnes out of the hyper-romantic state of torpor they are so frequently plunged in by musicians. In addition to Chopin’s music, a few of Say’s short-lived grunts can also be heard who, much like Gould (albeit to a lesser extent), sometimes enjoys humming in the background

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Fazil Say – Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Fazil Say – Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 10:04:57 minutes | 8,58 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Beethoven was my idol and my mentor”

“I began this project in May 2017. At the time I had only ever played 14 of Beethoven’s sonatas, so I had 18 more to learn from scratch. 2020 is Beethoven’s 250th anniversary, and I aimed to complete the project by that date.

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Fazil Say – Hayat Ağacı (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Fazil Say – Hayat Ağacı (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:01 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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Zorlu Performing Arts Center (PSM), 10. he announced the program of his new season, in which he celebrated his age, with a press conference yesterday. In addition to Zorlu PSM General Manager Filiz Ova, Fazıl Say, who will open the new season of Zorlu PSM this evening, and cellist Jamal Aliyev, who will accompany him, and media artist Refik Anadol also attended the meeting. The “Tree of Life” suite, which Say composed for cello and piano on the order of Zorlu PSM, will also have its premiere with this concert.

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