Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas Fazil Say

• 1 I. Andante grazioso 14:12
• 2 II. Menuetto - Trio 06:18
• 3 III. Alla Turca - Allegretto 03:24
• 4 I. Allegro con spirito 07:41
• 5 II. Andante cantabile con espressionne 08:05
• 6 III. Presto 03:13
• 7 I. Allegro moderato 09:23
• 8 II. Andante Cantabile 07:01
• 9 III. Allegretto 07:44
• 10 I. Allegro 04:12
• 11 II. Andante 06:09
• 12 III. Rondo - Allegretto 01:30
• 13 I. Allegro con spirito 08:19
• 14 II. Andante un poco adagio 05:14
• 15 III. Rondo - Allegretto grazioso 06:05
• 16 I. Allegro 06:35
• 17 II. Andante 07:33
• 18 III. Allegro 04:48
• 19 I. Allegro 09:08
• 20 II. Adagio 03:56
• 21 III. Allegro assai 10:01
• 22 I. Allegro assai 06:23
• 23 II. Adagio 07:35
• 24 III. Presto 04:23
• 25 I. Allegro 10:25
• 26 II. Andante 12:14
• 27 III. Rondo - Allegretto 06:22
• 28 I. Allegro 05:01
• 29 II. Adagio 04:51
• 30 III. Allegretto 04:31
• 31 I. Allegro 07:36
• 32 II. Rondeau en Polonaise - Andante 05:22
• 33 III. Tema con 12 Variazioni 16:59
• 34 I. Allegro con spirito 06:33
• 35 II. Andante con espressionne 05:24
• 36 III. Rondeau - Allegro 06:00
• 37 I. Allegro 10:08
• 38 II. Andante cantabile 10:18
• 39 III. Allegretto grazioso 06:06
• 40 I. Allegro 06:32
• 41 II. Andante amoroso 05:43
• 42 III. Rondeau 04:42
• 43 I. Allegro 07:56
• 44 II. Adagio 07:03
• 45 III. Allegretto 03:33
• 46 Fantasia in C Minor, K. 475 10:23
• 47 I. Molto allegro 09:17
• 48 II. Adagio 06:07
• 49 III. Allegro 05:22
• 50 I. Adagio 06:28
• 51 II. Menuetto I-II 03:41
• 52 III. Allegro 03:17
• 53 I. Allegro 05:19
• 54 II. Andante 06:09
• 55 III. Presto 06:08
• Total Runtime 06:14:22

Info for Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas

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.

'You absolutely must hear him, this boy plays like a devil.” (Aribert Reimann to David Levine)

Fazil Say, piano

Fazil Say
When the German composer Aribert Reimann discovered the 16-year-old Fazıl Say’s fast-developing artistry on a trip to the latter’s hometown of Ankara, Turkey, he exclaimed to the American pianist David Levine: “You absolutely must hear him – this boy plays like a devil.” Say had his first piano lessons from Mithat Fenmen, who had himself studied with Alfred Cortot in Paris. Perhaps sensing how talented his pupil was, Fenmen asked the boy to improvise every day on themes to do with his daily life before going on to complete his essential piano exercises and studies. This contact with free creative processes and forms is seen as the source of the immense improvisatory talent and the aesthetic outlook that have made Fazıl Say the pianist and composer he is today.

From 1987 onwards, Fazıl Say fine-tuned his skills as a classical pianist with David Levine, first at the Musikhochschule Robert Schumann in Düsseldorf and later in Berlin. This formed the aesthetic basis for his Mozart and Schubert interpretations, in particular, leading to victory at the Young Concert Artists International competition in New York in 1994. Since then he has played with all of the renowned American and European orchestras and numerous leading conductors, building up a multifaceted repertoire ranging from Bach, through the Viennese Classics (Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven) and the Romantics, right up to contemporary music, including his own piano compositions.

He has been commissioned to write music for, among others, the Salzburg Festival, the WDR, the Dortmund Konzerthaus and the Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern festivals. His work includes compositions for solo keyboard and chamber music, as well as solo concertos and large-scale orchestral works, such as the 2011 Clarinet Concerto for Sabine Meyer inspired by the life and work of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam.

Say is a passionate advocate of music as a path to social change, in his native Turkey and beyond. “I strongly believe that art and music will form a bridge between Western and Eastern cultures, blending and transforming these cultures,” he stated in a speech for the 38th Congress of the International Federation of Human Rights in Istanbul, 2013.

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