Say Plays Say

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. This is the first time I have assembled these pieces, some well-known, some not so familiar, together in one album. -- Fazil Say Detailed track-list: . Ses, op.40b -2012- . Kumru, op.12/2 -2001- . Black earth (Kara toprak), op.8 -1997- . Nazim, op.12/1 -2005- . Sevenlere dair, op.12/3 -2002- . Bodrum, op.41b -2012- . Paganini jazz, op.5c -1995- . Alla turca jazz, op.5b -1993- . Yeni bir gülnihal, op.5e -1998- . Four dances of Nasreddin Hodja, op.1 -1990-: Devr-i Turan Devr-i Hindî Bektasi Raksani Sarki Devri Revâni Velvelesi . Fantasy Pieces, op.2 -1993-: Vision Elegy of Old Istanbul A Dervish in Manhattan Gypsy Girl . Nietzsche und Wagner, op.49 -2013-: I . Nietzsche II . Wagner Fazil Say PIANO