Special offer. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Fazil Say (piano)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
Fleet-fingered, ultra-articulated playing from Say, stopping just short of sounding mannered. His own cadenza in the Concerto's first movement builds impressive continuity into the coda.
Special offer. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Fazil Say (piano)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
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Fleet-fingered, ultra-articulated playing from Say, stopping just short of sounding mannered. His own cadenza in the Concerto's first movement builds impressive continuity into the coda.
About
With his extraordinary pianistic talents, Fazil Say has been touching audiences and critics alike for more than 25 years. His outstanding technique very quickly enabled him to master the so-called warhorses of the repertoire with sovereign ease.
Fazil Say has played with all the famous American and European orchestras and numerous leading conductors. In addition, he also appears regularly in chamber music: for many years he performed as a duo with the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, and among his other notable partners is the Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta.
His recordings of works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Gershwin and Stravinsky have been highly praised by the critics and have won several prizes, among them three ECHO Klassik awards. Following several recordings dedicated to his own compositions, Fazil is returning to core classical repertoire, through three works of Beethoven, all in keys of C: the 'Moonlight' and Opus 111 sonatas, as well as the third Piano concerto, with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
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Awards and reviews
June 2014
Fleet-fingered, ultra-articulated playing from Say, stopping just short of sounding mannered. His own cadenza in the Concerto's first movement builds impressive continuity into the coda.
September 2014
[Say is] a talented musician.
11th April 2014
Say and Gianandrea Noseda are hard-hitting radicals when it comes to Beethoven and their recording of the Third Piano Concerto is one of most startling performances on disc...this is very much a forward-looking account, epic in scale, darkly poetic...revealing the work to be very much the equal in scope and intensity of the concertos that followed.
