Troy Sonata
Fazil Say plays Say
Fazil Say (piano)
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Contemporary Music
There’s no question that Say puts his ideas across with confidence and communicative immediacy…He really should compose for film.
Troy Sonata
Fazil Say plays Say
Fazil Say (piano)
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Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Contemporary Music
There’s no question that Say puts his ideas across with confidence and communicative immediacy…He really should compose for film.
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The centrepiece of this album of piano works by Fazil 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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Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceMarch 2019
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International Classical Music Awards2019Nominee - Contemporary Music
May 2019
There’s no question that Say puts his ideas across with confidence and communicative immediacy…He really should compose for film.
This ten-movement sonata packs a terrific amount of drama into its forty minutes: the ‘wine-dark’ sea is conjured with Debussy-like sonorities, whilst the depictions of the heroes sound like Game of Thrones scored by Bartók. The vivid portrait of the Trojan Horse itself wouldn’t sound out of place in Mussorgsky’s gallery – definite shades of Bydlo here…
