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Fazil Say - 1001 Nights in the Harem | Naive V5147

Fazil Say - 1001 Nights in the Harem

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Label: Naive

Cat No: V5147

Barcode: 0822186051474

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 25th May 2009

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Contents

Artists

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
Fazil Say (piano)
Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

John Axelrod

Works

Say, Fazil

Alla Turca Jazz, fantasia on the rondo from Mozart's Piano Sonata in A major, K331
Patara Ballett
Summertime Fantasy
Violin Concerto '1001 Nights in the Harem', op.25

Artists

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
Fazil Say (piano)
Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

John Axelrod

About

1001 Nights in the Harem, commissioned by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, is a violin concerto written for Patricia Kopatchinskaja, with whom Fazıl Say formed a duo in 2006. The title recalls the famous collection of fairytale “One Thousand and One Nights”, and just as Scheherazade is the tireless narrator in that work, so the solo violinist in Fazıl Say’s concerto takes on the role of ‘principal storyteller’. The violin part is written in a highly virtuosic style and is used to hold the work together, since the solo instrument plays a cadenza between the movements, sometimes accompanied by a Turkish percussion instrument. Thus the four movements are linked to one another in intensely atmospheric unity.

As a bonus, the disc includes three encores that Fazil Say performs at his concerts. These three pieces, Alla Turka Jazz, Patara Ballet and Summertime Fantasy have become firm audience favourites. 

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