World Première: Fazil Say's Clarinet Concerto KHAYYAM at Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival

Fazil Say
Khayyam
Concerto for clarinet and orchestra (2011)
Commissioned by the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
32’

I Allegro - II Andantino - Allegretto - III Andante

• 16 Jul 2011 · Kiel (D)
Schloss
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival 2011
Sabine Meyer, clarinet
Bilkent Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Isin Metin

Further performance: 17 July 2011 Lübeck

In the wake of concertos for violin and trumpet, Fazil Say has now composed his first solo concerto for clarinet for Sabine Meyer. The title of the work refers to the Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyam who lived during the eleventh century and was one of the greatest scholars of his time.

The threemovement clarinet concerto depicts stages and themes associated with his life: childhood and adolescence, scholarship, religious criticism and additionally his love for his wife which Khayyam expressed with exceptional frankness in his poetry.

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