World Première: Fazil Say's VARIATIONS at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival

Fazil Say
Variationen
("Variations")
for two pianos and percussion (2010)
Commissioned by the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
15’

Thema. Andantino - Variation I. Prestissimo - Variation II. Allegro Energico - Variation III. Lento "Elegia" - Finale

• 4 Aug 2011 · Flensburg (D)
Deutsches Haus
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival 2011
Ferhan und Ferzan Önder Piano Duo
Martin Grubinger, percussion

Further performances: 5 August Neumünster, 19 October Cologne

Two pianos and percussion – at first glance possibly an exotic combination, but a whole series of wellknown arrangements of even more well-known compositions have been created for this instrumentation, which lends itself particularly well to intensely rhythmic 20th Century works with folk elements such as Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana and Igor Strawinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps.

And it is these works which feature in the same programme as the World Première of Fazil Say’s Variationen at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. Say’s new work is an ideal companion piece for these modern classics, with its distinctive rhythms over an ascending bass line, its driving power and reminiscences of Arabian folk music.

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