Black Earth
composer: Fazil Say
musical motifs: Asik Veysel
(Kara Toprak)
Dedication: in memory of Asik Veysel
Instrumentation: piano
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 6' 0''
Year of composition: 1997
12 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-001-14655-5
Order number: ED 20138
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Description:
Veysel went blind during childhood following an attack of smallpox. He subsequently began to learn to play the Saz, a Turkish lute, and to study poetry, initially for his own amusement. He made acquaintance with a variety of folk poets, and, after 1928, also travelled from village to village with his songs. Through the years, he became a cultural symbol of the Turkish Republic.
In the song Kara Toprak, Veysel describes loneliness and loss. All that remains is the Black Earth, the colour of the landscape in his native town of Sivas.
Fazil Say imitates the sound of the Saz through his selection of a muted effect in the Introduction and Epilogue of Black Earth - a meditation on the themes of a ballad. In contrast, folklore, Romantic piano style and jazz are entwined in the central sections to form a large-scale outburst. Fazil Say performs this works in both concerts of classical music and a jazz festivals: particularly in the folkloristic sections, he employs the improvisatory freedom which is inherent to both folk music and jazz.
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Awards:
2008 | Cannes Lion
2008, Prize in Bronce for the ad "Musik im Blut" (Konzerthaus Dortmund), Concept: Jung von Matt/Elbe | Animation: Sehsucht
2008 | ADC Wettbewerb
2008, Prize in Gold for the ad "Musik im Blut" (Konzerthaus Dortmund), Concept: Jung von Matt/Elbe | Animation: Sehsucht additional information
2007 | London International Award
2007, Prize in Silver for the ad "Musik im Blut" (Konzerthaus Dortmund), Concept: Jung von Matt/Elbe | Animation: Sehsucht additional information
2008 | Clio Award
2008, Prize in Silver for the ad "Musik im Blut" (Konzerthaus Dortmund), Concept: Jung von Matt/Elbe | Animation: Sehsucht
Recordings:
Alla Turca (2008)
Fazil Say- Black Earth
- Alla Turca Jazz
- Paganini Jazz
- Nazim
- Silk Road
- Beethoven: Sonate f-Moll "Appassionata"
- + J.S. Bach
Fazil Say (piano) · Sertab Erener (vocals) · various artists · A Film by Gösta Courkamp (Menu + Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Turkish)
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