Andermatt Music: Fazıl Say in Concert

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Fazıl Say has been touching audiences with his pianistic skills for decades. The concerts: captivating, exciting, inspiring. He is accompanied by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. About the program: The relationship between music and politics is a complex topic: for politics can not only be expressed explicitly through language, but can also be concealed in (instrumental) music. At the same time, 'neutral' music can be politicized by external influences. Fazıl Say, who is at the center of the concert, is a musician through and through, but never loses sight of life and society: "Politics is not like a PlayStation that you can simply switch on and off. It is always part of our lives. That's why we have to speak out." And he does: as an articulate musician, as a critic of social grievances in his home country of Turkey, as a liberal and cosmopolitan free spirit who sometimes causes offense. Say's compositions are characterized by a unique tonal language that incorporates Turkish and other cultural backgrounds into the Western musical tradition. For "Leopards", he was inspired by a safari trip. And if you listen closely, you can also hear political statements in his compositions - here implicitly, by musically thematizing the protection of nature. Dmitri Shostakovich was also a master of inscribing political messages into music - involuntarily: under the Stalin regime, he was repeatedly the victim of attempts at intimidation. His compositions from the 1930s to 1950s can almost be read as a musical column on the political events of the time. Shostakovich's music is characterized by palpable tension - a sense of grave seriousness and tragedy that can tip over into the absurd at any time. The best example of this is his 2nd Piano Concerto, which Fazıl Say will play on Whit Sunday in Andermatt. The second movement is a deeply melancholic, almost romantic piece - in complete contrast to the outer movements, which are more reminiscent of a mixture of carnival and cavalry. How much irony lies behind this often remains uncertain. The Whitsun concert with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra will also feature Shostakovich's equally tense Chamber Symphony for Strings in C minor. Fazıl Say will provide a colorful contrast with Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 12. The concert will open with Frank Martin's "Pavane couleur du temps" for string orchestra. Program: Frank Martin "Pavane couleur du temps" for string orchestra Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 12 in A major KV 414 Fazıl Say "Leopards" op. 103 Dmitri Shostakovich Chamber Symphony for string instruments in C minor op. 110a Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F major op. 102 Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.