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Album cover for Fazıl Say: Oiseaux Tristes
Oiseaux Tristes

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Pianist Fazıl Say writes: “Oiseaux tristes brings together works by three prominent French composers… As I was working on the album during the pandemic period, it reflects the mood of that time… (Ravel’s) Miroirs is one of the most comprehensive and interesting works in the piano repertoire. I spent months working on it, and although it’s difficult to play, it also has an extraordinary, powerful quality. Claude Debussy’s Suite bergamasque is one of his most significant piano works. I am delighted to enhance my repertoire with this marvellous four-movement work, written in the composer’s younger years … The other work on the album is François Couperin’s Ordre No. 21 in E minor from his Pièces de clavecin, Livre 4. This was suggested to me by a harpsichordist friend in Istanbul. When I researched the work, I found it to be very different and decided to adapt it for piano.”

Tracklist

Couperin: Pièces de clavecin, Bk 4: 21e ordre in E minor
Debussy: Suite bergamasque
Ravel: Miroirs

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