Tag: Fazil Say

  • PROGRAM NOTES: JAMAL ALIYEV AND FAZIL SAY

    PROGRAM NOTES: JAMAL ALIYEV AND FAZIL SAY

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    Franz Schubert Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano  D. 821 Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata was composed in 1824 but only published in 1871—long after the composer’s death in 1828, and almost as long after the principal instrument for which it was written fell out of favour. The six-stringed arpeggione was a kind of large…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: LUCAS & ARTHUR JUSSEN

    PROGRAM NOTES: LUCAS & ARTHUR JUSSEN

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    Johann Sebastian Bach Three Chorale Preludes  (arr. György Kurtág) The chorale, a hymn setting of pious verse in simple note values, was a central element in Lutheran liturgical practice, whether sung in unison by the congregation, in four-part harmony by the choir in a cantata, or artfully arranged into a web of contrapuntal lines on…