As its title suggests, Fazil Say’s double album Morning and Evening offers mood music – in the form of solo piano pieces – for two contrasting times of day. It unites two collections, Morning Piano and Evening Piano, both recorded in the Mozarteum in Salzburg and originally released digitally, prompting some 60 million streams online.
“When it comes down to it, we are searching for integrity in the music we listen to,” says Fazil Say. “In the morning it takes shape through rhythm and melody, and in the evening through melody and harmony.”
Morning focuses primarily on the Baroque and early Classical periods, with pieces by Scarlatti, C.P.E Bach, Daquin, Mozart and Haydn, but it also embraces later periods with Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Albéniz, and one of Fazil Say’s own compositions, ‘A winter morning in Istanbul’. Evening places the emphasis on the 19th and early 20th centuries with Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Janáček, Satie, Debussy (‘Clair de lune’, of course), Ravel and Granados.
Tracklist
Disc 1
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Keyboard Sonata In B Minor, Wq. 55/3
- Louis-Claude Daquin:
- Domenico Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas F Minor, Kk. 466
- F Major, Kk. 378
- D Minor, Kk. 1
- C Major, Kk. 159
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fantasia In D Minor, K. 397
- Joseph Haydn: Keyboard Sonata In C Major, Hob. Xvi:35 I. Allegro Con Brio
- Ii. Adagio
- Iii. Finale. Allegro
- Frederic Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 20 In C Minor
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Solfeggietto In C Minor, Wq. 117/2
- Johann Sebastian Bach: the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 Bwv 847 I. Prelude
- Ii. Fugue
- Frederic Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 15 In D-Flat Major Raindrop
- Fazil Say: Art of Piano, Op. 66: Iii. Winter Morning In Istanbul
- Claude Debussy: Arabesque No.1, Cd74, L. 66
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: the Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 6, June. Barcarolle
- Isaac Albeniz: Suite Espanola No. 1, Op. 47: V. Asturias Leyenda
Disc 2
- Enrique Granados: 12 Danzas Espanolas: No. 5, Andaluza
- Erik Satie: 6 Gnossiennes: No. 1, Lent
- Gnossienne No.7
- Claude Debussy: Suite Bergamasque: Iii. Clair De Lune
- Frederic Chopin: Nocturne No. 21 In C Minor, Op. Posth.
- Nocturne No. 20 In C-Sharp Minor, Op. Posth.
- Franz Liszt: Standchen, S. 558/9 (After Franz Schubert)
- Johannes Brahms: Intermezzo Op117 No 1
- Franz Liszt: Isoldes Liebestod, S. 447 (After Richard Wagner)
- Maurice Ravel: Sonatine, M. 40 I. Modere
- Ii. Mouvement De Menuet
- Iii. Anime
- Leos Janacek:
- Frederic Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28
- No. 6 In B Minor
- Berceuse In D-Flat Major, Op. 57
- Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 7, Traumerei
Label: Plg | Origin: Holland