Fazil Say – “Mozart: Requiem – Say: Mozart & Mevlana”

Description

Mozart’s magnificent setting of the Requiem Mass needs no introduction. One of his last works and a landmark of choral music, it is paired on this album with a new and complementary work by the pianist and composer Fazl Say: Mozart ve Mevlana, an homage to Mozart’s Requiem, based on the texts of 13th-century mystic Mevlana Rumi. Introducing Mozart ve Mevlana, Fazl Say says: “Mevlana is a great philosopher from the Eastern world – the Orient. I’m from Turkey. I thought: ‘Why not unite East and West in love and friendship through texts from the great philosopher Mevlana and quotations from the music of a composer of genius like Mozart in a fluid musical space?… I play all Mozart’s works for piano and I have recorded them all. So Mozart plays a very special role in my life… Mozart’s music is the music of humanity. Likewise, Mevlana’s words unite people regardless of their religion or belief.”