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This month: FAZIL SAY Pianist/Composer

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Çocuklar İçin (For Children)

Fazil Say (piano) et al

ADA Müzik (2016)

There are thousands of works by 20th-century Turkish composers – for piano, for orchestra and chamber music – and nobody knows them, nobody plays them and there were almost no digital recordings. I thought to myself that I have to do it, for my country and for these composers.

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