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Next to his horrific, effects-mongering 2005 Beethoven release (type Q9410 in Search Reviews), Fazil Say mostly behaves himself with Haydn. The five sonatas included here
A friend of mine once likened a particularly metronomic performance of Beethoven’s Appassionata to a man being pursued by hornets. I don’t know who’s pursuing
The proficiency and high polish characterizing these Mozart concerto performances creates a chilly, uninviting aura. Part of the problem stems from sonics whose reverberant ambience
In Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, Fazil Say’s brittle, steel-edged engraving of the notes suggests little of Martha Argerich’s long-limbed ferocity or Van Cliburn’s tonal differentiation.
Ever since Michael Tilson Thomas and Ralph Grierson made the first recording of Stravinsky’s four-hand reduction of The Rite of Spring in 1967 for EMI,
Whatever virtues Fazil Say might bring to Bach or Mozart, this release demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is way out of
