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World Premiere of Fazıl Say's Mother Earth by the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra and Simone Menezes with the Composer as Soloist

May. 30, 2025

The world premiere of Fazıl Say's piano concerto, Mother Earth, took place at the Osaka Symphony Hall in Osaka, Japan on May 23 during the World Expo. Simone Menezes conducted the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra with the composer as soloist. The concert was commissioned by Cartier and performed as part of the inauguration of the Cartier Women's Pavillion. 

Fazıl Say has composed a dramatic wake-up call in the fight to avoid a climate crisis with his seven-movement piano concerto titled Mother Earth. In the Prelude (I), the solo piano voices this call in the form of a principal theme which runs through the entire work. The movements II, III, V and VI describe nature, its destruction and its destructive force: earthquakes and landslides (II Earth), life in the forest, animal sounds and forest fires (III Forest) and the life-sustaining power of water alongside drought and flooding (V Sea and VI River). In the Interlude (IV) and Postlude (VII), Say incorporates highly symbolic quotations from his work of lamentation for solo piano Black Earth (2007).


Black Earth/Fazil Say

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Fazıl Say
Mother Earth (2024)
piano concerto
pic.2.2.2.2.cbn-4.2.2.1-timp-3perc-str(14.10.10.8.6)
30'
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