Fazıl Say and Patricia Kopatchinskaja began performing together as an electrifying violinpiano duo in 2004. Four years later they released a CD of works by Béla Bartók, Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurice Ravel and Fazıl Say himself, exhibiting a kindred radicalism. It was an exciting time for the pair: the album was Kopatchinskaja’s first as an established soloist and, while they were making it, Say was composing his First Violin Concerto on a commission from the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra.

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