A variation of Mozart's 'Alla Turca'

[timbo178]

Hello! I recently went to a piano concert, and as an encore the pianist played a variation of Mozart's 'Alla Turca' (from the Sonata K331) and I am wondering if anyone knows who wrote the variation so I can find it. It was a very dramatic piece, very grand, very fast and very exciting (and unfortunately not the one available here on PS). Any help would be great!

Tim

[mephisto]

It is probably Volodos version:

[timbo178]

Yeah, that's the one! Thanks so much. Wouldn't have found it otherwise.

[ihatepop]

Ah, yes, I haven't been brave enough to try that out yet...*shivers*

ihatepop (uhatepop 2 )

[eelco]

Maybe it's Volodos, maybe it's Fazil Say.

[invictious]

I like Fazil's version more.

The volodos is just..meh..

It's neither positive nor negative

[timbo178]

Well, am about halfway through the Volodos' version, slowly making progress and am having fun. How could you not like it invictious!? But of course we all have different tastes. The Fazil version also looks quite interesting and I will give that a go.

[pianistimo]

i'm trying both, too.  many thanks!  hoping that the neighbors will not get angry.  you know - when you play this piece anywhere - there are probably a few that start banging their heads on the walls.

[ihatepop]

Hey, does anyone have a recording of Fazil's version?

ihatepop

[jre58591]

Hey, does anyone have a recording of Fazil's version?

just a video.

[ihatepop]

By the way, I noticed this under the first page.

Copyright 1996 by Fazil Say. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Does that mean anything?

ihatepop

[invictious]

It means we should break it and someone should post one here

[ihatepop]

It means we should break it and someone should post one here

wait till nils comes in here and then it's gone.

ihatepop

[jre58591]

actually both the volodos and say are copyrighted. they should be gone soon.

[eelco]

Hey, does anyone have a recording of Fazil's version?

ihatepop

Just go to YouTube.com and look for Fazil Say .. you'll find some nice video's. :-)

[piano121]

I don´t like booth pieces. I prefer the original, it has only the nescessary amount of notes. All the rest this guys put in are just unnessessary fat imo.