Summertime Variations - Piano Solo

Summertime Variations is the third arrangement Fazil Say has made of Gershwin's Summertime - and the first for solo piano. It begins and ends very quietly and cantabile with a meditation on the well-known opening motif. The complete melody then forms the basis for the swinging and extremely virtuoso Presto Variations of the central section. The work was composed as a concert piece for Say's classical solo recitals, but it is also played as an encore in his regular performances in jazz festivals such as in Montreux.