One Recital Release From The Multi-faceted Music Artist Okonsar
The Gina Bachauer International Piano competition
, performed every four years (intended for the "seniors" kind) in Salt Lake City, Utah, is unquestionably among very best in the world.
There are various elements outstanding to this distinct competition which in turn renders it so excellent. One vitally important among them is the fact that typically the selections performed through the competitors are really free choice. Different from a lot of alternative piano competitions we really do not have here traditional demands for example "one prelude fugue by J. S. Bach" or maybe "(a selection of) Etudes from F. Chopin". All those requires are definitely pertinent for the purpose of Conservatory checks or possibly school concerts but yet at this point we have a nice genuine exhibition of qualified music artists who definitely are supposed to have by now draw their particular means inside the international music field.
The composer, conductor and musicologist as well as pianist Okonsar has got already been one those laureates who constructed a key impact and jumped towards the international stage by the the means of this competition. Particular performances from your diverse rounds of the event are published inside a Compact disc launch which is examined here.
The program of the CD (tracks) are: Alexander Scriabin, Sonata N.9 op.68 "Black Mass"; Gabriel Faure, Nocturne N.6 in D flat Major op.63; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fantasy in D minor K.397; Jean-Philippe Rameau Selections from harpsichord pieces; Franz Liszt Dante Sonata and "Funerailles".
The CD release talked over here is a selection from the actual performances of the Turkish born Belgian artist in the several rounds of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, 1991, where he has been awarded the sixth prize.
This distinct piano competition, contrary to a lot of others in the arena, contains an outstanding range of jury members, primarily from executing music artists, not piano instructors. It simultaneously provides the competitors a great special possibility to freely identify their programs. This permits each individual musician to present whatever they believe is their particular very best.
The technique on the keyboard by Mehmet Okonsar is especially fine-shaped. This is, not surprisingly, the exact result of a life-long training, putting throughout use of the perfect technical precepts the multi-faceted music artist Okonsar obtained coming from his illustrious tutors. There's no unclear or mannered motions. Almost everything acts towards a exactly set musical objective.
There isn't unwanted touch at the hands of Okonsar. Every last step is just prepared for to achieve the key inside a manner to stimulate the mechanics driving it for the purpose of the desired sound. Hands and fingers are calm as well as they stretch out almost at eyesight. The Turkish born Belgian pianist's fingers never mimic a playing "apparatus" you can just about watch the extension and even the astounding flexibility.
The truly amazing Hungarian composer, Franz Liszt is without a doubt quite often just talked about for a brilliant piano virtuoso and also being the composer who written completely just for that instrument. It is rather inappropriate to do so, because Liszt has also been profoundly productive within the orchestral niche, simply being the particular inventor of the symphonic poem, which was to achieve perfection along with Richard Strauss. Liszt furthermore composed a pair of programme symphonies: 'Faust' after Goethe and also Dante following the wonderful Italian poet's terrific work.
Following a variety of extremely cautious interpretations which has been circulated on records in recent times I had just about unconsidered just what a amazingly remarkable work the particular Dante Sonata is. That is probably the most fulfilling performances of the Dante Sonata I already know.
A enchanting, dazzling rate and even perfection characterizes the particular "Lisztian" octaves. On the other hand, they are not dried out nor mechanized. In The Turkish born Belgian pianist's playing the a great number of "flashy" groups of octaves which in turn are commonly accomplished as upheavals of a machine-gun, develop into orchestral in sound. This is just because that Okonsar requires any additional hard work to execute them almost legato and they sound similar to the Violins One as well as Two of an orchestral ensemble. Sets of chords in addition, put on a legato and even orchestral sound. The multi-faceted music artist Okonsar generates that by way of carrying them nearly as much as one can do, as opposed to several pianists who strike them and abandon for the pedal to improve the sound. The influence of Weissenberg's playing is apparent there. Hands are pretty much "sliding" over the keyboard they do not heighten and attack.
Mozart's D minor Fantasy, K.397 presented inside this unique recital album is undoubtedly the most unusual track.This piece happens to be accomplished very slow. More or less "a la Glenn Gould", the main melody develops here a very unique fascination. A few listeners might say "really intimate" but I suspect this is simply absolutely fascinating an interpretation of that unique piece.
No matter how surprisingly odd the actual performance is, one gets the healthy sensation that almost everything here is in fact imagined about within each individual aspects and even as soon as the first impact is finished and the piece gets to its finish, it will become visible the fact that the musician and performer, as always, thoroughly created each individual details of the particular performance.
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)has been a Russian composer and also pianist who created the first color keyboard as well as notation for the purpose of lighting and even hues founded upon his scale associated with "Synesthetic" shades.
His symphony "Prometheus: The Poem of Fire" (1910) was basically the initial output in historical past that incorporated notation with regard to lighting in addition to colouring materials.
Scriabin's large-scale public appearances throughout Moscow in addition to New York happened to be the first live shows ever together with equipment and lighting and colors competed using a coloration keyboard as well as projected to the particular tempo and chords connected with his musical works, hence preceding modern-day rock live shows.
This particular version of the so-called "Black Mass" sonata, number 9 op.68 from Alexander Scriabin is simply among the most extraordinary ones.
Truth be told there is such a selection of highlights in addition to colors within this particular playing. The true substance of Scriabin's musical work comes out along with a effective sense of structural continuity.
The trills are typically precisely what they must turn out to be: visionary shaking sounds as well as the most demanding climax is simply performed together with greatest exactitude.
Music works was basically an enduring passion through Gabriel Faure's (1845-1924) lifespan. Throughout the Franco-Prussian Conflict, Faure offered improvised recitals to his friends while housed throughout departed from buildings just outside of Paris. In 1877, together with the help of this kind of influential friends as Gounod as well as Saint-Saens, Faure had on a choir-master situation at the famous Madeleine of Paris where the affluent in addition to notorious clustered for the purpose of services. He had been requested with setting up the particular compositions in addition to leading the actual choir. Due to the fact there were definitely no women musicians and singers allowed at that time period, alto and also soprano parts were actually sang from Something like 20 kids who ended up so unpleasant that Faure called them his particular "geese".
Any voice comes out obviously still they don't "compete" together with one another. The pianist and composer Okonsar treats nearly every polyphony as a harmonious pair of voices created as well as built for being heard jointly and he concentration on their own complementarity rather than their particular power structure.
Franz Liszt for Mehmet Okonsar is not a juvenile passion for pianistic exuberance and keyboard "pyro-technie". The education Okonsar acquired at the Brussels Royal Conservatory, coming from Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, who himself received through Eduardo del Pueyo is in reality a direct heir of the Hungarian master. That derives from the work of Marie Jaell, a pupil of Liszt on that every one of the technique of Eduardo del Pueyo is definitely based mostly.
The piano studies of Okonsar finished with all the greatest honors any student can certainly ever get at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. "Premier Prix avec Distinction", performing the "Dante Sonata" by Liszt and then "Diplome Superieur de Piano Avec la plus Grande Distinction, Premier Nomme", in 1986, performing the Piano Concerto Op. 42 by Arnold Schoenberg.
At the end of his piano studies, Okonsar had the opportunity of working with one of the biggest composers of Belgium: Madame Jacqueline Fontyn. He additionally studied with a scholar of Messiaen, Claude Ballif. In 1989 he will get his certifications in Composition-Orchestration from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Brussels.
"Operating from Turkey is not extremely hard in our days" affirms the pianist.
It holds true that he's specially at ease using the computers and has a very effective profile on the Internet.
Okonsar is extremely active from Turkey where he performs, practice, create and also writes. He runs a CD company and a publishing house.
His genuine jumping board had been in Utah, the 6th prize at the "Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition", 1991.
The "Academie des Arts Contemporains" of Enghien, Belgium rewarded him in 1991, for his acoustic and electronic compositions with the Gold and Bronze medals respectively.
The Turkish born Belgian artist is actually a good adept of the main "Free Music" philosophy. Every one of his releases are really shared through the main independently owned composer. This is a good uplifting attitude that, according to the composer is going to be of astounding profit to both the particular artist, the entire launch combined with the particular classical music world.
Moreover the primary video site Youtube(r) carries a quantity of the Belgian artist Mehmet Okonsar's playing media. Normally his Compact disk releases are simultaneously published as live performance video clips into the artist's Youtube(r) channel: mokonsar.
by: Todd H. Allen
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