subject: "liszt-modern" A Cd Release Which Features Liszt As A "modern" Composer [print this page] The Turkish born Belgian artist Mehmet Okonsar plays Liszt's "Fantasie and Fugue on B.A.C.H." and also "Two Legends" in his recent Disc: Liszt-Modern, self-produced at LMO-Records and released throughout amazon.com(r) and its associates.
His delicacy and even poise are well employed inside every one of the works featured in the disc: Liszt-Modern; as well as the tone inside each piece shows how far keyboard technique is bound to have gone.
Virtually all selections are extremely difficult pieces to record finely. The fading of notes that is required to be sustained may be the piano's fault, even magnified through the release, not the player's.
The playing happens to be noteworthy. I can hardly imagine a richer tone, as well as this is certainly one of the best piano recordings available regarding the sound quality.
Relating to the CD, Okonsar plays many "modern" pieces by Liszt and even he describes, throughout his own editorial that he considers Franz Liszt as a "modern" composer.
I am afraid it is really not wise with regard to the major record companies to employ so much what one may call their "staff pianists." Nevertheless, Okonsar is really a self-published musician and performer and he seems perfectly decided to use that freedom to the maximum extend.
The right man for the purpose of each job is certainly worth getting, and even we ought to demand him. A bit of players record better than others inside distinct styles; some, as we well know, are typically all right throughout the majority of romantic music, yet poor within classics; some shine inside Beethoven as well as fizzle throughout Mozart.
Pianist, composer, conductor and musicologist Mehmet Okonsar's line is definitely subtlety and also intelligence. There is actually a lot more throughout those Liszt pieces than might be assumed from their slight and thin appearance at first hearing.
Pianist, composer, conductor and musicologist Mehmet Okonsar's reading of those pieces is definitely not obvious neither ordinary.
Every one of the qualities and brilliance of those pieces are typically showcased. Mehmet Okonsar pushes out a note here and there but never without sufficient reason. He seems to have the finest poise inside any mid-age generation of living pianists.
Okonsar's rubato is in fact continually very efficient and also never conventional. There is certainly a massive deal of pleasure within his tone, though a bit of bar-bell notes intervene amongst the pure strings inside this CD.
The key points in having a wide dynamic range is a deep and full "pianissimo" which "projects" far into the concert hall as well as a full "fortissimo" which does not attempt to go beyond the instrument's sound capabilities.
Piano, like every musical instrument, has limits and a careless pianist with enough hand power may try to go beyond those. It happens often with talented students and it results, if not for a broken string, for at least an unpleasant, dry and harsh sound.
The Belgian pianist of Turkish origins Okonsar, is without question, a musician whose prominence as a pianist has become unquestioned ever since his triumphal arrival on the international world in early 1980s. However his standing as a composer in addition to conductor happens to be slowly but surely increasing and has currently gained respectable quantity.
Mehmet Okonsar is unquestionably steadily recognised among essential musicians of his generation and is greatly referred to as a respected interpreter of the works of Chopin, Bach, Mozart and Liszt.
Since winning the sixth prize at the prestigious Gina Bachauer Competition (1991) Mr. Okonsar has regularly performed as soloist and recitalist in the musical capitals and major festivals of Europe and also the United States.
