subject: Mehmet Okonsar Regarding To The Problem Of Classical Music Today [print this page] I am no music writer yet I can say this makes me real happy. Playing the piano since early childhood, I kept it as a private occupation.
The composer, conductor and musicologist as well as pianist, Okonsar plays Liszt's Fantasie and Fugue on B.A.C.H. and 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 poise are really well employed throughout the CD: Liszt-Modern. In addition to that, the tone in each piece shows how far piano and keyboard technique has gone.
All selections are extremely difficult pieces to record finely. The playing is actually noteworthy.
Okonsar calls the album "Liszt-Modern" and describes, inside his own editorial, that he considers Franz Liszt as a "modern" composer "all via."
I do not know if there are typically to be notes like these written by the artist himself in the recent CD's.
I am afraid it is not wise for the companies to employ so much what one may call their staff pianists.
Nonetheless, Okonsar is really a self-published performer and he seems totally decided to draw on that freedom to the maximum extend.
The right man for each job is worth getting, as well as we ought to demand him. A bit of players record better than others inside distinctive compositions. Some, as we well know, are usually all-right within a lot of romantic music yet boorish throughout classics. Quite a few shine within the Hungarian legend virtuoso Franz Liszt yet fizzle within Mozart or Beethoven.
The Turkish born Belgian pianist, Okonsar's line is simply subtlety and intelligence. There is hardly any more inside those Liszt pieces than it is revealed in this recording.
Mehmet Okonsar's reading is undoubtedly not obvious neither ordinary. Every one of the qualities and brilliance associated with these pieces are really uncovered.
Mehmet Okonsar pushes out a note here and there yet never without sufficient reason. He has got the finest poise throughout any mid-age generation of living pianists.
The Belgian pianist from Istanbul, Okonsar's rubato is always very capable as well as never conventional. There is, in fact, a great deal of pleasure in his tone, though several bar-bell notes intervene among pure strings throughout this recording.
The key points in having a wide dynamic range at the piano 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 capabilities.
Piano, like every musical instrument has limits and a careless pianist with enough hand power may try to go beyond that limit. 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 definitely an artist whose prominence as a pianist has long been unquestioned since his victorious advent on the international stage in the early eighties, but his position as a composer as well as conductor has been step by step raising and has now achieved alluring quantity.
Mehmet Okonsar is unquestionably recognised among the list of most critical musicians of his generation. He is commonly acknowledged as a respected interpreter of the works of Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart and Schubert.
Since winning the sixth prize at the prestigious Gina Bachauer Competition (1991) Mr. Okonsar has frequently performed as soloist and recitalist in the musical capitals and key festivals of Europe and also the United States.