Okonsar, Mehmet To Start On New Concept Album: Bach-Toccatas

ISTANBUL - March 26, 2013 - PRLog -- The independent Belgian pianist, born in Istanbul Mehmet Okonsar (LMO-Records) has finally stated the release of his approaching recording: The Seven Toccatas for Keyboard.

The release, which is his 10th solo studio album, has been planned for distribution previously but nevertheless Okonsar reported the upgrading of his personal studio took more time than predicted.

LMO-Records, conceptualized by Lale and Mehmet Okonsar is currently getting an imposing catalog.

"I possess perpetually been a stellar admirer of the works of J.S. Bach" Mehmet Okonsar told on a lot of instances. "The music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) did spoke to me since my beginnings."

The good news did not stop here though, as Okonsar declared that he's setting up numerous more publications to come. The publication is planned to cast a brand new light into the works of J.S. Bach, specially the selections to be found here.

The tracks are available for free auditioning at the artist's personal web site: okonsar.com.

The CD tracks are:
Toccata N.1 in D min. BWV 913
Toccata N.2 in E min. BWV 914
Toccata N.3 in F-sharp min. BWV 910
Toccata N.4 in G min. BWV 915
Toccata N.5 in D maj. BWV 912
Toccata N.6 in C min. BWV 911
Toccata N.7 in G maj. BWV 916

The publication is marketed throughout the world by amazon.com(r) and its affiliates. Virtually all key mp3 suppliers also carry the compositions.

Johann Sebastian Bach gives here free hasten to his musical creativeness. The Toccatas represent for us a dependable testimony of what possess made the Leipzig Cantor improvising on keyboards generally a considerable success.

The seven Toccatas by Bach, Johann Sebastian date between 1708 and 1710. All are early musical works, a lot of of those may even be authored earlier. We include here a youthful Bach, primarily interested in exploring the possibilities of virtuoso keyboard performing.

All musical works pursue an virtually identical constitutional planning: "free-virtuoso-improvisatory" beginning ("a la Chromatic Fantasy") then an alternation of lively fugatos and strikingly glorious slow parts. Those unhurried parts come each time with audacious harmonic progressions. They invariably surprise us with the scope of the musical creative imagination in regards to them. Level often where exactly they seem to extend "too much" in length, they must be seen as "transcriptions" of the endless musical ingenuity and skill of Bach, Johann Sebastian improvising.

Mehmet Okonsar stands out as the First Prize Winner at the International Young Virtuosos Competition, Antwerp, Belgium, 1982 and he is laureate of various other important worldwide piano contests for example, the Gina Bachauer, Sixth Prize, Salt Lake City-UT, 1991 and J. S. Bach, Second Prize, Paris, France 1989.

He is graduated from the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music. His extensive discography contains a particular number of compositions by J. S. Bach, Liszt and Schumann.

Being a musicologist, author as well as lecturer, Okonsar's writings are published in various music periodics. His essays as well as analyses are issued in English and French, he is moreover a lecturer about music, composing along with technology.


Even though having began his schooling at Ankara, at the National Conservatory of this town founded by Paul Hindemith, he regularly stated that most his "real" musical instruction was provided in Belgium.

Even at his primary public appearance in 1979, the particular eclecticism associated with his recital programs ahead might be found. He offered a collection of the Preludes by Messiaen among others.At the finish of his piano studies, Okonsar received the benefit of working together with most significant composers of Belgium: Madame Jacqueline Fontyn. He as well studied with a scholar of Messiaen, Claude Ballif. In 1989 he gets his degrees in Composition-Orchestration from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Brussels.

An initial prize at the International Young Virtuoses Competition of Antwerp in 1982 seemed to be the start of his global career.

His out-of-the-ordinary programs brought the premiere in Turkey of the Concerto for piano by Schoenberg and he is another great admirer as well as performer of Lutoslawski.