The Particular World Of The Fugue Form: Bach's Supreme Art Of Fugue Recorded By Mehmet Okonsar

Dec. 7, 2011 - PRLog -- The actual work is carried out with an exquisite organ made on Baroque organ concepts.

Mehmet Okonsar set the tracks in a way that the Fugues, performed on organ, are in groupings by genres i.e. "simple fugues", "rhythmical variations", "inverted fugues" and so on; and he interjected in between them the various canons that he played on harpsichord.

The sound associated with the actual organ is always clean and does not obscure the contrapuntal lines played with highest detail along with purity.

The CD features the totality of the pieces of the BWV 1080. Many of those recordings are available as video clips on the artists Youtube(r) channel: mokonsar.

All pieces can be auditioned at Okonsar's homepage: http://www.okonsar.com/Recordings.html .

Mehmet Okonsar performed, among others, with the following orchestras: Utah Symphony, Antwerp Philharmonic, Poznan Philharmonic and Lublin Philharmonic. A few of the conductors he played with conductors: Joseph Silverstein, Charles Dutoit, Sylvain Cambreling, Ingo Metzmacher, Christof Escher. In recital Okonsar been seen in at London's Royal Opera House, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Kyoto, Bruxelles, Antwerp, Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Rotterdam, Rome, Athens, Calgary, Salt Lake City, Ljubljana.

He has recently been a guest judge at the National Piano Competition of Japan within the auspices of the P.T.N.A. ("Piano Teachers National Association").

Aside from his global concert career he is a productive author. Okonsar is an independent musician and performer, owner of the classical music and also musicology specialized blog-site:"inventor-musicae" along with the first classical-music video portal: classicalvideos.net. His complete biography with details can be read here: http://www.okonsar.com/pianist-biography.html#long-bio

His repertoire encompasses a variety from the early seventeenth. century ("The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book") together with amongst others Orlando Gibbons and Giles Farnaby and also reaches late 20.th century with all the works by Karlheinz Stockhausen as well as Witold Lutoslawski. Important works in this repertoire are: J.S. Bach "The Art of Fugue" performed on organ (or piano) as well as harpsichord; the Goldberg Variations, the integrale of Well-tempered Keyboard.Mehmet Okonsar has an amazing discography, all titles internationally distributed. By J.S.Bach, Goldberg Variations; The Well-Tempered Klavier (complete in 3 CD set); The Art of Fugue (performed on organ and harpsichord) and The Musical Offering (performed on electronic instruments). An engaging collection of solo piano, free style improvisations is "Shadowy Arcade", a CD composed with pieces having stirring titles, in Okonsar's individual, personal musical style which is not necessarily unlike some very modern jazz improvisation styles.

For additional information or a sample copy please contact:
Mehmet Okonsar, mehmet@okonsar.com

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Mehmet Okonsar is a Belgian pianist, composer, conductor and musicologist. He studied at the Brussels Conserv. and at the Istanbul Techn. Univ. with J. Cl. Vanden Eynden and Alexis Weissenberg for the piano and Madame Jacqueline Fontyn for composition.