Dear friends,
This year, again, I am very glad to present you with my
newsletter-booklet/CD "inventor-musicæ", 2017, featuring my
publications of 2016.
The booklet is intended to be a yearly publication, summarizing
information about selected publications (CD, DVD etc.) I released
during the year.
I plan this publication to be informative and worth keeping. It is not
intended to be just a "Newsletter" but, rather, a step towards further
productive discussion which may start online by connecting with me on
several social networks.
Needles to say, this is a very individual endeavor. Just like all my
productions. I am a free, unbound, independent artist. I take all the
hassle and risks for anything I publish.
I also affiliate totally with the "free music", "free software", "free
cultural work" definitions and precepts. Here "free" means "freedom",
not necessarily "gratis".
Let me expand somewhat about this. I believe everybody should be able
to listen to my music, whether they are able and willing to pay for it
or not. Then some will, hopefully, enjoy it and, if they really enjoy,
they would want it going on (i.e. me publishing more) so they would
feel the urge to support my creations by buying my CD's and DVD's and
printed music scores. This is the reason I post on the Net all tracks
of all my CD's to free audition, furthermore they are also on sale at
various CD and mp3 stores.
The same for my compositions. They are available at IMSLP (http://imslp.org), Petrucci Music Library, they are also on sale.
The past year, I started the recording of the complete piano sonatas by
Beethoven. There are times, in an artist's life, when one feels that
"the time has come" for some work(s). Embarking "into the 32 Sonatas by
Beethoven" was motivated by such a feeling. A similar conviction led me
record the complete Sonatas by Mozart in the past year.
After years of playing, teaching, thinking about them an unifying
vision emerges. Even with such a large and diversified corpus as huge
as the 32 Sonatas, there is one fundamental idea: the journey of one
genius man throughout his entire life.
Amazing and unsuspected things surface when working with the 32
Sonatas. Similitudes, expansion of some fundamental ideas, a sense of
direction in life, philosophy and music. In the past year (2016) I
finished the recording of the first four volumes, featuring Sonatas
number one to fourteen. All published as audio CD's and video DVD's
(both Pal and Ntsc).
Always impressed and inspired by the Japanese culture and arts, my
composition: "Haikus" for cello solo and percussion was composed for
and premiered by Nickolai Kolarov (cello) and Fernando Meza
(percussion) in the twelfth "Balkanicus Contemporary Music Festival" in
Minneapolis.
2016 was also the year I did finish my first Symphony: "Eikhah"
(Lamentations). Actually a Symphonic Poem, a project started some 3
years before. I planned it to be gigantic in its "vertical" (i.e.
number of instruments used) and "horizontal" (i.e. sheer duration). A
near 300 pages music score, available at the usual stores but also
offered as watermarked "free" copies at imslp.org, together with an
audio CD made with my "semi-virtual" orchestra: inventor-musicæ where
recordings of a number of "real" instruments are combined and mixed in
my studio with some others (unfortunately) unavailable to me in the
"real" world.
Finally, it was the conclusion of a contemporary music project I
nourished for few years: Boulez and Xenakis, selected piano works.
Four "landmark" pieces of the twentieth century piano music has been
recorded in this album. Pieces I see as of utmost importance in the
music of our time.
I hope you will enjoy reading, browsing or at least glancing through
this booklet. As always I would be happy to connect with you and get
your feedback.
Contents: (articles about...)
Click on a title to go to the specific page
for the recording
Okonşar: Haikus
Haikus, duo for cello solo and percussion attempts to bring into the
musical world the particular aesthetics of the Haiku.. Music score
release.
L. van Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas. Volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4
Okonşar: Eikhah (Lamentations) Poeme Symphonique en cinq mouvements
The composition is not descriptive, however the general "tone" of the poems which constitute "Eikhah" reflect on every movement.
It is not a Symphony in the traditional meaning because it does not fit
in the sonata form: two opposing and complementary themes or ideas.
Rather it is a Symphonic Poem without "programme", where each movement
is inspired from the poems of the book "Lamentations" (Eikhah).
Boulez & Xenakis:
Pierre Boulez: Piano Sonata N.2 (1948); "Incises" for piano (version 2001)
Iannis Xenakis: "Herma" for piano (1961); "Evryali" for piano (1973)
Previously released CD and DVD's