Sites to publish the release; * All Links: 1. http://pressexposure.com/ 1. http://pr.prlog.org/ 2. http://openpr.com/news/submit.html 3. http://www.i-newswire.com 4. http://express-press-release.net/submit-press-release.php 5. http://www.avangate.com/articles/press-release-distribution.htm 6. http://www.ezpr.org/member/home.php 7. http://www.wiredprnews.com/ 8. http://www.onlineprnews.com/user/home 9. http://www.free-press-release.com/ 10. http://www.pagerelease.com/submit/ 11. http://www.pr9.net/toolkit/submit 12. http://www.pr-inside.com/release_new.htm * The SpeedDial page : Group: Press Releases * The Session: Press releases ------------------------------ PRESS RELEASE ------------------------------ Work: Date: Release Scheduling: ------------------------------- =============================== ------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Mehmet Okonsar, pianist, composer, conductor and musicologist Company Name: LMO-Records Telephone Number: + 90 312 438 0917 Fax Number: + 90 312 442 5723 Email Address: mehmet@okonsar.com Web site address: http://www.okonsar.com TITLE: A "Statement" CD Coming From The Particular Pianist Mehmet Okonsar: "Liszt-Modern" SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: On the bicentenary of Franz Liszt's birth, the Turkish born Belgian pianist, composer, conductor and musicologist Mehmet Okonsar published a new Album "Liszt-Modern". An arresting selection of works by Franz Liszt concentrating on the particular Hungarian composer's most inspiring and "modern day" musical styles. BODY: The actual Album, recorded in Turkey is globally presented through amazon.com(r) and its web marketers. Liszt is among the most revolutionary personalities of the nineteenth century and his affect on piano playing and also on creating for that instrument, is incredibly lingering in our times. Without Liszt, the piano as well as the piano repertoire as we know them at present would be, quite simply, inconceivable. A challenging as well as greatly interesting figure, he strode throughout the music universe just like a colossus and all critical musicians will owe him an immeasurable debt. This specific CD symbolizes Liszt as a "modern" composer. Liszt was probably the most modern piano player of all times, not simply he revolutionized playing the piano but furthermore the actual music language itself. The titles on this CD are not only "late-works by Liszt". The disc attempts to highlight the actual "modern" aspects in the Hungarian master's music through a rather sizable time-span. The initial compositions are the Two Legends and the latest ones are definitely the "Bagatelle Without Tonality" and the "Csardas Macabre" and "Csardas Obstine." The two pieces based on Bach; the "Fantasy and Fugue on the theme B-A-C-H" and the "Variationen uber das Motiv von Bach ("Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen")" are witness to Liszt's serious involvement with organ music and his lifelong connexion with J. S. Bach. Taken in its entirety this specific launch proposes some sort of look at Franz Liszt as one of the most modern figures of the 19th century music. The Tracks: 1 Fantasie und Fuge uber das Thema B-A-C-H 2 Variationen uber das Motiv von Bach ("Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen") 3 Legendes "St. Francois d'Assise: La predication aux oiseaux" 4 Legendes "St. Francois de Paule: Marchant sur les flots" 5 Les Jeux d'Eaux a la Villa d'Este 6 Bagatelle ohne Tonart 7 Csardas Macabre 8 Csardas Obstine All tracks of the CD are available for auditioning at: http://www.okonsar.com/Liszt-Modern.html and video recordings of two of the tracks are in the artists Youtube(r) channel: http://www.youtube.com/mokonsar. Mehmet Okonsar was born in Istanbul (Turkey) and lived in Paris during his initial instruction. He started learning piano at the National Conservatory of Ankara, with Nimet Karatekin and Necil Kazim Akses. Due to the rich resources the Ankara Conservatory then had and also the Mediatheque of the Centre Culturel Francais d'Ankara, he grew up studying the music of Pierre Boulez, Edgar Varese, Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Schaeffer, composers that will have a very powerful affect on him. The artist claimed that his real musical education was given at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. His teachers were: Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden for the piano and Madame Jacqueline Fontyn for composition along with orchestration. He furthermore studied along with a former pupil of Olivier Messiaen: Claude Ballif from the Paris National Conservatory along with the renowned pianist Alexis Weissenberg in Switzerland. His noted concerts included the premiere in Turkey of the Concerto for Piano, op.42 by Schoenberg and his awesome performances of the Concerto for piano by Lutoslawski in Poland. His repertoire includes a selection from the early seventeenth. century ("The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book") including among others Orlando Gibbons and Giles Farnaby and reaches up to late 20.th century with the works by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Witold Lutoslawski. Remarkable works in this particular repertoire are: J.S. Bach "The Art of Fugue" carried out on organ (or piano) and harpsichord; the Goldberg Variations, the integrale of Well-tempered Keyboard. Okonsar has performed recitals displaying the total piano works by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Despite he denies most kind of "musical specialization", his repertoire is seriously on the "modern" side with Igor Stravinsky "Three Movements of Petrouchka" the "Sequenza" for the piano by Luciano Berio and also the Klavierstucke by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Mehmet Okonsar has a striking 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 assortment 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 unlike some very modern jazz improvisation styles. Mehmet Okonsar has a notable discography, just about all titles internationally published. 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 stimulating assortment of solo piano, free style improvisations is "Shadowy Arcade", a CD composed with pieces possessing stirring titles, in Okonsar's very own, personal musical style which is possibly not unlike contemporary modern-jazz styles. 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He studied piano, composition and orchestration at the Brussels Royal Conservatory and musicology at the Istanbul Technical University. His primary teachers were J. Cl. Vanden Eynden and Alexis Weissenberg for the piano and Madame Jacqueline Fontyn for composition. He is laureate of numerous international piano competitions including the Gina Bachauer. Besides his international concertist carrier he is also prolific writer. Okonsar is an independent artist, he runs his own management bureau, his CD label: LMO-Records and his publishing house: "Inventor-Musicae". Actively involved in the World Wide Web, Mehmet Okonsar is the founder of the classical music and musicology dedicated blog-site:"inventor-musicae.com" as well as the first classical-music video portal: "classicalvideos.net". ================================================= LINKS: ------------------------------------------------- Images: http://www.okonsar.com/CDCovers/Liszt-Modern.jpg http://www.okonsar.com/images/HeaderPic-borders.jpg ------------------------------------------------- pdf Release: http://www.okonsar.com/Documents/Liszt-Modern_PressInformationFULL.pdf ------------------------------------------------- Video (Youtube): http://youtu.be/PK5bZ14nrJs ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ================================================= ------------------------------------------------- end