A New Pipe Organ And Harpsichord Cd By Mehmet Okonsar: The Great Contrapuntal Work By J. S. Bach; "Die Kunst Der Fuge" BWV 1080

Online, August 9, 2011 (Newswire.com) - The work is carried out over a delightful organ built on Baroque organ designs.

Mehmet Okonsar positioned the tracks order of the CD in a way that the actual Fugues are in groupings by styles i.e. "simple fugues", "rhythmical variations", "inverted fugues" and so forth then he interjected in between the many canons that he played on harpsichord.

The sound of the organ remains very clear and does not obscure the contrapuntal lines which are made along with maximum preciseness in addition to clearness.

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, a Belgian pianist, composer, conductor as well as musicologist was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He studied piano, composition as well as orchestration in the Brussels Royal Conservatory and musicology with the Istanbul Technical University. His key educators were J. Cl. Vanden Eynden in addition to Alexis Weissenberg for the piano and Madame Jacqueline Fontyn for composition. He is laureate of a lot of international piano competitions such as the Gina Bachauer.

In addition to his worldwide concert carrier he is a productive blogger. Okonsar is an independent performer, originator of the classical music and also musicology devoted blog-site:"inventor-musicae" in addition to the first classical-music video portal: classicalvideos.net. His total biography together with facts can be read here: http://www.okonsar.com/pianist-biography.html#long-bio

Mehmet Okonsar has a superb discography, all titles globally 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 engaging assortment of solo piano, free style improvisations is "Shadowy Arcade", a CD composed with pieces possessing stirring titles, in Okonsar's own, personal musical style which is not unlike contemporary modern-jazz styles.

For additional information or a sample copy please contact:
Mehmet Okonsar, [email protected]
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