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Andrejs Osokins, Pianist = Piano works of BACH, HAYDN, BEETHOVEN, RAVEL, LISZT – Andrejs Osokins (p) – International Piano Forum

by Audiophile Audition | Apr 23, 2017 | Classical CD Reviews

Latvian piano virtuoso Andrejs Osokins makes a powerful impression in Romantic Music. Andrejs Osokins, Pianist = BACH: WTC, I: Prelude No. 8 in e-flat minor, BWV 853; Fugue in d-sharp minor, BWV 853; HAYDN: Piano Sonata No. 53 in e minor; BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 23 in f minor, Op. 57 “Appassionata”; RAVEL: Gaspard de la Nuit: Scarbo; LISZT: Annees de perelinage, II: Italy: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca; Apres une lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi fantasia – Andrejs Osokins, piano – International Piano Forum, 75:00 [www.ipf-frankfurt.com] ****: Latvian pianist Andrejs Osokins (b. 1984) presents a program (rec. live 27 November 2015 at Kursaal Bad Cannstatt) that reflects his penchant for introspective, impassioned scores that here traverse the periods from the Baroque to the late Romantic. The Bach prelude – and its enharmonic fugue – set the tone for plaintive, arioso melancholy that will often reveal itself in other composers’ sensibilities. The resonant bass of Osokins’ Bechstein instrument enunciates low, chromatic threads of the Fugue in d-sharp, whose voices enter and lie upon each other in the manner of a sad motet. Later, the individual notes of the upper voice assume the character of a hopeful chorale. Conceived in the early […]