Forster plays & records Beethoven's 32 Sonatas in "Magnificent Obsession"

This is what the Argentine pianist, Sebastian Forster feels while playing his cycle of 32 Sonatas that will be recorded during the next18 months.

The first 3 are already recorded, “Volume I”, and the four pairs of CD’s will make history.

Sebastian thinks that after concluding this project he will be feeling like climbing the Andes Mountains in the Patagonia.

Sebastian is a real and unique "Beethovenian" and shows his talent and strength in every strophe, building the most deep and strong Beethoven of this generation.

He is a poet, a real romantic, one of the “last Mohican” of this century.

Sebastian Forster, with all the Beethoven experience he has on his shoulders, will be a different person when this project ends.

If you listen carefully, you will feel that your soul is highly elevated and risen above convention during the playing of each note.

Soon you will experience the possibility of listening Forster live, and I guess that will reveal the real and true story of this magnificent and overpowering program that only a few can create.

Forster’s intensity is so strong that creates an atmosphere of some tension without loosing his outstanding technical and emotional control.

The Sonatas are being amazingly recorded under the supervision and engineering of Patrych Sound Studios in New York.

The first three Sonatas show an early Beethoven and Forster brakes down the barriers, showing during the second movement of the Second Sonata the best character and harmony between association and a sense of a truth revolution, between sound and melody.

March 2009