Jasmin Fors English

Drawn with Autobiographite is Jasmin Fors’s first solo album for which she focuses on the great and unique composers Chopin and Liszt and the deep-water pearls of their creative power. The record includes the composers’ musical autobiographies and self-portraits, drawn on the piano staff; it also reflects the pianist’s life intertwined with her musical development to date. Important and close to her heart during her journey as a pianist, the works selected for this recording involve an autobiographical strand. A complementary piece of the concept is Fors’s graphite self-portrait on the album cover.

Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor is a composition and an independent work of art that, with reason, could be considered the David statue of Western piano music—a great creative achievement and a masterpiece as a description of the man’s innermost self, just before Nietzsche and Freud. The work has accompanied the pianist for a long time, just waiting for the opportunity to break free and be recorded on disc. Chopin’s music, particularly Ballades in G and F Minor were Jasmin Fors’s first loves in piano music. They have guided her way into the depths of the world of music since the first days of her piano studies. With Liszt’s sonata, they lay the foundation of Fors’s recording—a long-term dream of hers; Chopin’s Trois nouvelles études, a set of smaller musical gems, complements the recording.

December 19, 2021

Jasmin Fors: Self-portrait

ca. 30 x 38 cm, pencil on paper, 2021