"Jasmin Fors has put her personality in the league and released an ambitious, personal album with a credible and impressive multi-artistic ensemble.

She introduces herself as a unique Chopin player,

holding up the magic of music as if it were a feather in the air."

– Kare Eskola / YLE

"Finnish pianist Jasmin Fors is without doubt an artist of a highly sensitive nature. Liszt Sonata in B Minor is accorded a powerful performance. There is grandeur aplenty here, but what seals the deal is Fors’ attention to detail,  particularly in the inner voices. Definitely hear this disc for the Liszt, which is refreshing, commanding and strong. "

– Colin Clarke / International Piano

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"Delicate Beauty – Finnish pianist and artist Jasmin Fors introduces her debut album of masterworks by Chopin and Liszt, delving deep into the Romantic ideas that inspired their creativity"

International Piano / "Personal Touch" interview, June 2022

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.

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Producer, artistical concept & editing plans: Jasmin Fors

Recording, editing & layout: Lauri Toivio

Recorded 2017–2020

Instrument: Steinway & Sons D-274 "Concert Grand"

Texts and poem: Jasmin Fors

Translations: Elävä Kieli Oy

Cover illustartion: Self-portrait (pencil on paper, ca. 30 x 38 cm), Jasmin Fors

Distributor: Fuga Oy

Also available directly from the artist: info@villajasmin.fi