Mao Fujita - Chopin / Scriabin / Akio Yashiro:24 Preludes - Import 2 CD

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Mao Fujita

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Included in the album. Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op.28 Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op.11 Akio Yashiro:24 Preludes Performers Mao Fujita (Piano) Recorded: December 4~7, 10~12, 2023, April 9~12, 2024 b-sharp music & media solutions (Berlin) The second album by Mao Fujita, a young pianist who continues to perform at the world's highest level on the world's cypress stages, is a 2-CD set containing the complete 24 Preludes composed by three composers from different countries and eras, Chopin, Scriabin, and Akio Yashiro, respectively, for a total of 72 tracks. Mao Fujita was born in Tokyo in 1998 and is 25 years old. In 2017, while a student at the Tokyo College of Music, she won the first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland, while simultaneously receiving the Audience Prize, the Contemporary Music Prize, and the Youth Critics' Prize, attracting attention from music professionals worldwide. In 2019, she also won the second prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, where her special musical talent was enthusiastically received by the jury and made a big splash in Japan through TV news programs. He then signed an exclusive worldwide contract with the prestigious classical music label Sony Classical and released his worldwide debut album "Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas" in 2022. Overseas, he was selected as Young Artist of the Year at the Opus Classical Award 2023, one of the most prestigious awards in the German classical music world, and in Japan, despite being a classical work, it ranked in the Oricon weekly album overall chart and also received the Japan Arts Festival Award, It is still fresh in our memories that the album became a brilliant hit in Japan. This recording project is a follow-up to the "24 Preludes" by three composers, Chopin, Scriabin, and Akio Yashiro, and includes all three of their works. Each of the three preludes consists of 24 preludes, one for each of the major and minor keys, for the 12 notes from do to c. With Chopin's 24 preludes as the axis, the three prelude collections maintain an ideal symmetry with each other. All are extremely conceptually well thought out, and by combining the three works into a single album, they create a fascinating musical world that is distinct yet united in its diversity of poetics, volcanic energy, and atmospheric serenity. Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op.28 (1839), broke the concept of the term "prelude" and elevated the form from a small, often improvised introduction to a workable form of music with its own meaning. Scriabin's 24 Preludes, Op.11 (1888-96), echoes Chopin's Preludes in many respects, but presents a more extended, expressionist world view.The third work is also extremely interesting. This is the world premiere major-label recording of the 24 Preludes (1945) by Japanese composer Akio Yashiro. Further developing the model of Chopin's preludes, Akio Yashiro composed this work when he was only 15 years old, creating an original world rich in musical idioms. (Sony Music)