Classical Music February 2019

Praised by the Baseler Zeitung and Bangkok Post for her „personal and captivating style“ and „polished, powerful and refined“ performance, Hitomi Niikura pursues a successful career as a soloist who with her passion has captured the hearts of audiences across the world.

The radio recordings between 1939 and 1945 with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Wilhelm Furtwängler are among classical music’s most compelling sound documents. Created at the peak of the collaboration between orchestra and conductor, Furtwängler’s artist personality is conveyed more vividly than anywhere else. What can be heard is music in which inspiration and the expressive will know no bounds and in which, not least, the existential experience of the Second World War reverberates. For the first time, the Berliner Philharmoniker are releasing a complete edition of these recordings on 22 CD/SACD.

Giuseppina Torre was born in Vittoria (Italy). After achieving the Diploma in Piano at the High School of Musical Studies “V. Bellini” of Caltanissetta, under the direction of Maestro Sergio Carrubba, she refines her skills with Maestro Giuseppe Cultrera and Maestro Francesco Nicolosi. After the Diploma in Piano she starts her career as a concert pianist at first as a classical music interpreter and then as an interpreter of her own compositions, which, as regards atmosphere and contents, approach Contemporary Music.