Todai

KITCHEN. LABEL presents haruka nakamura PIANO ENSEMBLE’s new album entitled “Hikari” in a special 2CD box set edition to be released on 8th August 2017. “Hikari” is the final set of the trilogy of albums (Ongaku No Aru Fuukei and CURTAIN CALL) to feature the current PIANO ENSEMBLE lineup before they go on a indefinite hiatus after their last show at the grand St Mary’s Cathedral in Tokyo on 21st July 2017.

Obsédée par un passé tumultueux, elle a quitté son Angleterre natale dans le seul but de retrouver un vieux film disparu. Ces images seraient l'unique témoignage visuel des atrocités commises par les Japonais à Nankin en 1937. Un seul homme pourrait aider Grey. Un survivant du massacre, professeur à l'université Todai. Mais ce dernier, méfiant, refuse de répondre aux questions de la jeune femme. …

Kissin's generous lyricism and lovely rubato in Rachmaninov's Lilacs make a distinguished prelude to this recital; but they are only a hint of the revelations to come. The big E flat minor Etude tableau drenches the listener in an extraordinary welter of sound, at once free and controlled, sensitive to harmonic nuance and yet to broader undercurrents as well. And it is followed by a phenomenally articulate C minor, swirling and crackling like a force of nature (with just a couple of accidents on the last page as a brief reminder of human frailty)