Mao Fujita
Poetry of the piano.
Few pianists combine crystal touch, weightless fluency and scented poetry like Mao Fujita – and certainly none of his relative youth.
The Japanese pianist has impressed international audiences and critics with his recordings of Mozart’s complete piano sonatas and his innovative pairings of Prelude sets by Bach, Scriabin and Yashiro.
Fujita comes to Håkonshallen for a programme with his fingerprints of logic and connectivity all over it, starting with various composers’ own homages to Joseph Haydn. His recital continues with some big beasts of the piano repertoire, from the suggestive sensuality of Debussy’s Images, the free-flowing fantasy of Beethoven’s Sonata no. 30 with its sublime final set of variations on a celestial theme, to Rachmaninoff’s devilish, Faust-inspired Piano Sonata no.1 and, ultimately, perhaps the most sublime piece of musical logic of all: Bach’s Chaconne – the final movement of his Partita no. 2 for violin in its unparralleled arrangement by Ferrucio Busoni.
Image: Mao Fujita. Photo: Dovile Sermokas
Contributors
Mao Fujita piano
Works
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn, M. 58. Minuet on the name of HaydnCharles-Marie Widor (1844–1937)
Fugue sur le nom d’Haydn. Fugue on the name of HaydnClaude Debussy (1862–1918)
Hommage à Haydn, CD. 123. Tribute to Haydn
Images, 1re série, CD. 105. Images, first series
1. Reflets dans l’eau. Reflections in the water
2. Hommage à Rameau. Tribute to Rameau
3. Mouvement. MovementLudwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Piano Sonata no. 30, op. 109
1. Vivace ma non troppo – Adagio espressivo
2. Prestissimo
3. Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung. Andante molto cantabile ed espressivoSergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
Piano Sonata no. 1, op. 28
1. Allegro moderato
2. Lento
3. Allegro moderatoJohann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
From Partita no. 2 i D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004
5. Chaconne
Arr. Ferruccio Busoni
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