Keiko Shichijo

Solo Keyboard Works

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Bridge
UPC: 0090404957024
Catnr: BRIDG 9570
Release date: 08 October 2021
Buy
1 CD
✓ in stock
€ 19.95
Buy
 
Label
Bridge
UPC
0090404957024
Catalogue number
BRIDG 9570
Release date
08 October 2021

"...a viral rhythm and above all a beauty and a depth of interpretation that is first and above all due to the super musical Keiko Shichijo."

Luister, 03-1-2022
Album
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
Press
EN
DE

About the album

Fortepianist Keiko Shichijo presents a radically fresh view of Mozart's keyboard music. Neal Peres Da Costa, Professor of Historical Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music writes: "Keiko Shichijo has been inspired to reimagine a Mozart that is highly expressive, rhetorical, and even occasionally volatile." Shichijo's brilliant Mozart was recorded on an original Frère et Soeur Stein d’Augsbourg à Vienne dated 1802. Mr. Da Costa calls the instrument "absolutely ravishing in sound, with a clarity, crispness, and resonance that is ideally suited to Mozart’s piano writing."
Die Fortepianistin Keiko Shichijo präsentiert eine radikal neue Sicht auf Mozarts Tastenmusik. Neal Peres Da Costa, Professor für historische Aufführungspraxis am Sydney Conservatorium of Music, schreibt: "Keiko Shichijo hat sich dazu inspirieren lassen, einen Mozart neu zu erfinden, der hochexpressiv, rhetorisch und sogar gelegentlich flüchtig ist." Shichijos brillanter Mozart wurde auf einem originalen Frère et Soeur Stein d'Augsbourg à Vienne von 1802 aufgenommen. Herr Da Costa bezeichnet das Instrument als "absolut hinreißend im Klang, mit einer Klarheit, Präzision und Resonanz, die ideal für Mozarts Klavierwerk geeignet ist."

Artist(s)

Keiko Shichijo (fortepiano)

Pianist & fortepianist Keiko Shichijo is a special voice in both the Classical and new music worlds. Her traditional Japanese sensibilities combined with her knowledge of European historical performance practices shape her unique vision, and this is reflected in her feeling for the music, the instruments and the story behind them.  Hailing from Japan and residing in the Netherlands for more than a decade, she is active around the world playing both solo and chamber music. She is a prizewinner in many international competitions, including twice the International Early Music Competition (solo and duo) in Brugge, Belgium, the International Early Music Competition 'A Tre' in Trossingen in Germany and the Minkoff Prize from the music publisher, Edition Minkoff, and has performed...
more
Pianist & fortepianist Keiko Shichijo is a special voice in both the Classical and new music worlds. Her traditional Japanese sensibilities combined with her knowledge of European historical performance practices shape her unique vision, and this is reflected in her feeling for the music, the instruments and the story behind them. Hailing from Japan and residing in the Netherlands for more than a decade, she is active around the world playing both solo and chamber music. She is a prizewinner in many international competitions, including twice the International Early Music Competition (solo and duo) in Brugge, Belgium, the International Early Music Competition "A Tre" in Trossingen in Germany and the Minkoff Prize from the music publisher, Edition Minkoff, and has performed in many international festivals such as the festivals Printemps Des Arts (France), Utrecht Oude Muziek Festival (Holland), MA Festival (Belgium), La Folle Journée Tokyo (Japan). In 2012, the Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments in Japan released her first fortepiano solo CD of works by Schubert.
Her second solo CD “6 Dances by Komitas Vardapet”, released in 2016, earned unanimous praise in the international press and was featured on the national Dutch TV program Vrije Geluiden.
Keiko Shichijo has a violin/fortepiano duo with renowned violinist Cecilia Bernardini which performs regularly throughout Europe.
As a specialist in contemporary music Keiko has worked with many composers, including Helmut Lachenmann, Tom Johnson, Johannes Kalitzke, Jürg Frey, Roscoe Mitchell en Bernhard Lang. She is a piano and fortepiano professor at the Fontys Academy for Music and Performing Arts Tilburg in the Netherlands, a piano professor at KASK & Conservatorium School of Arts Gent in Belgium.

less

Composer(s)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose actual name is Joannes Chrysotomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, violinist and conductor from the classical period, born in Salzburg. Mozart was a child prodigy. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, Mozart is considered to be one of the most influential composers of all of music's history. Within the classical tradition, he was able to develop new musical concepts which left an everlasting impression on all the composers that came after him. Together with Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven he is part of the First Viennese School.  At 17, Mozart was engaged as...
more

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose actual name is Joannes Chrysotomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, violinist and conductor from the classical period, born in Salzburg. Mozart was a child prodigy. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, Mozart is considered to be one of the most influential composers of all of music's history. Within the classical tradition, he was able to develop new musical concepts which left an everlasting impression on all the composers that came after him. Together with Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven he is part of the First Viennese School. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. From 1763 he traveled with his family through all of Europe for three years and from 1769 he traveled to Italy and France with his father Leopold after which he took residence in Paris. On July 3rd, 1778, his mother passed away and after a short stay in Munich with the Weber family, his father urged him to return to Salzburg, where he was once again hired by the Bishop. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death.


less

Press

...a viral rhythm and above all a beauty and a depth of interpretation that is first and above all due to the super musical Keiko Shichijo.
Luister, 03-1-2022

Play album

You might also like..

Piano Concertos, Vol. 4, K. 503, K. 466
Anne-Marie McDermott
Piano Sonatas D. 850, D. 960
Anne-Marie McDermott
Piano Concertos Vol. 3
Anne-Marie McDermott
Piano Concertos, Vol. 2
Anne-Marie McDermott
Piano Concertos
Anne-Marie McDermott
Victor Rosenbaum, Piano
Victor Rosenbaum
Complete Music for Flute & Orchestra
Rune Most
Winterreise
Randall Scarlata
Schubert Piano Trios, D. 929 & D. 897
Trio Vitruvi
Sonatas, Vol. 2
Anne-Marie McDermott
Chopin & Schumann
Horacio Gutiérrez
Berl Senofsky in Concert - EXPO '58 Brussels
Berl Senofsky