Japanese Piano

Yoko Suzuki recorded this album in Barcelona, just weeks before the blooming of the cherry blossoms in Japan. This virtuoso pianist, one of the last great disciples of Alicia de Larrocha, proposes an audio journey to us through a flowery Japanese piano repertoire, so astonishing, heterogeneous and attractive as the very culture of this distant land of the rising sun, where tradition and modernity live side by side on a daily basis. As we discover each of the pieces on this album, we will feel how Yoko Suzukiâ??s extraordinary performance technique and her captivating magnetic power are reminiscent of the spring wind that whispers through the cherry blossoms to ultimately stir our souls.

01 Sakura Sakura (Fantasy for Piano) 0:00 Kozaburo Y. Hirai

02 Kagome Variation 0:00 Kiyoshige Koyama

03 Haru no Umi 0:00 Michio Miyagi

04 Karatachi-no-Hana 0:00 Kosaku Yamada

05 Furusato 0:00 Teiichi Okano

06 Hana 0:00 Rentaro Taki

07 Fantasia on a Theme of "Oboro Tsukiyo" 0:00 Chihiro Todoroki

08 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 0:00 Ryuichi Sakamoto

09 Tori no Hito (Nausicaä) 0:00 Joe Hisaishi

10 Minami-Piano Piece of Sena (Long Vacation) 0:00 Daisuke Hinata

11 Nana wa saku 0:00 Yoko Kanno

12 Rain Tree Sketch II: In Memoriam Olivier Messiaen 0:00 Toru Takemitsu

13 Prelude N.1 Japan (Phantasiae Peregrinabundae Vol. 1) 0:00 Sakae Tauchi

14 Genpei momo 0:00 Yoko Suzuki

15 Esperanza 0:00 Yoko Suzuki

Piano: Yoko Suzuki