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Mao Fujita

72 Preludes - Chopin Scriabin Yashiro

Sony Classical
Release Date: September 6, 2024

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1 No. 1 in C Major - Agitato  
2 No. 2 in A Minor - Lento  
3 No. 3 in G Major - Vivace  
4 No. 4 in E Minor - Largo  
5 No. 5 in D Major - Molto allegro  
6 No. 6 in B Minor - Lento assai  
7 No. 7 in A Major - Andantino  
8 No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor - Molto agitato  
9 No. 9 in E Major - Largo  
10 No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor - Molto allegro  
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Following his “consistently impressive” (Gramophone) traversal of Mozart’s complete Piano Sonatas for Sony Classical - winner of an Opus Klassik Award - Japanese pianist Mao Fujita presents a similarly ambitious project: matching sets of 24 Preludes by three composers, Frédéric Chopin, Alexander Scriabin and Akio Yashiro. In so doing, Fujita unites the Europe in which he now lives with the Japan where he was born and raised. His new Sony Classical Album - 72 Preludes - is set for release on September 6, 2024. Accompanying today’s news is the new track 24 Preludes: No. 8. in F-Sharp Minor - Andante tempo di Barcarolle

Chopin’s landmark set of 24 Préludes, completed in 1839, was the first work to treat the piano prelude as a self-contained work capable of standing alone. After the model laid down in Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier, the set traverses every key from C major to D minor, alternating major tonalities with their relative minors.

On his new album 72 Preludes, Fujita treats Chopin’s expressive yet elusive cycle as the basis for a dialogue that traverses borders and epochs. In 1884, Russian visionary Alexander Scriabin began work on his own set of 24 Preludes, directly inspired by Chopin’s. Scriabin’s pieces build on the grace and fluency of Chopin’s - also using his key scheme - while showing glimpses of the composer’s emerging radical harmonic and rhythmic character. They suggest that Scriabin, known for music on a huge scale, was an exquisite miniaturist.

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