Credits:

Tetsu Yurina

Description:

Beethoven's Complete Piano Sonatas, which traces the dramatic life of Beethoven through eight themes. This collection (5 CDs each) was recorded in parallel with eight concerts of Beethoven's complete piano sonatas held at the Seika Mitake Salon in Shibuya, Tokyo. The commentary by Yurina Tetsu herself has been well received, not only analyzing the pieces from the multiple viewpoints of a pianist and a researcher, but also presenting the basis and background of performance interpretation in concrete terms, including suggestions for fingerings, making the CD a valuable resource not only for pianists, but also for all performers, especially conductors, researchers, and music lovers. This is a groundbreaking collection of Beethoven's works that will allow pianists, conductors, and all other performers, as well as researchers and music lovers, to get closer to the core of Beethoven's music by listening to and reading the performances on the CD. The six halls in the upper and lower volumes are recorded at the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall and, in the final recording, at the soon-to-be-ovened Toho Gakuen Munetsugu Hall. Both the upper and lower volumes come in a special 5-disc case. In 2019, her debut CD "Schumann: Piano Sonata No.3, Brahms: Chaconne for the Left Hand" will be released from N&F. In 2021, her second CD "Schumann: Piano Sonatas No.2 and No.1" was selected as a semi-selected CD by "Record Geijutsu", recommended by "Mainichi Newspaper", and recommended by "Ongaku Gendai", etc. From 2019, she will start a series of performances of Beethoven's complete Piano Sonatas. In 2019, he will hold a series of performances of Beethoven's complete Pino Sonatas at the Mitake Seika Salon (now the Shibuya Mitake Salon), which will be broadcast as a documentary by NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). In March 2022, "The Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1" (5 CD set) was released and was specially selected by "Record Geijutsu" (Recorded Arts). In addition to many recitals, he has performed with orchestras such as the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra. He also performs throughout Japan as an artist dispatched by the Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Cultural Foundation. She won the 2nd Prize, Iwatani Prize (Audience Prize), and Miyake Prize at the 86th Japan Music Competition. He won the 4th Takamatsu International Piano Competition, Deliberator's Special Prize. First Prize and Grand Prix in the High School Division of the 20th Japan Classical Music Competition.First prize winner of the 11th Osaka International Music Competition and the 14th Rosenstock International Piano Competition. 2015, performed in front of the Imperial Palace at the Momoka Gakudo Hall. 2017 Kagawa Prefecture Cultural Arts Newcomer Award. She has received scholarship grants from Yamaha Music Foundation, Yonden Cultural Foundation, Iwatani Tokiko Foundation for Youth, and Munetsugu Angel Fund. In the academic field, he received the 4th Minao Shibata Music Criticism Award (this prize) for his paper "Liberation from 'Sonata Form'," and the following year he received the 5th Minao Shibata Music Criticism Award for "Restoration of Performance: Reclaiming Music from 'Analysis'" in succession. He received his Ph.D. from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he completed his master's and doctoral studies, and his dissertation, "The Fashions and Rise and Fall of Performance Interpretation and Repeated 'Rereadings': Based on the Transition of Beethoven's Reception from the 18th Century to the Present". Universal Music/IMS