Beskrivning
“A stunning demonstration of technique put at the service of profoundly musical ends.”
// Stereo Review
“Anticipating the judgment of history is no doubt presumptuous, but to hear Minoru Nojima is to find irresistible the idea that here is a pianist destined to join the pantheon of keyboard immortals. Nojima has a technique that invites comparison with the most dazzling of the great piano virtuosi, past or present. Even more, he has a depth of musical expressiveness that one can relate only to the spiritual, to music as an almost religious experience. His playing, once heard, is literally unforgettable…”
// Robert Everist Greene, Professor of Mathematics, UCLA Reviewer, The Absolute Sound
1 Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke, S514/R181, ”Erste Mephisto-Walzer” (”Mephisto Waltz No. 1”)
2 Grandes Etudes de Paganini, S141/R3b: No. 3 in G-Sharp Minor, ”La campanella”
Études d’exécution transcendante, S. 139
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3 No. 11 in D-Flat Major, ”Harmonies du soir”
4 No. 5 in B-Flat Major, ”Feux follets”
5 Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178
