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72 Preludes: Chopin, Scriabin, Yashiro album review – Fujita’s no frills approach brings care and clarity
Fujita’s attention to detail serves the Scriabin miniatures well, although the Chopin needs more character
His debut recording for Sony Classical was a complete survey of Mozart’s piano sonatas; his follow-up brings together three sets of preludes in all 24 of the major and minor keys, each separated historically from the previous one by approximately half a century. Chopin’s 1839 set provides the model for both Scriabin’s Op 11, completed in 1896, and the preludes by Akio Yashiro, which he composed in 1945, at the age of 15, and which Fujita has recorded for the first time. There’s a crystal-clarity to his playing and a careful concern for every detail of the piano writing that serve the Scriabin miniatures very well, but Chopin’s preludes really need much more character than he provides.
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