Sony Classical Releases New EP of Bach Transcriptions by Young Piano Star Mao Fujita
Sony Classical Releases New EP of Bach Transcriptions
by Young Piano Star Mao Fujita
“Fujita is a musician of tremendous versatility and taste, with a poetic sense of pulse and eloquent, insightful, fearless articulation” – The Times
“Proportion and purpose” – The Guardian
“One gets the feeling that when Mao Fujita looks at a score he sees not scales, chords and octaves but shapes”
– New York Classical Review
Sony Classical releases a brand new recording project by acclaimed Berlin-based Japanese pianist, Mao Fujita. Following on from his lauded and highly significant 2022 debut recording of Mozart’s Complete Piano Sonatas and his subsequent 2023 EP ‘Mozart Reworked’, which features a selection of Mozart transcriptions, Mao Fujita turns his attention here to transcriptions by Alexander Siloti and Sergei Rachmaninov, of sublime works by J.S. Bach, scheduled for release on February 9, 2024. Bach Transcriptions was recorded in Summer 2023 in Berlin, where this young artist now lives and studies.
Mao Fujita’s chosen works for his new six track Bach Transcriptions EP include:
Prelude in B Minor, BWV 855a (Transcribed by Alexander Siloti)
Andante from the Sonata for Solo Violin, BWV 1003 (Transcribed by Alexander Siloti),
Paraphrase on the Prelude in C-Sharp Major, BWV 872 (Transcribed by Alexander Siloti)
Suite from the Partita for Violin in E Major, BWV 1006 (Transcribed by Sergei Rachmaninov)
I. Preludio
II. Gavotte
III. Gigue
Mao Fujita is rapidly gaining a name for himself internationally. This in-demand young pianist, who started his piano studies at the age of three, won the Clara Haskill Competition in 2017 and took the silver medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019. Since his arrival on world stages, including hugely successful recent debut appearances at both Carnegie Hall in New York and Wigmore Hall in London, his performances draw audiences into the music through his personable and intimate style, complemented by a sense of roving curiosity and delight that comes from constantly discovering new aspects of the music. His innate musical sensitivity, natural ability, vitality and good humor shine through all of his performances, whether live or recorded and he continues to charm audiences all over the world.