Masako Ohta - My Music Garden - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Masako Ohta chooses a haiku by Matsuo Basho as the motto for her musical garden For a while moonlit night over flowers. Ohta opens with InchIn a landscapeInch by John Cage and leads over to InchClair de luneInch by Claude Debussy with the Intermezzo, Nº 2, A major by Johannes Brahms. Pattern B InchYabeInch from Patterns of Plants by Japanese composer Mamoru Fujieda is just as much a part of her journey into the infinite nature of sounds as Fumio Yasuda's InchRain ForrestInch and InchSouvenir from Japan, Sakura for PianoInch by Toshio Hosokawa. Masako Ohta combines classical music from Schubert, Mozart, Chopin and Zimmermann with contemporary Japanese sounds to create a poetic work of fine and sensitive timbres. With InchMy Music GartenInch, Masako Ohta releases her third piano solo album on Winter & Winter. For the recordings, Ohta retreated to a solitary forest house in the Bavarian Forest, far away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, to be inspired by silence and nature. This album is the result of her intensive study of poetry, sound and music from her native Japan and her adopted home in the West. Masako Ohta lives in Munich and performs all over the world, often in collaboration with actors, dancers, poets and visual artists. Album Tracks 1. In a landscape 2. Intermezzo, No. 2 A-Dur, Op. 118 3. Clair de lune 4. Impromptu, No. 3 Ges-Dur, Op. 90 5. Patterns of Plants the 26th Collection InchTea PatternsInch~Pattern B InchYabeInch 6. Nocturne in F-minor, Op. 55, No. 1 7. Souvenir from Japan, Sakura for Piano 8. Rain Choral 9. Fantasie d-moll, KV 397 (385g) 10. Extemporale~Präludium