Yoshikazu Mera - Arias St John Passion / Christmas Oratorio - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This album gathers some world premiere recordings by a composer who for too long has been considered an expression of solely jazz music- Chick Corea. This is the homage to an artist able to merge different genres in his compositions and to combine the experiences of giants of the classical repertoire such as Bach and Debussy, with those of Bartok and Ligeti. With the phrase InchThis is... musicInch, he shows that he does not want to categorize his compositions in a specific musical genre. Album Tracks 1. Children's Songs~I. Song No. 1 2. Children's Songs~II. Song No. 2 3. Children's Songs~III. Song No. 3 4. Children's Songs~IV. Song No. 4 5. Children's Songs~V. Song No. 5 6. Children's Songs~VI. Song No. 6 7. Children's Songs~VII. Song No. 7 8. Children's Songs~VIII. Song No. 8 9. Children's Songs~IX. Song No. 9 10. Children's Songs~X. Song No. 10 11. Children's Songs~XI. Song No. 11 12. Children's Songs~XII. Song No. 12 13. Children's Songs~XIII. Song No. 13 14. Children's Songs~XIV. Song No. 14 15. Children's Songs~XV. Song No. 15 16. Children's Songs~XVI. Song No. 16 17. Children's Songs~XVII. Song No. 17 18. Children's Songs~XVIII. Song No. 18 19. Children's Songs~XIX. Song No. 19 20. Children's Songs~XX. Song No. 20 21. Piano Fantasy 22. Piano Music~Piano Music No. 1 23. Piano Music~Piano Music No. 2 24. Piano Music~Piano Music No. 3 25. Piano Music~Piano Music No. 4 26. Piano Music~Piano Music No. 5

Album Tracks 1. Movement I 2. Movement II 3. Movement III 4. Movement IV 5. Movement V 6. Movement VI 7. Movement VII

What did Haydn sound like while he was on tour in London, giving concerts and teaching? Today, nobody perhaps comes closer to the sound from that time than Rebecca Maurer, who plays here on her original London fortepiano from 1816. Furthermore, the internationally sought-after fortepiano virtuoso does this with dazzling technique and immaculate stylistic confidence. The repertoire is also sensational, above all because it is not every day that one finds world premiere recordings by Haydn students on program flyers fragrant music of Sentimentalism with some hints of Romanticism by Thomas Haigh and Christian Ignatius Latrobe. Outstanding repertoire! Equally at home on the fortepiano and harpsichord, Rebecca Maurer is acclaimed as one of the outstanding specialists for historical keyboard instruments of her generation. She studied piano, harpsichord and fortepiano in Freiburg, Amsterdam and at Cornell University where she held a fellowship. Her previous recording was nominated for the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik as well as for an International Classical Music Award in the Baroque instrumental category.