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Nojima Plays Liszt

  • Nojima Plays Liszt | Minoru Nojima

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Catalog No: RR-25
Artists: Minoru Nojima
Composers: Franz Liszt
Release Year: 1987-04-05
Available Formats: Downloads, HDCD, HRx, Reference Mastercuts LP
UPC/EAN: 30911102524
HRX Available On ElusiveDisc.com

Minoru Nojima

Nojima Plays Liszt (RR-25) was named “Best Recording of the Month” by Stereo Review when it was originally released in 1988. It was described as “A stunning demonstration of technique put at the service of profoundly musical ends.” Minoru Nojima, one of Japan’s most internationally respected pianists, also created magic in Nojima Plays Ravel (RR-35) originally released in 1990.

From the LP Liner Notes: “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

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Vinyl Information

A great gem from our catalog, now released for the first time as a 45 rpm 2-LP set, half-speed mastered, pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl from Quality Record Pressings, and packaged in a beautiful old-style gatefold jacket.

Vinyl Track List

Side A: Mephisto Waltz; La Campanella;
Side B: Feux Follets; Harmonies du soir;
Side C: Sonata in B minor – beginning;
Side D: Sonata in B minor – conclusion; and Ravel: Alborada del gracioso

On This Recording

  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"
  3. Études d'exécution transcendante, S. 139:
  4. No. 11 in D-Flat Major, "Harmonies du soir"
  5. No. 5 in B-Flat Major, "Feux follets"
  6. Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178:
  7. Lento assai
  8. Recitativo: Ritenuto ed appassionato
  9. Andante sostenuto
  10. Allegro energico
  11. Cantando espressivo
  12. Andante sostenuto

Reviews:

“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

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