Poetry of the piano.
Few pianists combine crystal touch, weightless fluency and scented poetry like Mao Fujita – and certainly none of his relative youth.
The Japanese pianist has impressed international audiences and critics with his recordings of Mozart’s complete piano sonatas and his innovative pairings of Prelude sets by Bach, Scriabin and Yashiro.
Fujita comes to Håkonshallen for a programme with his fingerprints of logic and connectivity all over it, starting with various composers’ own homages to Joseph Haydn. His recital continues with some big beasts of the piano repertoire, from the suggestive sensuality of Debussy’s Images, the free-flowing fantasy of Beethoven’s Sonata no. 30 with its sublime final set of variations on a celestial theme, to Rachmaninoff’s devilish, Faust-inspired Piano Sonata no.1 and, ultimately, perhaps the most sublime piece of musical logic of all: Bach’s Chaconne – the final movement of his Partita no. 2 for violin in its unparralleled arrangement by Ferrucio Busoni.
Image: Mao Fujita. Photo: Dovile Sermokas
