{"title":"MAO FUJITA","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"mao-fujita-mozart-the-complete-piano-sonatas-cd","title":"MAO FUJITA - Mozart: The Complete Piano Sonatas | CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eSony Classical releases Mao Fujita’s studio recording of the complete Mozart piano sonatas in a five-CD box set. Described by The Times of London as “a musician of extraordinary versatility and taste, with a poetic sense of pulse,” Fujita signed an exclusive contract with Sony Classical in 2021, having made his solo debut at the Verbier Festival performing the same series of works. Of that series, the French magazine Toute la Culture lauded Fujita for his sense of joy that shone through in “performances of incredible intimacy.” Challenging the image of Mozart’s music as written in stone without correction, Fujita approaches these sonatas with an understanding that Mozart, a pianist himself, often improvised during his own performances of the works and treated the scores as starting points for improvisation and embellishment. “He didn’t always play what he wrote,” the pianist explains of the composer. “When I play Mozart’s sonatas solely as he wrote them, it’s quite boring. You can, on the contrary, do something special.” Toute la Culture also praised him: “With a sound of pure and astonishing beauty, he inserts imaginative riffs here and there, but always in keeping with the classical style.” Mozart’s 18 piano sonatas offer a unique musical biography of the composer. Written between 1774 and 1789, they cover almost his entire adult life: the earliest dates from when he was 18, the last was composed just two years before his death in 1791. So far in Fujita’s career, they have also become an integral part of the musical biography of this increasingly in-demand pianist: He won the silver medal at the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition, partly thanks to his interpretation of Piano Sonata No. 10 (K. 330). This, in turn, was inspired by Vladimir Horowitz’s 1986 recital in Moscow where, in the same hall used for the Tchaikovsky Competition, he played the same piece. Years later, it was watching the video recording of that concert (also released by Sony Classical) that prompted Fujita to take up the piano.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sony Music Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59314197299534,"sku":"0196587107628","price":34.98,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0917\/0357\/4862\/files\/Cover_maofujita.webp?v=1775233336"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0917\/0357\/4862\/collections\/Cover_maofujita.jpg?v=1775810830","url":"https:\/\/store.sonymusic.fr\/en\/collections\/mao-fujita.oembed","provider":"Sony Music Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}