All this week on Classic Drive Lorcan will feature music from the new album from rising piano star Mao Fujita.
The musician has made a studio recording of Mozart's complete piano sonatas. Mozart's 18 piano sonatas offer a unique musical biography of the composer. Written between 1774 and 1789, they span nearly all of his adult life: the earliest dating back to when he was 18, the last composed just two years before his death in 1791. So far in Fujita’s career, they’ve also become an integral part of the increasingly in-demand pianist’s own musical biography. Fujita approaches these sonatas with the 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.
Listen in each day at 5:15 as Lorcan chooses a piece from this new album.