2024年
私の最新アルバム「Preludes」について素晴らしいレビューを書いてくださった「Classical Explorer」に感謝します😊🎹 https://www.classicalexplorer.com/preludes/
「想像力豊かにプログラムされ、素晴らしい演奏が施された素晴らしいディスク。前奏曲のディスクはそれほど珍しいものではありませんが、ここにはショパンやドビュッシーの姿はありません。代わりに、アントン・アレンスキーはラフマニノフと肩を並べます。ラヴェルとガーシュインの出会い。
私は日本人ピアニスト根岸友紀のデビュー盤『エニグマ』(ショパン、メラニー・スパンズウィック、カプースチン、ロバート・ミッチェルの音楽)を楽しみました。この 1 時間のディスクは、同様に魂に栄養を与えます。根岸は素晴らしいピアニストで、思慮深く、それでいて情熱も持っています。根岸はサウンドを磨き、作曲家一人一人に丁寧にアプローチする。
…もしアレンスキーが(少なくともラフマニノフと比較して)泡立ちと軽やかさすべてだと思うなら、前奏曲作品2を試してみてください。 63/10、非常に深みのあるニ短調アダージョ。根岸の演奏では高音と低音が美しく対話する。
…(ラフマニノフ 前奏曲 Op.23) ラフマニノフとなると、人は感動の世界に入ります。コツは、音楽を感傷的にしないことです。彼の音楽を映画やポップミュージックに取り入れることは、ラフマニノフのスターにとってまったく有利ではありませんでした。根岸はラフマニノフの奥深さを表現する完璧な方法を見つけ出し、彼女のペダリングによって第1番(嬰ヘ短調)の細部がすべて明らかになります。
…ニ短調の完璧な左手のスタッカート (第 3 番、Tempo di menuetto) を聴いてください。このパフォーマンス全体は、ライブパフォーマンスのような熱狂的でありながら、スタジオの正確さを備えた、最高のパフォーマンスです。
..根岸は最後から2番目の前奏曲を適切なプレストで取り、各音符は完璧に配置されています....」
Thank you to “Classical Explorer” for a wonderful review of my latest album “Preludes”
https://www.classicalexplorer.com/preludes/
“A wonderful disc, imaginatively programmed and superbly played. A disc of Preludes is not so unusual: but here there is no Chopin or Debussy in sight. Instead, Anton Arensky rubs shoulders with Rachmaninoff; Ravel meets Gershwin.
I enjoyed Japanese pianist Yuki Negishi's debut disc ‘Enigma’ (music by Chopin, Melanie Spanswick, Kapustin and Robert Mitchell); this hour-long disc is just as nourishing for the soul. Negishi is a fine pianist, thoughtful and yet capable of passion. Negishi hones her sound and approach carefully to each composer.
…If you think Arensky is all froth and lightness (in comparison with Rachmaninoff, at least), try the Prelude Op. 63/10, a D-Minor Adagio of great depth. The treble and bass dialogue beautifully in Negishi's performance.
…(Rachmaninoff Preludes Op.23) When it comes to Rachmaninoff, one enters a whole world of emotion. The trick is not to sentimentalise the music; co-opting his music into films and pop music has really done Rachmaninoff's star no favours. Negishi finds the perfect way to project Rachmaninoff's profundity, her pedalling allowing all of the detail of the first (F sharp-Minor) to reveal itself.
….just listen to the perfect left-hand staccato in D-Minor (No. 3, Tempo di menuetto). This whole performance is a tour-de-force, exuberant in the manner of a live performance and yet with the exactitude of the studio.
..Negishi takes the penultimate Prelude at a proper Presto, each note perfectly placed…..”
2022年
英グラモフォン誌のCD批評
Enigma: Jazz meets Classical
The disc is beaufullly recorded, but it is Nigishi's innate musicality that allows the music to shine - very strongly recommended
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Colin Clarke
May 26, 2022 • 2 min read
This is, amazingly, Yuki Negishi's debut album. Once you hear her, you'll understand my use of the word ‘amazing’: her disc justaposes Bill Evans and Chopin, finds a midway in the music of Nikolai Kapustin and introduces music by two of Negishi's contemporaries, Robert Mitchell and Melanie Spanswick (both of these last are World Premiere recordings; the Spanswick was written especially for this pianist). All of this in performances of the utmost integrity. Here is a pianist who uses a superlative technique to project performances that glow with an inner light of understanding.
Nikolai Kapustin (1937-2020) was a composer whose music expertly straddled classical and jazz, as we can hear from the first movement of his First Sonata, fluidly and beautifully played by Negishi here:
Negishi is particularly impressive in the volatile finale, a sort of jazzy Scriabin:
Interestingly Robert Mitchell, who also writes the booklet notes for the Scriabin as well as contributing a piece himself, finds echoes of Bill Evans in the Largo, along with Gershwin:
Melanie Spanwick's short piece Enigma, from which the disc takes its name, was composed in February 2019. A short essay on the resonance of the piano, it is intended to refer, in mood, to a tragic (unnamed) love affair. The left-hand part is intricately patterned, in homage to Negishi's talent in this area. It's a beautiful piece, well worth exploring, and Negishi's performance is warm and compelling - she is a clear story-teller. Listen to the evocation of storm-clouds in the affair (achieved via that left-hand virtuosity):
Robert Mitchell's own Our Hearts Dance The Infinite (As The Giant Paya Blooms) refers to the infrequent blossoming of the plant of the title, the Giant Paya. This is a left-hand only piece, gentle, beautiful, almost Impressionist, its floating quality presumably a reflection of the word “infinite” in the title:
Interesting that Negishi waits until now to introduce the familiar, and how brilliantly she does so. In performing a piece that is intimitely related to the natural world before it (the Mitchell), how impressive is it that Chopin's Berceuse seems to grow organically from Mitchell's ending?. Negishi's performance of this first Chopin piece of the programme is a miracle of delicacy and clarity: her pedalling is perfectly judged so we hear every note unsmudged and yet all of the atmosphere is there.
Despite a fine Funeral March, it is the finale that impresses the most - we're back to that elemental aspect, here what Cortot calles the wind howling around the gravestones. This is transcendental pianism - a true Presto, as Chopin requested:
Originally an improvisation to conclude the recording sessions for the album Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1958), Peace Piece has a left-hand that seems to refer back to the Chopin Berceuse we heard earlier, within a French Impressionist haze and with occasional nods to Messiaen. Negishi's performance is mesmeric:
With its continual feeling of searching for something just out of grasp, no wonder Kapustin called thsi sonata, “Sonata-Fantasie”.
Negishi's Chopin Third Sonata is positively elemental in its first movement:
The disc is beaufullly recorded, too, but it is Negishi's innate musicality that allows the music to shine - very strongly recommended.
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夭折の作曲家、貴志(1909ー1937)の「発見」は続く。今回は1933ー1935年作曲、3楽章構成の「ヴァイオリン・ソナタ」と「竹取物語」「南蛮寺」「南蛮船」「スペイン女」「海の詩」からなるヴァイオリンとピアノのための小品、「行進曲Ⅰ」「アンダンテ」「行進曲Ⅱ」「モデラート」「タンゴ」からなるピアノ小品集を収めた。録音はヴァイオリンとピアノのデュオが2021年8月30ー31日のチューリヒ、ピアノ独奏曲が同年6月のロンドン。
ヴァイオリンの石橋は貴志が所有していた1710年製のストラディヴァリウス「キング・ジョージ」を貸与されており、作曲者の奏でていた音が90年ぶりに蘇ったことになる。若くしてヨーロッパへ渡り、当時最先端の音楽と日本文化の融合を試みた貴志の作品を今に伝える上でチューリヒ・トーンハレ管弦楽団員の石橋、ロンドン在住の根岸の2人は「外から見た日本」の視点を共有、理想的な再現を繰り広げる。
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