Masako Ohta - My Music Garden (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. In a Landscape
02. Intermezzo A-Dur, Op. 118 No. 2
03. Clair De Lune
04. Impromptu Ges-Dur, Op. 90 No. 3
05. Patterns of Plants: The 26th Collection »Tea Patterns«: Pattern B »Yabe«
06. Nocturne, Op. 55 No.1 in F Minor
07. Souvenir from Japan - Sakura for Piano
08. Rain Choral
09. Fantasie D-Moll KV 397 (385G)
10. Extemporale: Präludium

Masako Ohta chooses a haiku by Matsuo Bash as the motto for her musical garden: For a while moonlit night over flowers. Ohta opens with In a landscape by John Cage and leads over to Clair de lune by Claude Debussy with the Intermezzo, N 2, A major by Johannes Brahms. Pattern B Yabe from Patterns of Plants by Japanese composer Mamoru Fujieda is just as much a part of her journey into the infinite nature of sounds as Fumio Yasuda's Rain Forrest and Souvenir from Japan, Sakura for Piano by Toshio Hosokawa. Masako Ohta combines classical music from Schubert, Mozart, Chopin and Zimmermann with contemporary Japanese sounds to create a poetic work of fine and sensitive timbres. With My Music Garten, Masako Ohta releases her third piano solo album on Winter & Winter. For the recordings, Ohta retreated to a solitary forest house in the Bavarian Forest, far away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, to be inspired by silence and nature. This album is the result of her intensive study of poetry, sound and music from her native Japan and her adopted home in the West. Masako Ohta lives in Munich and performs all over the world, often in collaboration with actors, dancers, poets and visual artists.

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