Credits:

Takahashi Aki

Description:

The fourth volume of Satie's latest recording project, featuring six 4 hands works, "Children's Music" and "New Children's Music" by Aki Takahashi, a leading Satie performer, featuring the Italian virtuoso Costantino Catena. The "Children's Music Collection" features the works of Satyrico Caterina. In "Children's Music", Aki Takahashi reads the "Poetic Story" written by Satie on the score with piano performance. The booklet also includes detailed explanations and translations of the pieces by Kuniharu Akiyama. A must-have album for Satie fans. Aki Takahashi (piano) gave her first recital in 1970 and traveled to Europe for the first time in 1972, giving recitals at the Berlin Art Week, the Paris Autumn Art Festival, etc. She received the 1973 Art Festival Excellence Award for "The World of Aki Takahashi," a collection of 20 contemporary works from Japan and abroad. In 1975, he and Kuniharu Akiyama organized the "Erik Satie Concert Series," which became a great opportunity for the "rediscovery of Satie. He has revised the 13-volume "The Complete Works of Erik Satie for Piano" and released "The Complete Works of Erik Satie for Piano Music.He was invited to the U.S. by Morton Feldman in 1980, and was a visiting professor at the California Institute of the Arts in 1984, and received the first Kenzo Nakajima Award in 1983 and the first Kyoto Music Award for Practical Use in 1986. He has released numerous CDs, including the "Hyper Beatles" series, in which he commissioned leading contemporary composers from around the world to create works based on Beatles' numbers, and completed four CDs. In 2006, his recital of Feldman's works in New York was named one of the best concerts of 2006 by the New York Times. For his performances of the CDs "Schubert: Sonatas for Piano" and "Morton Feldman: Trio," he was awarded the 2007 Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art Encouragement Prize. His CD "Dangerous Night: Aki Takahashi Plays John Cage" won the Excellence Prize at the 2008 Japan Arts Festival. He received the Medal with Purple Ribbon in the fall of 2011.In 2014, he received the 23rd Asahi Contemporary Music Award. He is the author of "Parlando: My Piano Life" (Shunju-sha). Camerata Tokyo