Lacrymosa from Mozart's Requiem, S. 550 Mao Fujita

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Lacrymosa from Mozart's Requiem, S. 550 (Arr. for Piano by Franz Liszt):
• 1Mozart: Lacrymosa from Mozart's Requiem, S. 550 (Arr. for Piano by Franz Liszt)03:45
• Serenade from Don Giovanni, K. 527 (Arr. for Piano by Georges Bizet):
• 2Mozart: Serenade from Don Giovanni, K. 527 (Arr. for Piano by Georges Bizet)02:26
• Ave verum corpus, K.618 (Arr. for Piano by Franz Liszt):
• 3Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K.618 (Arr. for Piano by Franz Liszt)03:15
• Total Runtime09:26

Info for Lacrymosa from Mozart's Requiem, S. 550

"Mao — und wie weiter?" Nein, nicht Zedong lautet die Antwort, und die Fährte weist auch nicht nach China, sondern nach Japan, wo 1998 der Pianist Mao Fujita geboren wurde. Als er im August 2022 die Bühne betrat, um mit Riccardo Chailly und dem Lucerne Festival Orchestra Rachmaninows Zweites Klavierkonzert aufzuführen, war er für die meisten im Publikum noch ein unbeschriebenes Blatt. Aber 45 Minuten später hielt es die Leute nicht mehr auf den Sitzen: Mao Fujita hatte ein glänzendes Debut absolviert und einen Rachmaninow gespielt, wie man ihn noch nicht gehört hatte. Da war kein Kraftmeier am Werk, der mit Lautstärke und viriler Potenz aufwartete, sondern ein Poet, der die Tasten streichelte und Rachmaninows berühmtestes Konzert, das man so gut zu kennen glaubte, in ein ganz neues Licht rückte. Fast wie Schumann klang das plötzlich. Und Mao Fujita hat noch mehr drauf: Im Herbst legte er eine Gesamteinspielung der Mozart-Klaviersonaten vor, die mit subtiler Phrasierung, Witz und zupackender Lebenslust aufwartet.

Mao Fujita, Klavier

Mao Fujita
With an innate musical sensitivity and naturalness to his artistry, 24-year old pianist Mao Fujita has already impressed many leading musicians as one of those special talents which come along only rarely, equally at home in Mozart as the major romantic repertoire.

Born in Tokyo, Fujita was still studying at the Tokyo College of Music in 2017 when he took First Prize at the prestigious Concours International de Piano Clara Haskil in Switzerland, along with the Audience Award, Prix Modern Times, and the Prix Coup de Coeur, which first brought him to the attention of the international music community. He was also the Silver Medalist at the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, where his special musical qualities received exceptional attention from a jury of leading musicians.

Fujita has been invited to appear in recital at major international festivals including the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Tsinandali and Riga-Jurmala festivals, among others, and he makes his highly-anticipated US recital debut at Carnegie Hall in January 2023. Recent and upcoming orchestral highlights include performances with the Gewandhausorchester, Munich Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Philharmonique de Radio France, Konzerthaus Berlin, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, RAI, Filarmonica della Scala, and Lucerne Festival orchestras, while his many conductor relationships include Vasily Petrenko, Christoph Eschenbach, Riccardo Chailly, and Andris Nelsons.

In November 2021, Fujita signed an exclusive multi-album deal with Sony Classical International. The new partnership sees him explore many facets of repertoire across several releases, starting with an eagerly-anticipated studio recording of Mozart’s complete piano sonatas, which is due for release in October 2022, following an acclaimed series of performances of the complete sonatas at the Verbier Festival in 2021. Fujita has been invited to perform the same set of works, interspersed with sets of Variations, over five concerts for his debut at London’s Wigmore Hall at the end of the 22/23 season.

Starting piano lessons at the age of three, Fujita won his first international prize in 2010 at the World Classic in Taiwan, and became a laureate of numerous national and international competitions such as the Rosario Marciano International Piano Competition in Vienna (2013), Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians (2015), and the Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Piano Competition (2016).

Mao Fujita is moving to Berlin for further studies with Kirill Gerstein.

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