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Akiko Suwanai ㅣ Violin
Akiko Suwanai performs on the Stradivarius ‘Dolphin' violin from 1714, one of the most famous violins known today and previously owned by Jascha Heifetz, which has been kindly loaned to her by the Nippon Music Foundation.
Yoko Kaneko ㅣ Piano
Following her studies in two of the most famous institutions of advanced musical study, first at the Toho Gakuen school in Tokyo, then at the French National Conservatoire (CNSM) in Paris, Yoko Kaneko is now recognized as a musical artist and virtuoso who is both an accomplished pianist and player of the fortepiano. She is considered today as one of the most sensitive artists of her generation. She has appeared throughout her career with the most distinguished, internationally recognized, musicians.
Her determination to discover the quintessence of each work so as to obtain a truly valid interpretation, taking account of the specific style of each different composer, has led her to study with several great masters of music. Her teachers have included Germaine Mounier, Michel Béroff and Yvonne Loriot-Messiaen for the piano, and Jean Mouillère, Menahem Pressler, Jean Hubeau and György Kurtag for chamber music. Her encounters with two of her predecessors, Masahiro Arita and Jos van Immerseel, both experts on authentic performance styles, have had a decisive influence on her musical development.
A enthusiastic performer of chamber music, especially the lesser known repertoire, she has made six records with the Gabriel Piano Quartet, which include works by Guillaume Lekeu, Reynaldo Hahn and Antonin Dvorak, as well as Camille Saint-Saëns and Joseph Jongen. Works by Gabriel Fauré and Ernest Chausson, have been issued by MA Recordings.
As a player of the fortepiano, Yoko Kaneko has recorded the Mozart two-piano concerto with Jos van Immerseel, as well as pieces by Johann Benjamin Gross with the baroque cellist Christophe Coin. She has also recorded the Beethoven sonatas for piano alone, as well as “Works of the Golden Age” by Mozart and “Partitas nr.4 & nr.5, French Suite nr.5” by J.S.Bach also for MA Recordings.
Her recordings have achieved recognition from the most authoritative publications, and have received notably a “Choc” from the “Monde de la Musique”
magazine, a “Grand Prix” from the “Nouvelle Académie du Disque”, a “Diapason d'Or”, the “Prix d'Arte”, the “Editor's Choice” and a “Record of the Month” from the British magazine “The Gramophone”. She has also received a “Prelude Classical Award” in Holland, and a “Geijutsu-Records Prize” in Japan.
In recent years, she has attempted to unify the concerto performance style with the spirit of chamber music, so as to integrate the soloist as completely as possible in the orchestral ensemble. This approach has enjoyed great public success in performances of concerti by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven with the “Anima Eterna” Orchestra of Bruges, the “Toulouse Chamber Orchestra” and the English “Haydn Orchestra”.
Since 2009, she has been giving Master-classes at the Conservatoire of Senzoku Gakuen , Tokyo. She teaches chamber music and forte-piano at the Château de La Roche Guyon, France.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2 in A Major, Op.12/2
Allegro vivace
Andante più tosto Allegretto
Allegro piacevole
Sonata for Violin and Piano No.5 in F Major, ‘Spring', Op.24
Allegro
Adagio molto espressivo
Scherzo. Allegro molto
Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo
INTERMISSION
Sonata for Violin and Piano No.6 in A Major, Op.30/1
Allegro
Adagio
Allegretto con Variazioni
Sonata for Violin and Piano No.8 in G Major, Op.30/3
Allegro assai
Tempo di Minuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso
Allegro vivace