in Piano International (Sep, 2015)
Nobiyuki Tsujii is remarkable. Blind from birth and joint winner in the 2009 Van Cliburn Competition, Tsujii (born 1988) is also a composer: there are two performances here of his touching Elegy for the Victims of the Earthquake and Tsunami of March 11, 2011 – played in each case as an encore.
Tsujii seems fearless (in the Cliburn Competition he elected to play Beethoven’s Hammerklavier). The performance of the Tchaikovsky first concerto, delivered in a terrific recording, is astonishing. Emotionally wide-ranging, Tsujii negotiates Tchaikovsky’s fearsome difficulties with ease. Yet actually, the strength of his performance is in its diversity. He has the muscular approach, but he can also melt the …
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