Various Composers - My Music Garden (Masako Ohta)

Information

1. John Cage - In a Landscape
2. Johannes Brahms - Intermezzo A-Dur, Op. 118 No. 2
3. Claude Debussy - Clair De Lune
4. Franz Schubert - Impromptu Ges-Dur, Op. 90 No. 3
5. Mamoru Fujieda - Patterns of Plants: The 26th Collection »Tea Patterns«: Pattern B »Yabe«
6. Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne, Op. 55 No.1 in F Minor
7. Toshio Hosokawa - Souvenir from Japan - Sakura for Piano
8. Fumio Yasuda - Rain Choral
9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Fantasie D-Moll KV 397 (385G)
10. Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Extemporale: Präludium

Masako Ohta, piano

Date: 2025

Label: Winter & Winter

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Masako Ohta’s album My Music Garden takes its inspiration from a haiku by Matsuo Bashō, evoking moonlight and flowers as a guiding poetic image. The program opens with John Cage’s In a Landscape and moves seamlessly through works by Debussy and Brahms, alongside contemporary Japanese compositions by Mamoru Fujieda, Fumio Yasuda, and Toshio Hosokawa. Ohta interweaves these with classical repertoire by Schubert, Mozart, Chopin, and Zimmermann, creating a thoughtfully curated dialogue between Western classical traditions and modern Japanese music. The result is a refined and contemplative sound world marked by delicacy, balance, and poetic resonance.

Tokyo-born pianist and composer Masako Ohta is active across classical and contemporary music, improvisation, film scoring, and interdisciplinary performance. Based in Europe, she has received numerous awards, including Munich’s Advancement Award for Music and the Giesing Culture Prize. Her work bridges Japanese and Western artistic traditions and has been presented at major international festivals and theaters. Ohta’s discography—widely broadcast and critically acclaimed—includes solo and collaborative albums released on Winter & Winter and Squama, earning honors such as the German Record Critics’ Award and a German Jazz Award nomination. She studied piano in Tokyo and Berlin with distinguished teachers.

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