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Nahoko Hayakawa Forte Piano Recital

The Story of Pleyel and Chopin vol.5 - Virtuoso Poem

2025/11/22(sa.) 16:30 Starting

Hyogo Performing Arts Center, Kobe College Small HallHyogo

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For this recital, Hayakawa will use the same model of fortepiano that Chopin owned and favored, a Pleyel made in 1845 from the same era. Hayakawa has been trying for the past few years to play completely according to Chopin's pedal symbols. This is something that is rarely done in modern piano or fortepiano playing, and it produces a very different nuanced effect. The results can be very different and controversial, especially in long passages or in performances where no pedal is indicated at all throughout the entire piece. Camille Saint-Saëns has remarked that "the pedal is frequently indicated in Chopin's works because he did not want it used when it was not indicated." Hayakawa has become convinced of this truth based on historical research he has been conducting since 2017 and on his own 1845 Pleyel, which he has played on the fortepiano since its reading.
In this recital, he will perform for the first time all 24 of Chopin's most famous exercises, op. 10 and op. 25. These are the virtuoso mainstays of Chopin's style and technique, and will show the audience how Chopin contrasted the use and non-use of the pedal to great expressive effect. In the famous "Etude de la Revolution," Chopin's pedal instruction is no pedal throughout, creating a very different sense of music from previous performance concepts, a dark, strong, and frightening stirring from the overtone-rich bass notes that are unique to Pleyel.
The moment when one's sense of values changes, which can be called a shock, by encountering a musical reproduction on an instrument that is very different from the one used by the composer today, is an artistic experience that leads one to a deeper reflection on our lives and civilization, and will become a fragrance and a light in a corner of our bloated, mechanized and uniform modern society. It will be a fragrance and a light in a corner of our bloated, mechanized, and homogenized society. We hope you will enjoy it. Richard Dias(Music Director)

Program

  • Etudes, Op.10 All

    Chopin

  • Etudes, Op.25 All

    Chopin

All Chopin Program - Virtuoso Poems

Performer

  • Nahoko Hayakawa

    fortepiano

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