Masamasa Kusano Piano Recital

The name Masamasa Kusano is aptly titled "Who is that person? It is not surprising that they would respond in this way. It is not surprising that they would respond in this way. The last time he gave a recital at a medium-sized music hall in the Tokyo metropolitan area was more than 20 years ago.
However, listening to the private recordings that remain, I feel that she should not be forgotten. In the past few decades, the pursuit of "playing faithfully to the score" and "following the composer's intentions" has resulted in the dilution of the pianist's individuality, but he gave priority to expressing "what he felt when he read the score. Therefore, he does not resemble anyone of today, and, if I may venture to say so, he has something in common with pianists born between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. It is probably not unrelated to the fact that he loved to listen to SP records that had been in his house since he was a child, and it would be meaningless to describe his profile, including his graduation from Toho Gakuen School of Music and the history of his teachers.
When he was young, he played the concertos of Tchaikovsky and Liszt with such vigor that he was literally astonished. When I listen to recordings of his solo virtuoso pieces such as Liszt's Sonata, Liszt's Tannhäuser Overture, and Godowsky's Life of an Artist, I feel that he played them at least as well as the most famous pianists of the time. It is a wonder that such a performance was not talked about more in the world of music. Although we cannot hear such works played live nowadays, there is a rich emotion that replaces them. If I write "nostalgic and nostalgic," does that make a little sense?
He calls himself an "endangered species" and "leader of Japan's isolationist party," but in fact, it seems that opportunities to hear this style of performance live have almost disappeared. He is the last survivor of "pianist-like pianists," so he should not be forgotten.
Unfortunately, he is now moderately old, so there is no guarantee that we will have many more chances to hear him in the future. I would like you to listen to him this time first.