Credits:

Ikuyo Nakamichi

Description:

This work portrays the concept of eternity as embodied by each composer in their Preludes.Debussy sees eternity by capturing a single moment.For Rachmaninoff, eternity lies in the continuity.The form of eternity inherent in the genre of the prelude, as discovered by Ikuyo Nakamichi.The Road to 2027, a project Ikuyo Nakamichi has been pursuing since 2018 over the course of a decade, is a grand endeavor that traverses the history of piano musicfrom Bach to Schoenbergfollowing a unique theme established for each performance. This live recording was made in October 2022at the projects midpointduring a concert themed Preludes: Signs of Eternity.This album allows listeners to hear the results of two composers with distinct personalities tackling the preludea form whose expressive possibilities were expanded by Chopinusing entirely different approaches.The 12 preludes in Debussys *Preludes, Book 2*