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Junichi Ito

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[Volume 1 of the Complete Chopin Piano Solo Works Recording Project by Junichi Ito, the Poet of the Piano]This is the first volume of The Chopin Cycle, a long-term project spanning approximately eight years by pianist Junichi Itowinner of first prize at the Japan Chopin Piano Competition, recipient of the Japan Chopin Association Award, and a prize winner at numerous other international competitionsto record Chopins complete solo piano works.Over the past eight years, Ito has honed his craft in France at institutions such as the Paris Conservatoire National Suprieur de Musique, the Lyon Conservatoire National Suprieur de Musique, and the cole Normale de Musique de Paris. He has earned high acclaim for his deeply moving music, rooted in the mainstream European musical tradition, and for his orthodox technique that eschews gimmicks.The way the melodies breathe naturally, as if they were human voic