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Kazune Shimizu

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Kazune Shimizus 30th Anniversary Debut Album. Liszt: Piano Sonatas!In 2011, Kazune Shimizu celebrated the 30th anniversary of her debut. A pianist who is, in both name and reality, one of Japans leading artists, she has finally recorded Liszts piano sonatasworks that demand the highest levels of expressiveness, structural integrity, and every musical element among Romantic piano sonatas. Even among Liszts workswhich are often perceived as overly technicalthese sonatas demand exceptionally high technical skill. Shimizus performance, however, transcends that level, channeling all her technical prowess into the beauty of Liszts music. Her harmonic expression, grounded in a deep understanding of the musical structure, the beauty of the pianissimo in the recitative, the clear articulation of voices in the fugue, and his uniquely clear toneone of Shimizus charms, dynamic yet never strainingall come