Credits:

Shigehiko Kawaguchi

Description:

This is the third solo album by fortepiano player Shigehiko Kawaguchi, who shot to fame after winning second place at the 1st International Chopin Period Instrument Competition held in Warsaw in 2018. This album brings together lesser-known Spanish works that he deeply loves and has dedicated himself to as his lifes work in his concerts to date. Spanning the era of Domenico Scarlatti (16851757)an Italian who spent half his life active in Spainand Antonio Soler (17291783), to the emergence of Isaac Albniz (18601909), who left behind the masterpiece *Iberia*a span of roughly 100 years during which the history of Spanish keyboard music appears to have seen few major developments. In reality, however, a wealth of wonderful music was created during this period that allows us to sense the daily lives and very breath of the people of that time. One of the artists who lived during precisely that