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Stefan Hussong

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Yumiko Meguri and Stefan HussongWorks by Keiko Harada, played by two outstanding musiciansA collection of works by the Japanese composer Keiko Harada, all of them shaped by an acute awareness of Fukushima. The performers are the world-renowned accordionist Stefan Hussong and the pianist Yumiko Meguri.F. Fragments received its world premiere on 3 November 2012. Harada herself has written that she “tried, in a state of heightened, conscious wakefulness, to commit to memory in these eleven fragmentary movements people I have never met, places I have never been, and the time that passed there.” Piano and accordion sound together in extreme concentration, tracing sounds inscribed with the events and figures surrounding Fukushima.BOOK I (for accordion) was commissioned for, and given its world premiere at, the gala concert marking the 20th anniversary of the Akutagawa Award for Music Composition at