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Yoichi Tajiri

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The eagerly awaited second volume in the live recording series from the uncompromising pianist Yoichi Tajiri.A newly unearthed performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”, coupled with previously issued overtures.Released following meticulous remastering.After graduating from the Toho Gakuen School of Music, Yoichi Tajiri went on to study as the only pupil of Idil Biret. Since 1996 he has pursued a distinctive path built around complete cycles devoted to individual composers, and from 2000 onwards he has incorporated his own solo arrangements of orchestral works into his programmes, establishing a genre of his own.Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” and the Coriolan and Egmont overtures presented here were recorded live during Tajiri’s cycle of the complete Beethoven symphonies given between 2011 and 2012. The Third Symphony appears here for the first time, while the overtures use the s