my CDs

 

The informations for other CDs will be announced soon :-)

New CD :-)

Frédéric Chopin

1. Nocturne Op. 9-2, Es-Dur

2. Prélude Op.28-15, Des-Dur

3. Scherzo Op.31, b-moll

4. Alexander Scriabin

Étude Op.2-1, cis-moll

5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Sonata „facile“ KV545, C-Dur (1st Movement)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Sonata „Pathétique“ No. 8,  c-moll, Op. 13

6. I. Grave – Allegro di molto e con brio

7. II. Adagio cantabile

8. III. Rondo: Allegro

9. Frédéric Chopin

Prélude Op.28-No.4, h-moll

10. Franz Liszt

Liebestraum No. 3, As-Dur

Junko Yamamoto Piano

℗&© 2019 Junko Yamamoto

recorded January 2019 in studio himmelschütte

recording, mix & mastering: Oliver Frick

cover photo: Jumpei Tainaka

cover design/layout:  Emi Nishimura

new CD will come soon :-)

Pulse of Europe / my essay No.11 for japanese Newspaper

 On last Sunday I joined the meeting "Pulse of Europe".

 (↓ from the Website of Pulse of Europe)

There has been an alarming increase of radicalization in political life. After the vote for Brexit and the election of Trump, however, we must not remain in shock. There are going to be held presidential elections in the Netherlands on 15 March 2017, in France on 23 April 2017, and in the autumn of 2017 the Bundestag election will take place.

Our aim and contribution

We are convinced that the majority of people believe in the fundamental idea of the European Union and its reformability and development and does not want to sacrifice it to nationalist tendencies.  Nothing less than the protection of an alliance, which secures peace and guarantees individual freedom, justice and legal security are at stake.

Unfortunately, mostly negative and destructive voices are heard in public!

Therefore: Let us become louder and more visible!  We all must now send out positive energy against current tendencies. The European pulse must be felt everywhere!

Everyone is responsible for the failure or the success of our future, no one can make excuses. To hope, everything will go well, is not enough and even dangerous.

Now, before the elections, is the right time to do one´s best – with as many people as possible, and in as many places as possible.

We have a big goal: to gather as many people as possible in Europe, who stand for Europe, and are able to support pro- European forces after the elections. Thus we can form a human chain all across Europe connecting Germany, France and the Netherlands.

 Here is my contribution for a japanese newspaper ↓

Hello my favorite Poet BASHÔ ^-^ / Moonlight Sonata Beethoven

月いづく鐘は沈める海の底

where is the full moon?
the war bell has sunk
to the bottom of the sea 


↑ a fantastic poem by BASHÔ 
wonderful lyricism
contrast sky and sea
Silence in the heaven and ocean

When I play "Moonlight Sonata" by Ludwig van Beethoven, the music remind me this beautiful poem.  

My "pappiness"-time with wonderful music and image of the poem.

You can listen a part of my performance  of Moonlight Sonata :-)
Please click this link :-) 

Moonlight Sonata / Beethoven