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Happy New Year. May this year be a peaceful one. Last year, I overhauled the site. Previously, I added articles sequentially via blog posts, but now I've set up a main page with several indexes. I think it's become a bit easier to navigate. 1. Beethoven's...

Emotional Expressiveness and the Subtle Art of Repeating a Theme

Shif's Lecture Recitals (Wigmore Hall, 2004-2006)

I revisited Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 26 to burn it onto the fourth CD. It's a piece connected to the Austrian War that erupted in Central Europe in 1809. The three movements depict Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven's pupil, fleeing Vienna to escape the war and returning home...

This piece, like No. 24, is a short piano sonata. It's famous as the "Cuckoo Sonata." In a letter to his publisher, Beethoven apparently specified that it should be titled "Sonatina" upon publication. Meaning, a small sonata. Piano Sonata...

Previously, in the notification about the version upgrade to SWAM v3.10, a physical modeling sound source for string instruments, the manufacturer stated that "IR (Impulse Response) has been introduced." However, upon checking the official Release Notes, the term IR is nowhere to be found, and instead...

　The physical sound sources I will be discussing here are Audio Modeling's SWAM Strings and Sample Modeling's Solo, Chamber & Ensemble Strings (hereafter referred to as SCES). 　In between playing Beethoven's Piano Sonata, I have been considering various ways to play strings...

　A friend who runs a small publishing company introduced me to her friend who teaches piano masterclasses at Morley College London in the UK. The article was so fascinating that I'd like to share it here. The article...

On the evolution of Beethoven's musical expression

　I burned my third CD.　This time it is two pieces, "Waldstein" and "Passion". 　These two pieces are also considered masterpieces, and it seems that a new piano, a French Erard, was used for composing them.　The range of the sound was widened and the width of the dynamics was increased, and the pi...