New Year's Day, 2026
Happy New Year. May this year be a peaceful one. Last year, we overhauled the site. Previously, we had been updating the blog [...]
Happy New Year. May this year be a peaceful one. Last year, we overhauled the site. Previously, we had been updating the blog [...]
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. In 1809, a conflict erupted in Central Europe [...]
This piano sonata, like No. 24, is also a short piece. It's famous as the Cuckoo Sonata. Beethoven submitted it to the publisher [...]
Previously, in the notification regarding the version upgrade to SWAM v3.10, a physical modeling sound source for string instruments, it stated "IR (Impu [...]
The physical sound sources discussed here are Audio Modeling's SWAM Strings and Sample Mod [...].
A friend of mine, who runs a small publishing company, told me that he was going to study at Morley College London in the U.K. to [...]
On the evolution of Beethoven's musical expression
I burned my third CD。 This time it's "Waldstein" and "Fever "。 These two songs are also considered masterpieces [...].