Pianist Shinnosuke Inugai approached this album with the goal of making the piano sound colorful, as if played by an orchestra, drawing on his experience playing with orchestras.
Performer Biography
Shinnosuke Inugai, the pianist on this album, is known for his exceptional gift for improvisation, often creating highlights in his live concerts by improvising on five notes thrown to him by the audience.
Performer Biography
Shinnosuke Inugai, born in Japan, performed for the Japanese Emperor in the Imperial Palace as the top student of his class at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo.
Recording & Production
The improvisations on this album by Shinnosuke Inugai were a new challenge as they were recorded in a studio without an audience, leading him to be guided by the piano itself, using only white or black keys, or sounds like a bell.
Compositional Technique
Robert Schumann's Three Romances, Op. 28, and Alexander Scriabin's Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28, are early examples of piano works that use an unusual third stave for the melody.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album explores how the piano, during the Romantic age, transcended its own sound to reproduce other instruments and entire ensembles, acting like a 'jukebox'.
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