Schubert Impromptus and Song Transcriptions Tamayo Ikeda

• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Ständchen, S. 560/7:
• 1 Schubert: Ständchen, S. 560/7: Schwanengesang No. 4 (arranged by Franz Liszt for solo piano) 05:46
• Der Lindenbaum, S. 561/7:
• 2 Schubert: Der Lindenbaum, S. 561/7: Winterreise No. 5 (arranged by Franz Liszt for solo piano) 05:10
• Wasserflut, S. 561/6:
• 3 Schubert: Wasserflut, S. 561/6: Winterreise No. 6 (arranged by Franz Liszt for solo piano) 02:35
• Wohin? Müllerlieder von Franz Schubert, S.565/5:
• 4 Schubert: Wohin? Müllerlieder von Franz Schubert, S.565/5: Die schöne Müllerin, No. 2 (arranged by Franz Liszt for solo piano) 03:12
• Die Müller und der Bach, Müllerlieder von Franz Schubert, S.565/2:
• 5 Schubert: Die Müller und der Bach, Müllerlieder von Franz Schubert, S.565/2: Die schöne Müllerin, No. 19 05:34
• Ave Maria: 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, No. 12, S. 558/12:
• 6 Schubert: Ave Maria: 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, No. 12, S. 558/12 (arranged by Franz Liszt for solo piano) 05:59
• Impromptu No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 90, D. 899:
• 7 Schubert: Impromptu No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 90, D. 899: Allegro molto moderato 10:16
• 8 Schubert: Impromptu No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 90, D. 899: Allegro 04:32
• 9 Schubert: Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat Major, Op. 90, D. 899: Andante 06:25
• 10 Schubert: Impromptu No. 4 in A-flat Major, Op. 90, D. 899: Allegretto 07:39
• Auf dem Wasser zu Singen: 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, S. 558/2:
• 11 Schubert: Auf dem Wasser zu Singen: 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, S. 558/2 (arranged by Franz Liszt for solo piano) 05:00
• Der Erlkönig:
• 12 Schubert: Der Erlkönig: 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, S. 558/4 (arranged by Franz Liszt for solo piano) 04:58
• Meeres Stille:
• 13 Schubert: Meeres Stille: 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, S. 558/5 (arranged by Franz Liszt for solo piano) 02:55
• Die Forelle:
• 14 Schubert: Die Forelle: 6 Melodien von Franz Schubert, S. 563/6 (arranged by Franz Liszt for solo piano) 03:07
• Total Runtime 01:13:08

Info for Schubert Impromptus and Song Transcriptions

Japanese pianist Tamayo Ikeda released her album of Schubert Lieder in their virtuosic solo arragements by Franz Liszt, alongside Schubert's Impromptus D. 899.

One could tell Tamayo Ikeda’s story of the Japanese childhood of a precocious little girl, the arrival in Paris at the age of eighteen, to study and then for life. One could make a long list of her successes, medals, prizes, evoke her career, the Ykeda duo...

However, the essential question would not have been answered: where is she when she plays? In what space out of time and the world evolves this singular artist whose music is the true mother tongue?

I asked myself this question the very first time Tamayo Ikeda came to play on France Musique at my invitation. With Schubert, she was obviously at home, as it is true that there are two kinds of musicians: those who naturally speak the language of Schubert and others. But what is the “home” of a musician who juggles with extremes? Precision and fantasy, delicacy and passion, elegance and taste for risk.

This Schubert-Liszt programme, between the intimacy of the one and the flamboyance of the other, will perhaps offer a beginning of an answer... (Arièle Butaux, Writer, Artistic Director)

"After my tumultuous life and the pandemic, and without being able to play in front of an audience for a long time, I needed Schubert’s music terribly. His music consoled me with its sincerity. As I cannot sing, I made my piano sing.’ This is how many people feel in the waning days of COVID – we need a bit of consolation, a bit of excitement, but, above all, sincerity." (Maureen Buja, Interlude)

"Ikeda plays all with great sensitivity to the vocal line, which is in keeping with Liszt’s design. Schubert’s often repetitious piano accompaniments become wonderfully varied in many of Liszt’s transcriptions and Ikeda lets the melodies float around the figurations perfectly." (Fanfare)

Tamayo Ikeda, piano

Tamayo Ikeda
Born in 1971 in Japan, Tamayo IKEDA began her musical studies at the age of three. She joined ‘Toho Gakuen’ in Tokyo before being admitted to the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in 1989. She obtained two First Prizes in piano and chamber music disciplines before joining the advanced cycle.

A scholarship holder of the A.P.E.F. and Société Générale, she received valuable advice from masters such as Dimitri Bashkirov, Halina Czerny-Stefanska, and Léon Fleisher.

Her intuitive and passionate playing was rewarded with a Second Prize and the Special Claude Debussy Prize at the Yvonne Lefébure International Competition (no first prize awarded), a Special Prize (Claude Debussy) at the Porto International Competition, and the First Prize at the Francis Poulenc International Competition in 1999 (as well as the Special Casadessus Prize).

Tamayo IKEDA has performed in Europe, Norway, Finland, Japan, Indonesia, South Africa, and the United States in prestigious venues such as Hamarikyu Hall (Tokyo) or Carnegie Hall (New York). She regularly appears on the airwaves of France-Musique and particularly with the greatest soloists or conductors such as Gérard Poulet, Régis Pasquier, Roland Daugareil, Naoto Otomo, Dominique de Williencourt, etc.

Her discography includes a recording of works by Poulenc and Fauré. She also recorded a DVD dedicated to the works of Ravel and Stravinsky in piano four hands with the Duo YKEDA. With the latter, she recorded a Schubert disc (Warner Music) released in June 2009, and a Piano Dance disc (Harmonia Mundi) released in 2015, unanimously acclaimed by critics. Her disc dedicated to the works of Schubert-Liszt released at the end of 2022 was praised by international critics and selected among the best CDs of the year in Canada by the Textura review. She just recorded a Fauré Chopin disc on the 1905 Pleyel Piano with double escapement from the Balleron Collection restored by Sylvie Fouanon, released in October 2024 in Japan with King Records and internationally with Ulysses Arts.

She is one of the founders of the “ Musiques Festiv’ ” Festival in Entre-Deux-Mers (Gironde) and Yokohama (2006). She is also artistic director of Cercle Âme du Japon, the Paris branch of the Kyoto-based Japonisme promotion association, and organises concerts at the Villa de la Princesse de Polignac (Venice), the Banque de France and the Guimet Museum of Oriental Art (Paris). For her contribution to Japanese culture, she was selected by the Association Franco-Japonaise des Journalistes, together with Kengo Kuma and others, as one of the ‘30 people representing Japan in France’.

After teaching at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montpellier and the École Normale de Musique (Cortot), she has been a jury member of international competitions and holds the French national teaching qualification, CA, and currently is a tenured professor at Conservatoires de la Ville de Paris.

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