Yasuji Takada, harpsichord
Satoshi Sumi, baroque cello

J.S.Bach: Sonata for viola da gamba
J.S.Bach: Suite for Unaccompanied Cello
J.S.Bach: Toccata in C minor, BWV911
W.F.Bach: Fantasy in E minor Falck21
C.P.E. Bach: Württemberg Sonata Wq49-6

 

Cembalo: Taiji Takada

 

Lives in Germany and made her debut in 2003 with the Telemann Chamber Orchestra at the Kobe Shimbun Matsukata Hall, performing a concerto for piano, fortepiano and harpsichord all in one evening.
As a harpsichordist, he gave a harpsichord concert in Remagen, Germany in January 2009, which was highly acclaimed by the local newspaper, which said, "He played a wonderful tone" and "He has a very broad range of technique. After returning to Japan, he performed J.S. Bach's "Goltberg Variations" in Osaka. Takada was acclaimed as "a composer who, while using 'ancient' instruments as a medium, has stripped away all emotion and even rubato, opening up a new view of the Goltberg" ("Ongaku no Tomo" May 2009 issue). In September 2009, he performed an all-J.S. Bach program at the subscription concert of the Telemann Society of Japan in Tokyo, and was praised for his "musically pleasing flow and crisp passage work, which showed off Takada's keen sense" (Ongaku no Tomo, November 2009). In July 2010, Takada performed J.S. Bach's "Goltberg Variations" at the subscription concert of the Telemann Society of Japan in Tokyo. In May 2011, he was invited to the subscription concert of the "Bach Archiv" in Leipzig, Germany, where he performed J.S. Bach's "Partita No. 2" and "English Suite No. 2," etc. He was the first Japanese keyboard player to perform in the All Bach concert in Tokyo. He was the first Japanese keyboardist to perform with the group. A CD containing the pieces performed at the concert was released in October (Nami Records).
In 2009, he performed Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 at the subscription concert of the Telemann Society of Japan, and in 2010, he performed Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 12 on NHK's "Classical Club". In 2010, he performed Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 12 on the fortepiano on NHK's "Classic Club," which became a topic of conversation. In April of the same year, he began a series of performances of Mozart's complete piano concertos for one pianist over a span of three years (completed in 2012). The series attracted nationwide attention.
Currently he forms a duo with U. Bundesse on baroque violin and is also performing in Germany. She studied fortepiano and harpsichord with C. Schornsheim. In April 2013, she released a duo CD with U. Bundys. He was awarded the 2011 Tokitada Sakai Music Prize, and in 2014 he gave a successful performance of Beethoven's complete piano concertos (3 nights) at the Nakanoshima Central Public Hall (Osaka, Japan) In 2015, he released his second duo and fortepiano album with U. Bundys, and in 2016, his four classical keyboard instrumental " Utsuroi" was released. In 2018, his CD "Beethoven Album" with original fortepiano by J.G. Graeber was recommended by "Record Geijutsu" magazine (August 2018 issue). 2018 Music Critic's Club Award Incentive Prize. Awarded the Cultural Encouragement Prize of Kobe City in 2020.

 

 

Baroque cello: Satoshi Sumi

 

Principal cellist of the Telemann Chamber Orchestra.
He performed Bach's "Suite for Unaccompanied Cello" at Mint Terrace in Kobe in February 2020 and February 2021, and said, "It is wonderful that he can create a space of sound appropriate for the Baroque with a single stroke, and that he is able to capture it instinctively. (Ongaku no Tomo magazine, April 2020) and "Especially in the fast-tempo dances, he creates a natural flow of the music horizontally, and (omission) skillfully draws out the expansion and contraction of the music and the pleasure that lies beyond it. （In April 2021, she performed Beethoven's "Triple Concerto" solo at the 277th subscription concert in Osaka, and was praised for "the deep, thick, and desperate tone of the cello in particular" (Ongaku no Tomo magazine, June 2021 issue). In October 2021, she performed Bach's "Viola da gamba sonata" in duo with Taiji Takada, a soloist of the Nippon Telemann Society, at Mint Terrace in Kobe, and in 2022, she performed Bach's "Suite for Solo Cello" at the 285th subscription concert of the Nippon Telemann Society at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. In August of the same year, he traveled to Germany to give a public performance in Remagen, where he performed Bach's Cello Suites and other works.
After graduating from the Kyoto City University of Arts with a Bachelor of Music, he completed his Master's degree in Music at the same university. He has studied cello with Kaeko Mukaiyama, Noboru Kamimura, Hiroshi Hayashi, and Goichiro Ogawa, chamber music with Shohei Kamimori, and baroque cello technique and repertoire with D.Pöhl-Palm. Studied the language of baroque music under Takeharu Nobuhara.