Yuki Matsuzawa
Yuki Matsuzawa (松澤 ゆき[1], Matsuzawa Yuki, born 1960 in Tokyo) is a Japanese pianist.
Matsuzawa is a pupil of Akiko Iguchi and Hiroshi Tamura at the Tokyo University of the Arts. She subsequently studied with Vladimir Ashkenazy. Matsuzawa was a semifinalist in the 1983 Queen Elisabeth Competition.[2]
Ms Matsuzawa's recording of the Chopin's Études was the basis for one of the many plagiarised recordings issued under the name of Joyce Hatto.[3] This plagiarised recording was hailed by the critic Ateş Orga as …an extraordinary feat, poetically strong and frequently electrifying. Even (huskily) vocal. Here we have an artist at full throttle, high on adrenalin, technique gleaming, commanding a Rolls-Royce of an instrument firing on all cylinders..[4] Reviewing the original recordings for the magazine Gramophone, Harriet Smith summed them up as a very impressive achievement.[5] In his 2023 review for Gramophone of the best recordings of Chopin's etudes, the critic Jed Distler wrote, "As for Matsuzawa, what’s not to love? You’ve got perfect fingerwork, fluent phrasing, impeccable timing, imaginative pedalling and discreetly novel voicings. There are no dead spots, no miscalculated tempos and no expressive tics. In other words, ‘Joyce Hatto’ at her best!"[6] While Matsuzawa's recording of the etudes is out-of-print, Distler noted it is still available for download on Novalis.
The critic 'LS', reviewing her debut recording of Scriabin in Gramophone, summed her up as the most exciting newcomer this year to the record catalogue.[7]
Sources
[edit]- International Who's Who in Classical Music (ISBN 185743174X, 9781857431742)
References
[edit]- ^ "第41～50回 | 日本音楽コンクール".
- ^ "Yuki Matsuzawa". queenelisabethcompetition.be (in French). Retrieved 2024-12-27.
- ^ Farhan Malik's page on the plagiarised Etudes
- ^ Ates Orga's reviews of the Hatto recordings, including the Matsuzawa Etudes
- ^ Harriet Smith's review in Gramophone, March 1998, Page 114 (Free registration required)
- ^ "Chopin's Études: a deep dive into the best recordings". Gramophone. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
- ^ Gramophone June 1994, Page 88
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