Nobuyuki Tsujii, Piano

Nobuyuki Tsujii performs music by three of the piano’s greatest composers. The instrument takes full flight at the start of Beethoven’s “Waldstein” Sonata, a virtuosic piece from the composer’s heroic era. We then hear the first (and most popular) of Liszt’s Mephistowaltzes, evoking an ecstatic dance sequence through the woods. To round out the program, Tsujii performs two of Chopin’s most alluring nocturnes, followed by the exceptionally challen...