''Classic Encounters'' is a 2010 recording by jazz pianist
Toshiko Akiyoshi with Reiko Honshoh.
Track listing
# "''Toshiko's March''" – "Alla Turca: Allegretto in A minor" /
Piano Sonata No. 11 (
Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his ra ...
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# "2 Part Invention" –
Inventions and Sinfonias, No. 4 in D Minor (
Bach)
# "
Nocturnes, Op. 9, Nr. 2 (
Chopin)
# "''Joking with Beethoven''" – "
Piano Sonata Nr. 23" (
Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...
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# "Arab Dance" –
The Nutcracker
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(
Tchaikovsky)
# "
Solveig's Song" –
Peer Gynt
''Peer Gynt'' (, ) is a five- act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen published in 1876. Written in Norwegian, it is one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays. Ibsen believed ''Per Gynt'', the Norwegian fairy tale on wh ...
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Grieg)
# "''The Dance of Genji Ladies''" – "
Pavane" (
Fauré)
#
"Put on the Costume" "On with the Motley" (
Leoncavallo
Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo ( , , ; 23 April 18579 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Although he produced numerous operas and other songs throughout his career it is his opera ''Pagliacci'' (1892) that remained his ...
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Personnel
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Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
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Reiko Honshoh – piano
References
*Studio Songs YZSO-10012
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Toshiko Akiyoshi albums
2010 albums