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| "From Afar" | ||||||||||||||||||
| Yumiko's new CD featuring the best of contemporary Japanese solo piano works | ||||||||||||||||||
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| "When I first started playing these pieces, something in them spoke quietly to my soul. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| The more I played them, the more I listened to that voice. I grew up in Japan playing Bach, Beethoven, Chopin... not paying much attention to the composers around me. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Now, far away in another country, these works have found me. Their beauty takes me back but at the same time takes me forward to a new, richer, identity." | ||||||||||||||||||