David Tudor verglichen wurde. Die fünf Tracks sind laut Label “intricately crafted compositions, each a testament to Ogura’s musical brilliance, delivered with her signature delicacy, precision, and soulfulness”. Das Album wurde auf einem Fazioli F212-Flügel im Studio Epidemin in Göteborg aufgenommen. Es erscheint digital und in einer limitierten CD-Edition im Digi-Sleeve und mit einem Booklet mit aufschlussreichen Linernotes von Pianistenkollege Jonas Olsson, der auch einige von Oguras Arbeiten aufgeführt hat. Der Track “Pas” ist schon streambar.

“Pianist and composer Miharu Ogura (b.1996) began her piano studies at age 3 and has been interested in complex rhythms and atonal elements since childhood. At 19 years old, Miharu learned of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen while participating in a masterclass focused on the Klavierstücke held by Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich in Munich. After this experience, she took every possible opportunity to learn a new Klavierstück. In 2017 she participated in the Stockhausen Courses in Kürten. Following her successful performance of Mantra in 2018, she made her first attempt to play Klavierstücke I–XI in Tokyo, Japan, in 2021. Later the same year, she performed the pieces at the MONOPIANO festival in Stockholm, Sweden – the same performance that’s featured on this album.

Miharu was born in Tokyo, where she also graduated from Toho Gakuen College. She’s currently based in Frankfurt, Germany and performs in a variety of music scenes as a soloist and ensemble performer”. (Thanatosis)