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On May 27th, SONY Music releases a charity CD for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. All artists have relinquished their royalties to be donated to the Japanese Red Cross. You can hear Yu Kosuge playing "Song without words" by Mendelssohn on this album.
Classic Stars for Japan http://www.sonymusic.de/Various/Classic-Stars-For-Japan/P/2536171
The concerts of Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-juku has been cancelled: http://www.ongaku-juku.com/e/
On Dec. 21st at 9pm on NDR Kultur a recording on Dec. 3rd in broadcasting centre of NDR in Hamburg will be broadcasted
Details on http://www.ndr.de/ndrkultur/programm/sendungen/welt_der_musik/foyerkonzertkosuge101.html
On 28th July Yu Kosuge stepped in at the Salzburg Festival for Ivo Pogorelich, who was taken ill.
(Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 with Maestro Philippe Herreweghe / Camerata Salzburg)
The concert will be broadcasted on August 22nd at 11:03AM on Ö1:
Details on http://oe1.orf.at/programm/253911
© Wolfgang Lienbacher
critics:
Salzburger Nachrichten
Drehpunkt Kultur
Der Standard
Die Presse
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Yu Kosuge on January 31st (between 9:45am ~ 2pm) on arte TV:
Concert at "La Folle Journee de Nantes" of Jan. 29th, 2010
Jacek Kaspszyk / Sinfonia Varsovia, Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in g
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Highlights 2009/10 season:
- Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto with Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Jacek Kaspszyk in Katowice (Oct. 2009)
- Debut in Moscow: Piano Concerto No. 2 by Chopin with Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Sanderling in Tschaikowsky Concert Hall (Oct. 2009)
- Release of the CD of Mendelssohn's first piano concerto with Mito Chamber Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa and selections from Songs Without Words by SONY (September 2009)
- Piano Concerto K. 595 by Mozart with Radiophilharmonie des NDR Hannover / Eiji Oue in Hannover, NDR-Funkhaus, Grosser Sendesaal (Feb. 2010)
- Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto with Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra / Eliahu Inbal (March 2010)
- Quartett tour with Daishin Kashimoto (Violin), Yoshiko Kawamoto (Viola) and Jing Zhao (Cello)