The blind up-and-coming Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii – an astonishing virtuoso on his instrument performs with the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. In 2009 he hit the Top Ten of the Japanese Charts with his first album “début”. He also won the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009.
At the White Nights Festival he played works by the Russian composers Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich. Here he plays Tchaikovsky's famous Piano Concerto No. 1.
As a bonus Nobuyuki Tsujii performs his own Elegy for the Victims of the Tsunami of March 2011, a stirring and moving piece dedicated to his home country Japan.
This performance also includes Shostakovich Symphony No. 14.
With Nobuyuki Tsujii piano Olga Sergeyeva soprano Yuri Vorobiev bass Valery Gergiev conductor and many others.
Live recording from the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, 8 July 2012.
Mariinksy Theatre Orchestra, 8 July 2012
Valery Gergiev
