Turin, Italy 2013

April 8 Nobu performed at Auditorium Gianni Agnelli (photo right, below -- image via Internet link) in Turin, Italy, in a performance with conductor Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra.

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Excellent photos of Nobu's April 8 Turin performance posted in an album on the facebook page of Associazione Lingotto Musica .Please click "like" on the posting to express our gratitude.

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Lingotto Musica ‏@LingottoMusica 22 Mar tweet:

I #ConcertiDelLingotto tornano l'8 aprile con @ValeryGergiev, #NobuyukoTsujii e l'Orchestra del @mariinskyen http://www.lingottomusica.it/component/ohanah/orchestra-sinfonica-del-teatro-mariinskij-di-san-pietroburgo.html …

Lingotto Musica ‏@LingottoMusica 8 Apr tweet:

#SoldOut questa sera al #Lingotto @ValeryGergiev @mariinskyen e #NobuyukiTsujii.

Lingotto Musica ‏@LingottoMusica 9 Apr tweet:

Alcune foto del concerto di ieri sera al #Lingotto con #NobuyukiTsujii @ValeryGergiev e

April 5 Music April 5, 2013 13:43 News from Italy: Tutto esaurito per il ‘miracoloso’ Nobuyuki Tsujii Insieme a Valery Gergiev l’8 aprile a Torino Music April 5, 2013 13:43 (Source: ilVelino / AGV NEWS) Sold out for the 'miraculous' Nobuyuki Tsujii - Together with Valery Gergiev on April 8 in Turin.

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Tutto esaurito per il ‘miracoloso’ Nobuyuki Tsujii

Insieme a Valery Gergiev l’8 aprile a Torino

di com - 05 aprile 2013 13:43

fonte ilVelino/AGV NEWS

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‘Miracolo è l'unica parola per descriverlo. Questo è veramente un atto di Dio’. Con queste parole, nel 2009, il grande pianista americano Van Cliburn, scomparso il 27 febbraio 2013, salutava la vittoria al Concorso a lui dedicato del giovane pianista Nobuyuki Tsujii, giapponese, classe 1988, non vedente dalla nascita. Lunedì 8 aprile alle 20.30 Tsujii esordisce all’Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli insieme a Valery Gergiev, uno dei direttori d’orchestra più amati dal pubblico di Lingotto Musica e da vent’anni ai vertici del panorama musicale mondiale. Nel gennaio 2013 Gergiev è stato votato all’unanimità come successore di Lorin Maazel alla guida dei Münchner Philhamroniker (incarico che ricoprirà a partire dal 2015) e attualmente è Direttore principale della London Symphony Orchestra e Direttore artistico e generale del Teatro Mariinskij di San Pietroburgo con la cui Orchestra torna a Torino per il penultimo appuntamento della stagione 2012-2013 dei Concerti del Lingotto. Quasi interamente dedicato al grande repertorio russo è il programma del concerto. Fa eccezione l’Ouverture da La forza del destino che apre la serata, omaggio a Giuseppe Verdi nell’anno delle celebrazioni per il bicentenario della nascita. Segue di Čajkovskij una delle pagine più amate dell’intero repertorio classico-romantico, ben nota anche al di fuori della cerchia dell’abituale pubblico della musica colta: il Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra n. 1 in si bemolle minore op. 23, scritto tra il 1874 e il 1875 ed eseguito per la prima volta Boston nell’ottobre del 1875 dal celebre direttore e pianista Hans von Bülow. La serata si conclude con la Sinfonia n. 5 in re minore op. 47 di Dmitrij Šostakovič, opera scritta a Leningrado nel 1937 sullo sfondo di quel clima di epurazioni e processi sommari a personalità contrarie al regime che avevano toccato anche personaggi vicinissimi all’autore.

Music April 5, 2013 13:43 (Source: ilVelino / AGV NEWS, Rome)

Sold out for the 'miraculous' Nobuyuki Tsujii

Together with Valery Gergiev on April 8 in Turin

'Miracle is the only word to describe it. This is truly an act of God. ' With these words, the great American pianist Van Cliburn, who died February 27, 2013, hailed the victory in the 2009 competition named after him of the young pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, Japanese,who is blind from birth. Monday, April 8 at 20:30 Tsujii makes his debut at the Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli with Valery Gergiev, one of the conductors most beloved by the Lingotto Music public and twenty years at the top of the music world.

In January 2013 Gergiev was voted unanimously as successor to Lorin Maazel at the helm of the Munich Philhamroniker (a position he will play in 2015) and is currently Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director and general Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg whose Orchestra returns to Turin for the penultimate round of the season 2012-2013 Concert of Lingotto. Almost entirely devoted to the great Russian repertoire is the concert program. The exception is the Overture to La forza del destino, which opened the evening, a tribute to Giuseppe Verdi during the celebrations for the bicentenary of the birth. Follows Tchaikovsky's one of the most popular of the entire classic-romantic repertoire, well known even outside the circle of the usual audience of classical music: Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23, written between 1874 and 1875 and performed for the first time in Boston in October 1875 by the famous conductor and pianist Hans von Bülow. The evening ends with the Symphony no. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 by Dmitri Shostakovich, a work written in Leningrad in 1937 against the backdrop of the climate of purges and summary trials personality contrary to the regime that had touched even people close to the author.

http://www.russkiymir.ru/russkiymir/en/news/common/news9794.html <posting on Russkiy Mir Foundation website>

The Mariinsky Orchestra Sets off on Tour of Europe

Apr 5, 2013

The Mariinsky Orchestra’s tour under the baton of Valery Gergiev to cities in Monaco, France, Italy and Switzerland runs from 5 to 12 April and will pay tribute to the most important music anniversaries of the current year, the theater’s press service reports.

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The Italian leg of the tour kicks off with a concert in Turin on 8 April at the Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli. This relatively new concert venue, which has already won acclaim and renown, seats two thousand people; it was constructed on the former site of a Fiat car factory and named in honour of its founder and Honorary President. This time Valery Gergiev will be conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra in a programme of Russian and Italian works – the overture from the opera La forza del destino by Giuseppe Verdi, the two hundredth anniversary of whose birth is being widely celebrated this year in the music world, Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto (Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii performing the solo) and Dmitry Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. ...

http://www.musicaprogetto.org/2013/04/gergiev-tsujii-e-lorchestra-del-teatro.html Another mentioning of the concert, with a photo of Nobu -

In the already "sold out" concert Monday, April 8, 2013 at 20:30 at the Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, we will see on stage pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, Japanese, born in 1988, who is blind from birth, whom the great Van Cliburn called "Miracle is the only word to describe him."<This appears to be a site about classical concerts in Italy - two other concerts but the Gergiev/Nobu concert is the only one mentioned as “sold out”

April 10 The Associazione Lingotto Musica kindly posted a photo of a April 10 review (by Paolo Gallarati) of the Turin performance; the review appeared in La Stampa,a major newspaper in Italy. Unfortunately, the review is not posted on the web. I made a rough translation based on the text shown in the photo.

This published review by Paolo Gallarati appeared in the La Stampa (Italian newspaper).

Tsujii, the musical Prodigy Blind Pianist.

... gave a great demonstration of accuracy and depth of interpretation ... the Piano Concerto No.1 of Tchaikovsky was brought to the fore by Nobuyuki Tsujii, the Japanese pianist, and winner of the 13th Van Cliburn International piano competition. He is a musical prodigy, not only for the naturalness of phrasing and technical mastery, but because, being blind from birth, does not see the keyboard, yet never misses a jump in lightning fast movements of the hand. Without seeing the conductor, he is always precisely in sync with the orchestra. There were those who objected to the sound: a little too dry. Or the lyricism: a little restrained. Perhaps so; but the execution has been, after all, compelling, and even more so in the acrobatic encore performance of Rigoletto Paraphrase by Liszt..

<Translated from the Italian text shown in the photo posted by Associazione Lingotto Musica :

Pubblichiamo una recensione di Paolo Gallarati uscita oggi su La Stampa

Tsujii, prodigi di musicalita per il pianista cieco

has dato una splendida prova di accurateza e profondita interpretativa. Dopo l'Ouverture della Forza del destino, legata anch'essa, in un certo modo, alla tradizione russa, essendo stata rappresentata per la prima volta proprio a San Piertroburgo, il Concerto per pianoforte n.1 di Ciakovskij, ha portato in primo piano il funamabolico pianista giapponese Nobuyuki Tsujii, vincitore della tredicesima edizione del Concorso pianistico Internazionale Van Cliburn: un prodigio di muiscalita, non solo per la naturalezza del fraseggio e il dominio tecnico, ma perche, essendo cieco dalla nascita, non vede la tastiera, eppure non sbaglia un salto nei fulminei spostamenti delle mano, non verde il direttore, eppure giunge sempre preciso sugli attacchi dell'orchestra. C'era chi eccepiva sul suono: un po'troppo secco. O sul cantabile: un po trattenuto. Puo darsi: ma l'esecuzione e stata, tutto sommato, trascinante, e ancor piu l'acrobatica parafrasi del Rigoletto di Liszt, eseguita come bis. Dopo l'intervallo e apparsa l'alta qualita dell'orchestra: la morbidezza degli archi, ...>

April 10

Another positive review, this reviewer is very observant and quite fair in his comments.

http://www.ilcorrieremusicale.it/2013/04/10/nobuyuki-tsujii-lo-sguardo-dellaltrove/ - the review is archived on this site here

Nobuyuki Tsujii, Out of Sight

by Attilio Piovano, the Musical Courier, April 10

Review • In Turin, the young pianist who is blind inflames Tchaikovsky with a performance to take your breath away. But that does not take away from the excellent Verdi and Shostakovich by Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra ...

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April 10 Nobu posted a recital report, with two photos, including this endearing shot with Maestro Gergiev:

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13年4月8日（イタリア）

トリノ

フィアット社の自動車工場を改修したというLingotto（リンゴット）という大きな建物、ホテルやショッピングモール、スーパーマーケットに映画館などがあり、国際会議場の地下3階がコンサートホールとなっています。この日は完売。

ワレリー・ゲルギエフ指揮のマリインスキー劇場管弦楽団とは昨年7月以来の再会で、その時と同じチャイコフスキーのピアノ協奏曲第1番を演奏しました。アンコールに演奏したのはリストのリゴレット・パラフレーズ。

April 8, 2001 (Italy)

Torino <Turin>

The <concert took place in> a large building called (Lingotto), , a refurbished Lingotto Fiat car factory. It houses hotels and shopping malls and supermarkets and movie theaters. The International Conference, third floor below ground, has become a concert hall. This day is sold out.

In reunion since July last year, played Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev, the same as last time. The encore played was Liszt's Rigoletto-Paraphrase.

April 12 Yet another rave Italian review of Nobu's April 8 Turin performance, this one appeared on April 11, Opera Magazine - Musica e umanità di Nobuyuki Tsujii con Valery Gergiev (Music and Humanity of Nobuyuki Tsujii and Valery Gergiev) - original Italian version here - English translation here - the review is archived on this site here

April 11

The Associazione Lingotto Musica tweeted:

@CorriereMusical Review about the concert of @ValeryGergiev @mariinskyen and #NobuyukiTsujii at #Lingotto in #Turin http://bit.ly/ZaBRH6 (retweeted by Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre)

The tweet was re-tweeted by Valery Gergiev and the Marrinsky Theatre, and was also retweeted by an Italian :

Last night wonderful concert in @LingottoMusica with @ValeryGergiev @mariinskyen and #NobuyukiTsujii at #Lingotto in #Turin. I was there!

April 14

Nobu made such an impression in Italy!!

Posting on Italian online news TEMPI,. April 14, 2013 by Mario Leonehttp://www.tempi.it/blog/nobuyuki-tsujii-il-pianista-cieco-che-vale-la-pena-di-ascoltare#.UWriF7VQHpu

Nobuyuki Tsujii, the pianist who is worth listening to

I read a wonderful piece by Attilio Piovano of ilcorrieremusicale <an April 10 article that appeared in the Italian publication Music Courier>, a review of a concert in Turin with a Japanese pianist. Without reading the text, I was immediately intrigued by the video attachment <辻井伸行のチャイコフスキ- Nobuyuki Tsujii Tchaikovsky 1 movement 1 - part 1 of 2 - uploaded by me :-> that I opened quickly. I confess I did not know this miracle: Nobuyuki Tsujii, blind from birth, born in 1988, child prodigy (he started playing at the age of 2 years), first prize winner of the famous Van Clibur competition, has talent, musicality and character to spare . Listening to his performances on Youtube and watching him sway his head and torso playing vehemently and without any trimming is an experience of beauty. I do not need to add more. I advise you only to listen. Here is a little taste.

With embedding of YouTube video Nobuyuki Tsujii 辻井伸行 2009 Cliburn Competition FINAL CONCERT

Original text in Italian of article that appeared on TEMPI, aprile 14, 2013 Mario Leone

Nobuyuki Tsujii, il pianista che vale la pena di ascoltare

Esistono storie che sorprendono, commuovono anche, ma lasciano un ricordo vago o svaniscono nel nulla dopo poco. Altre invece segnano indelebilmente il corso della vita. Questo mi è successo nell’”incontro” con il pianista Nobuyuki Tsujii.

Leggevo uno splendido pezzo di Attilio Piovano su ilcorrieremusicale.it che recensiva il concerto a Torino del pianista giapponese. Non ho letto subito il testo perché incuriosito dal video allegato che ho aperto celermente. Confesso non conoscevo questo prodigio: Nobuyuki Tsujii, cieco dalla nascita, classe 1988, bambino prodigio (ha iniziato a suonare all’età di 2 anni), primo premio ex-equo al celeberrimo concorso Van Clibur, ha talento, musicalità e carattere da impallidire. Ascoltare le sue esecuzioni su youtube e vederlo ondeggiare con testa e busto suonando con veemenza e senza alcuna sbavatura è un’esperienza di bellezza unica. Non serve aggiungere altro. Vi consiglio solo di ascoltare. Qui di seguito un piccolo assaggio.

April 15

The tributes keep coming from Italy! This posting came up on April 15, with YouTube video of and much praise for Nobu;

L’emozionante storia di Nobuyuki Tsujii: cieco dalla nascita, incredibile talento

di Anna Invernizzi 15 aprile 201

Il giovane pianista giapponese si è esibito in Italia l'8 aprile scorso con un incredibile successo. Ma la sua storia è eccezionale almeno quanto il suo talento ...

The exciting story of Nobuyuki Tsujii: blind from birth, incredible talent

by Anna Invernizzi , April 1The young Japanese pianist has performed in Italy on April 8 with an incredible success. But her story is great as much as his talent ...