Sachiko Furuhata-Kersting was born in Yokohama, Japan, and completed her piano studies at the Tokyo Conservatory. Further studies took her to Germany at the Detmold University of Music and the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf. Her teachers include Roberto Szidon, Detlev Kraus, Naoyuki Taneda and Willem Brons. Her concert activities have taken her to Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Japan.
With this third recital album, Sachiko Furuhata-Kersting takes up selected works by Frédéric Chopin. With the famous etudes, the nocturnes and waltzes, different moods are singled out and compare so that an independent Chopin portrait is drawn.
Works:
•Chopin: Études (12), Op. 10Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 1 in C major
•Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 2 in A minor 'chromatique'
•Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 3 in E major 'Tristesse'
•Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 4 in C sharp minor
•Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 5 in G flat major 'Black Key'
•Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 6 in E flat minor 'Lacrimosa'
•Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 7 in C major
•Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 8 in F major
•Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 9 in F minor
•Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 10 in A flat major
•Chopin: Etude Op. 10 No. 11 in E flat major
•Chopin: Étude Op. 10 No. 12 in C minor ‘Revolutionary'
•Chopin: Études (12), Op. 25
•Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 1 in A flat major 'Aeolian Harp'
•Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 2 in F minor
•Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 3 in F major
•Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 4 in A minor
•Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 5 in E minor
•Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 6 in G sharp minr
•Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 7 in C sharp minor
•Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 8 in D flat major
•Étude Op. 25 No. 9 in G flat major 'Butterfly'
•Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 10 in B minor
•Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 11 in A minor 'Winter Wind'
•Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 12 in C minor
•Chopin: Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu'
•Chopin: Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. post.
•Chopin: Nocturnes (2), Op. 27
•Chopin: Nocturnes (2), Op. 48
•Chopin: Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Héroïque'
•Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31
•Chopin: Waltzes (2), Op. 69
•Chopin: Waltzes (3),p. 64