Hanae Nakajima - whatever happened to this pianist

Rob Barnett

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Oct 23, 2005, 3:25:24 AM10/23/05

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Some time in the early to mid 1970s this pianist's Emperor Concerto was
issued on a bargain basement LP label. If I recall correctly it was sold
only through Woolworths in the UK.

I seem to recall that other LPs followed to complete the LVB cycle.

The orchestra was, I think, the Nuremberg SO conducted by Rato Tschupp.
Tschupp died in 2002 in Switzerland.

I looked on Amazon and see that some piano solos and the first piano
concerto by Liszt were issued on Zyx but nothing else. I also googled
Nakajima's name to no effect.

Does anyone recall anything about those LPs or about her life and
musical/recording activities since?

At the time they came out Gramophone and the BBC sang her praises (not sure
what the US and German and Japanese mags made of them) - for a while those
LPs were quite a phenomenon. Were they ever reissued on CD?

Rob

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Juan I. Cahis

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Oct 23, 2005, 10:28:35 AM10/23/05

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She was the first person to make an LP recording of the *complete* set
of Schubert Piano Sonatas. I mean the *complete set of 21 Sonatas*,
Paul Badura-Skoda Edition.

"Rob Barnett" <Rob.Ba...@btinternet.com> wrote:

>Some time in the early to mid 1970s this pianist's Emperor Concerto was
>issued on a bargain basement LP label. If I recall correctly it was sold
>only through Woolworths in the UK.
>
>I seem to recall that other LPs followed to complete the LVB cycle.
>
>The orchestra was, I think, the Nuremberg SO conducted by Rato Tschupp.
>Tschupp died in 2002 in Switzerland.
>
>I looked on Amazon and see that some piano solos and the first piano
>concerto by Liszt were issued on Zyx but nothing else. I also googled
>Nakajima's name to no effect.
>
>Does anyone recall anything about those LPs or about her life and
>musical/recording activities since?
>
>At the time they came out Gramophone and the BBC sang her praises (not sure
>what the US and German and Japanese mags made of them) - for a while those
>LPs were quite a phenomenon. Were they ever reissued on CD?
>
>Rob

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

Geoff Ponton

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Oct 23, 2005, 1:56:01 PM10/23/05

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I have her Beethoven 5th and Liszt 2nd on CD.

Geoff P.

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david gideon

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Oct 23, 2005, 7:43:12 PM10/23/05

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In article <djgirm$llk$1...@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk>, Geoff Ponton
<geof...@ponton8296.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> I have her Beethoven 5th and Liszt 2nd on CD.
>
> Geoff P.

Can you tell me what CD that might be, label and number? Thank you so
much.

dg

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s.s

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Oct 27, 2005, 5:27:22 AM10/27/05

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She returned to Japan from Germany in September and
teaches at an university in Tokyo now.

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