Beautiful young tigress at large — Aimi filmed recently in a Tokyo recording studio (I think!)

2010 — Age 14¼ plus

Event/Date: Studio recording session, Tokyo?, 25 December 2009.

Piece(s) played: Chopin Etude Op. 10 no. 4 (short version)

Duration: 1:07

Posting details: realmusiq802, 26 January 2010.

YouTube link

Comments: This well-edited clip with great sound looks like film taken during a recent recording session. Delightful informal vignette of Aimi at work.

Event/Date: Poznan, Poland, 21 February 2010.

Piece(s) played: Part of Chopin Nocturne no. 20 in C sharp minor (encore)

Duration: 2:41

Posting details: Adam Ciereszko, 21 February 2010

YouTube link (also on the Polish Press Agency website here)

Comments: Part video, part stills, we hear brief excerpts from the performance of an encore that had the audience applauding even before it ended. The montage is by Adam Ciereszko. Sounds like Aimi in top form!

Audio only clips from Poznan

On YouTube:

Waltz no. 14 in E min Op. posth. (posted by cristeny 13 June 2010)

On the Poznan Philharmonic website:

Unbelievably in a year in which we are hearing so little of Aimi, the Poznan Philharmonic is streaming a complete performance of the second movement of Chopin piano concerto no. 2. Go to this link, http://www.filharmoniapoznanska.pl, and it will play automatically. To my ears Aimi’s performance here is very similar to the one six months earlier with the Orchestra of the 18th Century under Frans Brüggen— in other words sublime beyond words. Here the orchestra is of course the Poznan Philharmonic conducted by Marek Pijarowski. Thank you Poznan Phil!

When you've heard that (it plays for 10 minutes and then repeats), place your cursor over the audio icon just left of “newsletter” at the top right of the page. You should see a popup, which will tell you that it is indeed Aimi playing. In the popup strip, click on the triangle and the streaming audio will change to the Waltz no. 14 in E flat which she played as an encore. Be careful not to click anywhere else in the popup strip or you may turn the audio off. If you do that, click on the strip again and the audio will switch back on. Christina’s posting on YouTube (see above) is of the same performance of the waltz.

Event/Date: TV Asahi Music Concert, broadcast 9 May 2010.

Piece(s) played: Part of Chopin Etude 10 no. 4

Duration: 1:30

Posting details: umaiyo800, 9 May 2010

YouTube link

Comments: Thrilling to see Aimi in action again — she’s really getting this étude nailed. The performance is from a regular concert series broadcast by tv asahi. This and the next clip are on a "private" setting, so you may need to set up a YouTube (or Google)account and sign in to be able to watch them.

Event/Date: TV Asahi Music Concert (continued), broadcast 9 May 2010.

Piece(s) played: Chopin Nocturne no. 20 in C sharp minor (complete)

Duration: 4:12

Posting details: umaiyo800, 9 May 2010

YouTube link

Comments: Well, we’ve heard this nocturne several times before, but every time Aimi plays it it seems to become more beautiful. Between the étude and the nocturne she was asked by the program host, Yutaka Sado, why she paused so long before starting to play the étude. She replied that she has to wait for the music to sound in her head before she is ready to play. At the beginning of this nocturne we see her briefly feeling her magic charm pendant, something she often does now before playing.

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