The Japanese pianist Yumiko Matsuda is devoting her debut CD with Gramola to the main representatives of Viennese Classicism: Joseph Haydn’s Sonata in E flat major Hob.XVI:49, the Sonata in F major KV 332 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor op 27/2 ‘Moonlight’ by Ludwig van Beethoven. Franz Schubert, who together with the late Beethoven is considered a trailblazer to Romanticism and its first representative, is here represented with his Sonata in A major D 664, which closes this recording.

Yumiko Matsuda was born in Tokyo and from 2002 studied piano with Prof Elisabeth Dvorak-Weisshaar, Prof Alexander Jenner, Prof Jörg Demus and Prof Paul Badura-Skoda, Modern Music with Prof Wolfgang Gabriel and chamber music with Prof Werner Hink. Since 2006, she has regularly performed in the Bösendorfer Hall in Vienna, in the Vienna Musikverein, in the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, in Gasteig in Munich, at the Salzburg Festival, in Germany and Japan.