“…an extraordinarily light touch on the keys that serves J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations very well … Kato makes her presence felt.”
Japanese-American pianist Sachiko Kato shows an extraordinarily light touch on the keys that serves J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations very well. The Osaka native who grew up in Los Angeles and studied at Juilliard, where her teachers included Russell Sherman and Jerome Lowenthal, cultivates a quickness in these variations that makes them move through our consciousness with a fleetness that…