Release Date: 07 January 2007
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313297122
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: YAMADA, K.
Description
K??s?ºak Yamada was the first great composer to emerge from Japan after it had begun to accept western classical music. After studies with Max Bruch, Yamada was the first Japanese composer to write symphonies and operas. 'Nagauta Symphony' is an epoch-making work that attempts the fusion of western music and 'nagauta', Japanese traditional vocal music performed with instruments including the three-stringed 'shamisen, fues' (Japanese flutes) and percussion. In this work, Yamada takes a classic 'nagauta' piece of 1857 to which he adds his original orchestral music. 'Sinfonia 'Inno Meiji'' is effectively a symphonic poem which depicts Japan on the way to westernisation from the latter half of the 19th century through to the early 20th century. It combines a big orchestra with the 'hichiriki', an ancient Japanese double reed wind instrument, and other Asian instruments. The sumptuous 'Maria Magdalena', scored for a large orchestra and influenced by the symphonic poems of Richard Strauss, was first performed in Carnegie Hall in 1919.
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
