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Japanese Orchestral Favourites

~ Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra (Artist), Ryusuke Numajiri (Artist)
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  • Audio CD (15 April 2002)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Naxos
  • ASIN: B000063TS2
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 127,486 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Rhapsody for Orchestra 7:16£0.69
Listen  2. Etenraku 9:02Album Only
Listen  3. Japanese Rhapsody: I. Nocturne 8:01Album Only
Listen  4. Japanese Rhapsody: II. Fetes 8:41Album Only
Listen  5. Music for Symphony Orchestra: Andantino 4:41£0.69
Listen  6. Music for Symphony Orchestra: Allegro 5:05£0.69
Listen  7. Kobiki-Uta for Orchestra11:27Album Only
Listen  8. Threnody to Toki for String Orchestra and Piano, Op. 1211:47Album Only

On this CD:
  1. Rhapsody
    Composed by Yuzo Toyama
    Performed by Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
    Conducted by Ryusuke Numajiri

  2. Etenraku
    Composed by Hidemaro Konoye
    Performed by Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
    Conducted by Ryusuke Numajiri

  3. Japanese Rhapsody
    Composed by Akira Ifukube
    Performed by Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
    Conducted by Ryusuke Numajiri

  4. Music for Symphony Orchestra
    Composed by Yasushi Akutagawa
    Performed by Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
    Conducted by Ryusuke Numajiri

  5. Kobiki-Uta
    Composed by Kiyoshige Koyama
    Performed by Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
    Conducted by Ryusuke Numajiri

  6. Threnody to Toki
    Composed by Takashi Yoshimatsu
    Performed by Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
    Conducted by Ryusuke Numajiri

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5.0 out of 5 stars Exotic blend of East and West, 25 Mar 2009
By D. Turns (Bristol, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a highly enjoyable collection of orchestral showpieces that are little known outside their country of origin but, at their best, convey a heady mixture of Japanese and Western orchestral sonorities. I initially bought this disc because I had heard some music by Yuzo Toyama in a different collection, and wanted to explore some more. Some of the most fascinating music for Western classical orchestra is written by composers from non-Western countries, using their national idioms and styles to create often very beautiful hybrid sounds.

In the case of Toyama, this is done through the use of actual Japanese folk melodies as the basis of his "Rhapsody". Others, such as Akira Ifukube (arguably the most widely heard of the composers represented here, if only for the music he wrote for some 300 films, including most famously the "Godzilla" series), use sounds from Japanese traditional court music styles and transcribe them for Western classical orchestra to achieve a satisfyingly exotic effect. Perhaps the most remarkable, and certainly the most sustained and concentrated, of the compositions in this style here is Hidemaro Konoye's "Etenraku", a carefully stylised recreation (for Western orchestra) of the sounds of a Japanese court orchestra which comes close to achieving a rapt sense of timelessness.

The only piece on this disc that I found hard to like was the "Threnody to Toki", by Takashi Yoshimatsu, whose very modernist brand of dissonance is unappealing to my ears - and nothing particularly Japanese about it, to boot. The latter point is also true of Yasushi Akutagawa's "Music for Symphony Orchestra", which sounds more like Prokofiev or Kabalevsky than anything else (which, if anything, works to the music's advantage). Defining characteristics common to all the other pieces on this disc, which sound more or less intensely Japanese, are an almost cinematically descriptive flair (especially evident in Ifukube's "Japanese Rhapsody"), and strong (often pulsatingly energetic) rhythms, even in comparatively slow music.

Highly recommended to all those in search of something a little different!
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