Makoto Moroi “3 Concerto Movements for Shakuhachi, Percussions, and Strings”

Makoto Moroi
Piano Concert No.1 / 3 Concerto Movements for Shakuhachi, Percussions, and Strings”
Victor (Japan) 1979
KVX-5515 (LP) w/obi.
sleeve : EX+(very slightly dirts a bit, still good condition.)
media : EX/EX(some slightly surface noises.)

This is an album of works by Makoto Moroi, a composer who founded the Twentieth Century Music Research Institute with Toshiro Mayuzumi and Namio Shibata in the late 1950s and devoted himself to the development of contemporary music, and was one of the earliest practitioners of new techniques such as the twelve-tone technique and music concrète. The "Piano Concerto No. 1" on the A-side was composed in 1966 and premiered by Hitoshi Kobayashi on piano and the official NHK Symphony Orchestra in Mori, and is a live recording of a concert held at the Suginami Public Hall in 1970. The most noteworthy piece is the B-side "Concerto for Shakuhachi, Strings, and Percussion". Performed by Chikuho Sakai (shakuhachi), Rotes Toha (kotsuzumi), and other fata instrumentalists, as well as Yasunori Yamaguchi (percussion) and Tokyo Zoristen, it is a dazzling blend of Japanese and Western music that boldly sublimates elements of Japanese classical music.