Yasuji Kiyose “Orchestral Selections”

Yasuji Kiyose “Orchestral Selections”

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Yasuji Kiyose
Orchestral Selections
Fontec (Japan) 1982
FONC-5039 (LP) w/obi, insert.
sleeve : VG+(some small dirts.)
media : EX-/EX-(some light surface noises.)

This album was released in 1982 and contains five orchestral pieces by Yasuji Kiyose, a composer who was born in 1900 in the middle of the Meiji era (1868-1912), taught himself piano and composition, and laid the foundation for the birth and development of contemporary music in Japan. It was recorded in 1982 at the Main Hall of Tokyo Bunka Kaikan with an orchestra conducted by Yasushi Akutagawa and the New Symphony Orchestra, and piano by Hikaru Hayashi. The album includes "Japanese Ritual Dance" (A1), a dance piece expressing the development of Japanese tradition from ancient times to the present, "Primitive Dance" (A3), the first piece of the three-part suite "Local Dance", and "Yose ni Yosu" (B2), which recalls the ancient times before the arrival of Buddhism. The music is unique in its simplicity and not in its technicality. The influence of the leading postwar Japanese composers such as Akutagawa, Hayashi, and Toru Takemitsu, who participate in the performance of this work, is obvious, as well as the sense shared by non-Western composers such as Bartok and Stravinsky. All talk aside, this is a wonderful piece of music, and we hope you will give it a try.


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