Toshiro Mayuzumi “Bugaku / Mandala Symphonie”

Toshiro Mayuzumi

Bugaku / Mandala Symphonie

Denon (Japan) 1980

OW-7838-ND (LP) w/obi.

sleeve : VG+(light dirts.)

media : EX/EX(some slightly surface noises.)

An album released in 1980 by Toshiro Mayuzumi, a leading postwar Japanese composer/contemporary musician who introduced music concrete, electronic music and avant-garde music to Japan in the early 50's, and who himself released many compositions influenced by them. From Denon's "Series: Contemporary Japanese Music, 1500".The recording was made at Suginami Public Hall in 1967, with Hiroyuki Iwaki conducting and the NHK Symphony Orchestra performing. Side A, "Bugaku" is a ballet music composed in 1962 on commission from the New York City Ballet, and is a bugaku-like work that utilizes Japanese tones. Side B, "Mandala Symphonie" is one of Mayuzumi's masterpieces that expresses the world through the construction of a collection of sounds without using specific materials.

A: バレエ音楽《舞楽》