Yuji Takahashi
Purcell’s Last Pieces
Denon (Japan) 1975
40X-9023-ND (LP) 4 channel. w/cap obi, insert.
sleeve : NM(IN SHRINK)
media : EX/EX(some slightly noises.)
Album released in 1975 by contemporary musician/composer/pianist Yuji Takahashi, who studied music theory under Iannis Xenakis and is active internationally alongside Toshi Ichiyanagi and Toru Takemitsu. The music is a free-flowing work that quotes the works of 17th-century English composer Henry Purcell, but reconstructed with a new interpretation using clavichord, harpsichord, piano, electric piano, celesta and electric organ, in the typical Takahashi style. No synthesiser is used, but there are moments when it sounds like it, and nature sounds can be heard at the end of the B-side. It should be listened to together with "The (Electric) Art of the Fugue", a synthesised version of J.S. Bach's fugue released the previous year. This is an obscure 4 channel version.
A1: Sweet Musick
B2: Breath air and Ease Me