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2024-04-04 14:16:11
I want to flag up two recent albums for which i’ve contributed liner notes, both of which focus on music from Norway, and both of which have coincidentally been released around the same time. The first is My Microtonal Piano, an anthology of contemporary pieces performed by Oslo-based pianist Sanae… The post appeared first on 5:4. 5:4 is on Patreon! Please consider supporting the blog by becoming a Patron from just $2 a month: ici
2024-02-21 08:42:00
On an Endless Road: Itō Noe and the Women Composers of Her Time
[…] warriors in battle. At the concert Kubota will be joined by Midori Komachi (violin) and Yura Zaiki (piano). As well as Le Lohé's song cycle, the programme includes music for violin and piano by three of Noe’s contemporaries who broke new ground writing in the Western Classical tradition - Kōda Nobu (1870-1946), one of the very first Japanese composers to write in the European classical tradition, Toyama Michiko (1913-2006), who forged an international career and reputation, Yoshida Takako (1910- 1956), a feminist and pacifist, who refused to write militaristic music and was jailed for her pacifist principles in 1940.In 2015, composer Francesca Le Lohé received a Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Scholarship and relocated to Japan to study Japanese instruments, including the biwa. Her opera The Key won the Keizo Saji Prize in 2019.Full details from the Hera website.
2021-11-10 09:26:00
Recycle, re-use, re-think: Dai Fujikura's latest disc Glorious Clouds
[…] to a Western classical instrument, the violin, except that Mari Kimura plays with a motion sensor on her wrist, so Fujikura is working here with far more technical information than is generally available to composers. He has a created a fragile, delicate, will o'the wisp piece. Gliding Wings for two clarinets and ensemble is an expansion of an earlier clarinet duo that Fujikura wrote for his teacher George Benjamin's 60th birthday. Here performed by Makoto Yoshida and Hideo Kikuchi (clarinets) with Ensemble Nomad and Norio Sato (conductor), the work feels like chamber music rather than a concerto and features delicate but complex interactions between the instruments, full of fascinating detail. Love Excerpt, setting a text by Harry Ross, was written for soprano Jane Manning's 70th birthday. Here it is performed by Tony Arnold (soprano) and Jacob Greenberg (piano). It begins as almost a vocalise over an incessant single […]
2021-11-10 09:26:00
Recycle, re-use, re-think: Dai Fujikura's latest disc Glorious Clouds
[…] to a Western classical instrument, the violin, except that Mari Kimura plays with a motion sensor on her wrist, so Fujikura is working here with far more technical information than is generally available to composers. He has a created a fragile, delicate, will o'the wisp piece. Gliding Wings for two clarinets and ensemble is an expansion of an earlier clarinet duo that Fujikura wrote for his teacher George Benjamin's 60th birthday. Here performed by Makoto Yoshida and Hideo Kikuchi (clarinets) with Ensemble Nomad and Norio Sato (conductor), the work feels like chamber music rather than a concerto and features delicate but complex interactions between the instruments, full of fascinating detail. Love Excerpt, setting a text by Harry Ross, was written for soprano Jane Manning's 70th birthday. Here it is performed by Tony Arnold (soprano) and Jacob Greenberg (piano). It begins as almost a vocalise over an incessant single […]
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