Matsumura: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 / To the Night of Gethseman

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
August 30, 2011
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MATSUMURA, TEIZO
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Rté National Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Kamiya, Yuasa
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 30, 2011
    • UPC
      747313033775
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8570337
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Andante - Lento - Allegro - Lento

      Composer: Teizo Matsumura

      Ensemble: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Takuo Yuasa

    2. II. Adagio

      Composer: Teizo Matsumura

      Ensemble: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Takuo Yuasa

    3. III. Allegro - Lento - Allegro Doppio Movimento

      Composer: Teizo Matsumura

      Ensemble: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Takuo Yuasa

    4. I. half note = 50

      Composer: Teizo Matsumura

      Ensemble: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Ikuyo Kamiya

      Conductor: Takuo Yuasa

    5. II. quarter note = 46

      Composer: Teizo Matsumura

      Ensemble: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Ikuyo Kamiya

      Conductor: Takuo Yuasa

    6. III. half note = 50

      Composer: Teizo Matsumura

      Ensemble: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Ikuyo Kamiya

      Conductor: Takuo Yuasa

    7. To the Night of Gethsemane

      Composer: Teizo Matsumura

      Ensemble: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Takuo Yuasa


A contemporary of Toru Takemitsu, Teizo Matsumura combined European influences with Asian musical traditions. His tautly-constructed Symphony No. 1, a work of genuine power and intense sonic splendour, evokes the image of innumerable locusts swarming over the earth. Symphony No. 2, written over 30 years later and inspired by a poster of a pair of sumo-wrestler-like statues standing at the entrance to a famous Buddhist temple in Nara, Japan, is a soulful monologue of alternating sorrow and hope. The richly expressive symphonic poem To the Night of Gethsemane, inspired by Giotto’s fresco The Kiss of Judas, was Matsumura’s last orchestral work.