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Mayuzumi: Samsara, Phonologie symphonique & Bacchanale

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Details

Composer
MAYUZUMI, TOSHIRO
Artist
Fukumura
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Jun 08, 2018
Catalog #
8573916
UPC
747313391677

About

Toshiro Mayuzumi was one of Japan's foremost 20th-century composers, enjoying a distinguished international reputation on a par with that of Toru Takemitsu, as well as that of an enfant terrible of the post-war Japanese music world. Versatile and prolific, he contributed music for films, the theatre, the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and broadcasts. His enthusiasm for avant-garde Western music led him to study in Paris, and the Phonologie Symphonique is a synthesis of Varese-like acoustical experiment and serial techniques. The jazz-tinted Bacchanale is Mayuzumi's attempt to produce 'a cosmos of sounds reflecting the vital energies of the origin of music,' and the symphonic poem Samsara is a musical expression of Buddhist teaching, an attempt to escape the seemingly endless cycle of birth and rebirth. This recording first appeared in 1984 on the Marco Polo label. The relationship between the label and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra has been one of the most fruitful from the early days of Naxos to the present, right up to their irreplaceable contribution to the brand new Wagner Ring cycle conducted by Jaap van Zweden.

Tracklist 3 tracks

  1. 1 Phonologie Symphonique 09:35
    Track
    1
    Title
    Phonologie Symphonique
    Duration
    09:35
    Composer
    Toshirō Mayuzumi
    Ensemble
    Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Yoshikazu Fukumura
  2. 2 Bacchanale 10:46
    Track
    2
    Title
    Bacchanale
    Duration
    10:46
    Composer
    Toshirō Mayuzumi
    Ensemble
    Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Yoshikazu Fukumura
  3. 3 Samsara 22:34
    Track
    3
    Title
    Samsara
    Duration
    22:34
    Composer
    Toshirō Mayuzumi
    Ensemble
    Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Yoshikazu Fukumura