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Kunihiko Hashimoto - Symphony No.2, Three Wasan, Scherzo con sentimento | Naxos 8572869

Kunihiko Hashimoto - Symphony No.2, Three Wasan, Scherzo con sentimento

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8572869

Barcode: 0747313286973

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 2nd July 2012

Contents

Artists

Akiya Fukushima (baritone)
Tokyo Geidai Philharmonia

Conductor

Takuo Yuasa

Works

Hashimoto, Kunihiko

Scherzo con sentimento
Symphony no.2
Three Wasan

Artists

Akiya Fukushima (baritone)
Tokyo Geidai Philharmonia

Conductor

Takuo Yuasa

About

Kunihiko Hashimoto was one of the leading Japanese composers in the first half of the twentieth century. His synthesis of Japanese and European musical forms was founded on two years of study and travel in the West.

Symphony No.2 was commissioned to celebrate Japan’s new postwar Constitution, but combines jubilation with an introspective nostalgia. Three Wasan sets Buddhist texts which describe the beauty of ‘pure land’ or heaven, merging traditional chant with bel canto expressiveness. Innovative for its time, the early Scherzo con sentimento melds Japanese music with Western neo-classicism.

These are World Première Recordings of Symphony No.2 and Three Wasan.

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