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Title Akira Ifukube: Solo Exhibition by Nissho
CD Label Three Shells
CD Number 3SCD-0034
Music Composed by: Akira Ifukube
Music Performed by: Chamber Choir: Nissho; Piano: Mari Fujii;
Electone (organ): Ayaka Takebuta
Conducted by Kaoru Wada
Recording date and venue: September 2, 2016 at Shibuya Cultural Center Owada Traditional Hall
Number of tracks Disc 1: 5
Disc 2: 17
Running time Disc 1: 51:02
Disc 2: 53:18
Number of discs 2
Year of release/manufacture July 22, 2019

REVIEW

June 19, 2020

Live concert performance of Ifukube film music themes and other works arranged for chorus and piano (Disc 1) and chorus and organ (Disc 2), commemorating the 10th Anniversary of Ifukube's death.

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Akira Ifukube: Solo Exhibition by Nissho (3SCD-0034) [Ifukube Akira (1914-2006)]

    Disc 1

  1. Immortal Tanigami (premiere, composed by Kaoru Wada)
  2. "Hokkaido Sanka" (1961) Lyrics: Mitsu Mori
  3. Song of the Hokkaido Development Bureau Labor Union (Lyrics: Junichi Sawaya)
  4. "Shiratoko Peninsula Fisherman's Song" (1966), Piano Reduction (Lyrics: Genzo Sarashina)
  5. Ode: "The Sea of Okhotsk" (1958), Piano Reduction (Lyrics: Genzo Sarashina)

    Disc 2

    "The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon" (Animated, 1963)

  1. (M6)
  2. (M63)

    3. "Gauche the Cellist" (Animated, 1953)

  3. (M11)
  4. (M19)

    5. "Ivan and the Pony" (Shadow puppet play, 1953)

  5. Pony's song
  6. Ivan's song
  7. (M36)
  8. M44)

  9. "Chungshingura" (aka, "The 47 Ronin", 1962)
  10. "Whale God" (1962)
  11. "Rebel Child" (1965)
  12. "Hiroshima'' (1953)
  13. "Godzilla'' (1954), Main title / "Varan the Unbelievable'' (1958), Main Title
  14. "Atragon'' (1963), Mu's Prayer
  15. "Mothra vs Godzilla'' (1964) Main Title / Mahala Mothra
  16. "Mothra vs. Godzilla", Sacred Fountain / "King Kong vs Godzilla'' (1962), Main Title
  17. "Godzilla" (1954), Godzilla Under the Sea