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Title Japanese Love Songs
CD Label BIS (Sweden)
CD Number BIS-CD-1630
Music by: Various composers
Music performed by: Marie Kobayashi (mezzo-soprano)
Claude Delangle (saxophone)
Jean Geoffroy (percussion)
Recorded: December 2006 at the studio "La Muse en Circuit", Paris, France
Number of tracks 15
Running time 82:10
Number of discs 1
Year of release/manufacture December 01, 2008

REVIEW May 29, 2021

Works by various composers arranged for vocal, saxophone and percussion. Despite the CD's title, this is abstract, challenging music.

Japanese Love Songs

    NATSUDA, MASAKAZU: TWO POEMS BY RYŌKAN (2005)

  1. Awayuki no… (Light Snow)
  2. Interlude (instrumental)
  3. Yume no yōni (Like a Dream)

    4. HOSOKAWA, TOSHIO: THREE LOVE SONGS (2004)

  4. I. Kurai michi (A Dark Road)
  5. II. Omoide (Memory)
  6. III. Hotaru (Firefly)

    7. IFUKUBE, AKIRA: FIRST ECLOGUE AFTER EPOS AMONG AINU RACES (1956)

  7. Shine onne ekashi kor shinotcha (Song of an old woman)

    8. TANADA, FUMINORI:

  8. DUO for mezzo-soprano and soprano saxophone (2006)

    9. NODA, RYO

  9. IMPROVISATION 1 for alto saxophone solo

    10. IFUKUBE, AKIRA: SECOND ECLOGUE AFTER EPOS AMONG AINU RACES

  10. Yaishama ne na (Song of a bird dying in the Northern sea)

    11. NODAIRA, ICHIRO

  11. DASHU NO SHO for voice and alto saxophone (2003)

    12. IFUKUBE, AKIRA: THIRD ECLOGUE AFTER EPOS AMONG AINU RACES

  12. Ku-taxkara kusu (Dancing song of a young girl and a witch)

    13. LARBI, HACÈNE:

  13. MATSUKAZE for mezzo-soprano, soprano/tenor saxophone and percussion

    14. DUBEDOUT, BERTRAND:

  14. ÇA VA COMMENCER ÇA COMMENCE for mezzo-soprano and soprano saxophone

    15. SHIMAZAKI, TŌSON

  15. (KIMI GA KOKARO WA) Poem recited with percussion accompaniment