Japanese Orchestral Favorites (2001)
EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | 1 CD | Covers | 282 MB
Classical/20th Century | Label: Naxos | Cat.: 8555071 | RS/MU
EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | 1 CD | Covers | 282 MB
Classical/20th Century | Label: Naxos | Cat.: 8555071 | RS/MU
In the second half of the sixteenth century Japan, for a time, accepted European music, but this acceptance was cut short by the policy that rejected all European influences. It was only in the second half of the nineteenth century that the door was opened again to Europe and that European music once more found a place. In 1921 the first Japanese work for a European-style orchestra was composed, the Overture by Kôsçak Yamada, who had studied in Berlin. Thereafter the number of orchestral works by Japanese composers increased steadily, so that, from the later 1930s until today, there are annually some thirty such compositions, mounting sometimes to as many as a hundred. The present collection includes six of those best known in Japan, with four of them based on the traditional Japanese pentatonic scale.
