Fukai: Chantes De Java / Creation / Quatre Mouvements Parodiques
8/21/2006, 8 Tracks, 47:08
Featuring
Dmitry Yablonsky
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
Shiro Fukai
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Composer's Artistic Vision
Fukai, a modernist, was primarily interested in French music, especially Ravel's works, because he loved the artificial beauty of modern cities and preferred clear, precise, and light music.
Composition History
Fukai's ballet music Création was commissioned to commemorate the 2600th year of the Emperor, a political move to bolster nationalism during wartime.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Fukai's music won acclaim in Tokyo from an urban intellectual class who disliked Germanic heaviness and excessive attention to Japanese tradition.
Composer Biography
Shiro Fukai, the composer, started his music studies late and memorized scores by composers like Ravel and Stravinsky to learn orchestration.
Composer Biography
Fukai composed scores for nearly 200 films, which became his main source of income, including films directed by Kenji Mizoguchi and Tom Uchida.
Performer Biography
Dmitry Yablonsky, the conductor on this album, made his orchestral debut at age nine with Haydn's Cello Concerto in C major.
Compositional Technique
In Création, Fukai uses fourths and minor seconds to symbolize chaos and confusion, while fifths and major seconds represent order.
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