This album was recorded using custom-made DC amplifier line-level microphones based on the Kaneda formula with Schoeps MK2H capsules, designed and manufactured by Tadaharu Mouri in 2013.
Album & Artwork
The album title, "The Awakening of a Faun in the Rising Sun," is inspired by French writer Paul Claudel's collection of poems, "The Black Bird in the Rising Sun."
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album's program is conceived as a journey through time and space, depicting a European faun's travel to Japan, his struggles, and his integration into the new land.
Instruments
Florent Charreyre, the oboist on this recording, plays an 'Imperial Oboe' made by Manufacture Dupin, a company founded in Zurich in 1976 and now based in Luxembourg.
Historical Context
Paul Claudel, a French writer, was one of the founders of the Institut français in Japan, and his poems were first translated into Japanese by UEDA Bin, a Japanese scholar and poet.
Album & Artwork
The album's cover art features a costume design for Nijinsky from "L'Après-midi d'un faune," painted by Leon Bakst, held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Performer Biography
Florent Charreyre, the oboist, is originally from Auvergne, France, and is currently an oboist in the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra.
