Vocal, Saxophone and Percussion Music: Kobayashi, Marie / Delangle, Claude / Geoffroy, Jean (Japanese Love Songs)

Featuring

Marie Kobayashi
Claude Delangle
Jean Geoffroy
Masakazu Natsuda
Toshio Hosokawa
Akira Ifukube

Fuminori Tanada
Ryō Noda
Ichiro Nodaira
Hacene Larbi
Bertrand Dubedout
Toson Shimazaki

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Performer Biography

Jean Geoffroy, the percussionist, is a tireless champion of contemporary music, having made over twenty recordings and written several educational books.

Album & Artwork

This album, titled "Love songs from and for Japan," was premiered in 2006 at the Museum of Asiatic Arts in Nice, a building designed by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange.

Performer Biography

Marie Kobayashi, the mezzo-soprano on this recording, moved to Paris in 1982 and studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique with notable teachers like William Christie.

Performer Biography

Claude Delangle, the saxophonist, has enriched the saxophone repertoire by collaborating with major composers like Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, and Astor Piazzolla.

Composer Biography

Akira Ifukube, composer of the Eclogues, decided to become a composer at age fourteen after hearing a radio broadcast of Stravinsky's "Petrushka."

Compositional Technique

In Masakazu Natsuda's "Two Poems by Ryokan," the first poem uses a heterophonic texture between voice and saxophone, while the percussion comments on the temporal frame.

Compositional Technique

Bertrand Dubedout's "Ça va commencer ça commence" uses a poetic text in both its original Japanese and French translation, creating a dialogue between two vocal delivery modes.