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Yamada, K.: Nagauta Symphony / Meiji Symphony / Maria Magdalena

2/1/2008, 3 Tracks, 51:30

Featuring

  • Takuo Yuasa
  • Tetsuo Miyata
  • Toru Ajimi
  • Yumiko Mizoiri
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
  • Kosaku Yamada

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Composer Biography

Yamada's early exposure to Western music came from military bands and Christian hymns, as his mother's family was Protestant.

Source: Booklet

Cultural Impact

Yamada laid the foundations for the NHK Symphony Orchestra, one of Japan's leading orchestras today, by establishing orchestras and opera companies from scratch.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Touon Testuo Miyata, a Nagauta vocalist on this album, was appointed a Living National Treasure of Nagauta and Singing.

Source: Booklet

Cultural Impact

Yamada composed a huge number of popular songs and nursery rhymes, earning him the nickname 'the Japanese Schubert' in the 1920s.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Kósçak Yamada, born in 1886, is considered the composer who made the most significant contribution to the development of Western music in Japan.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The Nagauta Symphony 'Tsurukame' combines traditional Japanese vocal music, Nagauta, with a Western-style orchestra, with the orchestra competing contrapuntally with the Nagauta part.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Yamada's musical style integrated German late Romanticism, French Impressionism, Scriabin's mysticism, and Japanese traditional elements.

Source: Booklet

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