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Ikuyo Kamiya: Symphonies 1 & 2 / to the Night of Gethsemane - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Symphonies 1 & 2 / to the Night of Gethsemane

Artist:

Ikuyo Kamiya

Label:

Naxos

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

747313033775

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2011-08-30

Number of Discs:

1

A contemporary of Toru Takemitsu, Teizo Matsumura combined European influences with Asian musical traditions. His tautly-constructed Symphony No. 1, a work of genuine power and intense sonic splendour, evokes the image of innumerable locusts swarming over the earth. Symphony No. 2, written over 30 years later and inspired by a poster of a pair of sumo-wrestler-like statues standing at the entrance to a famous Buddhist temple in Nara, Japan, is a soulful monologue of alternating sorrow and hope. The richly expressive symphonic poem To the Night of Gethsemane, inspired by Giotto’s fresco The Kiss of Judas, was Matsumura’s last orchestral work.

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