Dauer: 32:38
Symphony (1958)
I. Prelude: Adagio - Moderato [0:00]
II. Scherzo: Vivace [7:22]
III. Lento [11:13]
IV. Adagio - Allegro energico [23:54]
A large-scale orchestral work by Japanese composer Akio Yashiro (1929-1976), a student of Saburo Moroi and Qunihico Hashimoto. Although he was solidly situated in the Japanese modernist school of composers, Yashiro was highly skeptical of avant-garde trends in music and grounded his music in somewhat more traditional forms, drawing inspiration from figures such as Beethoven, Dukas and Messiaen. When John Cage visited Japan in 1962, Yashiro repeatedly heckled his performance, saying, "This is no music!" He had earned high praise from Messiaen and Florent Schmitt as a student at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and he became widely recognized as one of the leading Japanese composers. However, Yashiro's perfectionism hindered his productivity over the course of his career, so that his oeuvre remained quite small. The 1958 Symphony was commissioned by the Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. It consists of four nearly-continuous movements, which are carefully united by a few motifs, most notably a three note B-F-F sharp pattern and the B-F or B flat-F intervals. Some of the first-movement material was taken from an unfinished work that Yashiro began composing as a student on the subject of Oscar Wilde's Salome.
Conductor: Takuo Yuasa
Ulster Orchestra
KOMMENTARE
Kuang-Li Cheng
brilliant
Vor 7 MonateStuart Segan
That something would remind me so strongly of the American symphonist William Schuman baffles me greatly. Nevertheles...like waves crashing on the beach from different angles.
Vor 9 MonateMark McCarty
From what I've heard, I view Yashiro and Takemitsu as Japan's greatest composers. And, among contemporary composers, Yashiro's pupil Akira Nishimura.
Vor 10 Monatetuberobotto
While it does sound very "soundtracky'' and a bit John Williams-ish, the work is very interesting, compellingly imaginative and quite ahead of it's time (1958!) in sound architecture. A John Williams work in a similar vein only came out in the 70s (Close Encounters). Who knows who was inspired by who, but Akio definitely was ahead in this work.
Vor 10 MonateNostalgic Modernist
Does anyone hear odd textural echoes of Messaien's "Turangalila" Symphony in the latter half?
Vor 10 Monate坂巻洋
🏵️🍋😉🌿
Vor yearCaspar Wintermans
Wonderful!
Vor yearBrünn hilde
The greatest piece of music Wagner never wrote!
Vor yearFilomatia
I love the percussion around 17:40 This 20th century stuff is not my cup of tea, but this piece is quite enjoyable.
Vor yearretrograde,snake
Has this been used in film? Definitely sounds like i’ve heard it in an old akira kurosawa film
Vor yearShin-i-chi Kozima
This work will be timeless and will continue to give moisture and humility to people,s hearts . From Tokyo in the dizzying megalopolis ablaze with neon .
Vor yearMorgan Freeman's favorite freckle
This sounds like the score to the best movie never made
Vor 2 yearsAmmoniumbicarbonat
Sounds kinda like the soundtrack for Time Bandits
Vor 2 yearspoq
His music is scaring and exciting together wp
Vor 2 yearsGeorge Kraft
In the first movement his Messaien really sounds off. Reminds me of Turingalila.
Vor 3 yearsJeremy Ethan Cohen
I'm happily reminded of John Williams, and thus Stravinsky. Very enjoyable, with instrumentation / sound combinations I've never heard before.
Vor 3 yearsJordan Rodriguez
The beginning is marvelous
Vor 4 yearsKuang-Li Cheng
nice
Vor 4 yearsKeith Gifford
It's hard to understand how a Japanese composer in 1958 could compose so effectively in the European tradition.
Vor 5 yearsStuart Segan
@mANDROna Grove think you are construing the original comment in the most negative way possible. it is likely far more difficult for a westerner to gain recognition in the east than visa versa.
Vor 8 Monatelatt.qcd92
@Zack Wyvern It *is* the European tradition. The Classical tradition *is* the European tradition. That is its roots. You could add the quantifier that it's the "European Classical tradition" because there are other traditions in other countries where their's is considered "classical" -- this includes literature, as well, such as the "classics" such as the Chinese classics or the "sinology" -- but "classical" refers to a very European tradition. Stop trying to wipe away the European roots of the tradition. *You* seem to be the one that is bigoted if you believe that Europeans don't have a right to their own culture.
Vor yearlatt.qcd92
@mANDROna Grove They are. It comes out in modern classical music a lot. You just don't hear it in pop music.
Vor yearZack Wyvern
@mANDROna Grove It's not a "european tradition" anymore. It's a classical tradition. It can be formalized, made into theory, and made universal. "World music" was never formalized, but rather just folk music. If you stop thinking about everything in terms of "what country made it" and start thinking of "music that is structured and can be taught" then you will get your bigoted view out of your head, surely.
Vor yearG W
because corporations need to keep westerners dumbed down to a certain extent.
Vor 2 yearsmarinetti
@vemonds me too!
Vor 9 yearsViktor Emonds
Amazing symphony. I also love his piano concerto.
Vor 9 yearsmarinetti
I love it
Vor 9 years