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Title Akira Ifukube: Piano Works
CD Label Altus Music
CD Number ALT298/9
Music by: Akira Ifukube
Music Performed by: Hitomi Takara (piano), with Reiko Kono and Kyoko Itabashi (percussion on "Bon Odori")
Recording date and venue: January 28th, 30th and 31st, 2014 in Fucho no Mori Arts Theater, Vienna Hall
Number of tracks Disc 1 - 9
Disc 2 - 10
Running time Disc 1 - 40:05
Disc 2 - 44:55
Number of discs 2
Year of release/manufacture August 21, 2014

REVIEW

April 28, 2020
Piano arrangements of concert works and film music themes.

Review at a later date

Akira Ifukube: Piano Works

    Disc 1

    PIANO SUITE

  1. Bon Odori
  2. Tanabata
  3. Nagashi
  4. Nebuta

  5. Film Music: Piano theme from SAKUMA DAM (1954-57)

  6. Film Music: "Piano Solo" (M7) from TEAR DOWN THOSE WALLS (1959)

    7. JAPANESE RHAPSODY (1935/2004)

  7. Nocturne
  8. Fete

  9. Film Music: TWO SONS (M24, 1961)

    Disc 2

    BALLET: BON ODORI (world premiere recording of previously lost work, 1938)

  1. Tanabata
  2. Nagashi
  3. Nebuta
  4. Nocturne
  5. Festival
  6. Timbe
  7. Bon Odori

  8. Film Music: WOMAN RUNNING ALONG THE BEACH (M7, 1964)

  9. SYMPHONIC FANTASIA NO. 1 (1993, piano arrangement by Ifukube student Motoshi Ishimaru)

  10. Film Music: "Sacred Fountain" (From MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA, 1964)