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Title Akira Ifukube: Ritmica Ostinata per pianoforte ed orchestra (TBS Vintage Classics Plus)
CD Label Universal Classics and Jazz / Universal Music LLC, Japan
CD Number TYCE-60014
Music Composed by: Akira Ifukube & other composers
Music Conducted by: Masashi Ueda
Music Performed by: Yutaka Kanai (piano), Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
Number of tracks 7
Running time 64:47
Number of discs 1
Year of release/manufacture January 22, 2014

REVIEW

March 02, 2014

Review coming at a later date.

[Notes: Vintage broadcasts from the vaults of TBS Radio, Japan]

Akira Ifukube: Ritmica Ostinata per pianoforte ed orchestra (TBS Vintage Classics Plus) (TYCE-60014)

  1. Ritmica Ostinata per pianoforte ed orchestra (Akira Ifukube)
    (premiere, broadcast October 9, 1961)
  2. Introduction
  3. Composition by Bato (Yosikazu Kataoka)
    (premiere, broadcast November 1, 1961)
  4. Introduction & Kan Ishii interview

    5. Sinfonia Ainu (Kan Ishii)
    (premiere, broadcast September 28, 1959)

  5. 1st Movement: lento
  6. 2nd Movement: sostenuto
  7. 3rd Movement: allegro

    8. Yutaka Kanai (piano), Yoshiko Okamura (soprano), Chorus conducted by Tadashi Mori