Tokyo Sonata

Jean-Marie Leclair - 6 Sonatas for Violin and Basso continuo from "Troisième livre de sonates", Op.5
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers | 438 Mb
Label: DENON - Date: 1993

Ryo Terakado. His interest in baroque music already started before: When he was 19, he started to play baroque violin by himself. Some years later, he founded a baroque ensemble "Concert Spirituel" together with Masahiro Arita (Flute), who influenced him a lot, and Hidemi Suzuki (cello). In 1985, he came to the Netherlands to study the baroque violin at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague under guidance of Sigiswald Kuijken. In 1989 He received a soloist diploma…

This is the latest album by Keisuke Yasujima, a pianist who has been attracting attention from many music fans for his unique musical activities while practicing as a lawyer. This is the world premiere recording of a piano arrangement of Ysaye's masterpiece "Sonata for Solo Violin," one of the pinnacle of violin art. Pianist Keisuke Nijima and arranger Kohei Owaki spent a long time to unravel the work, and they are convinced that "if Ysaye could have played the piano, he would certainly have written this way.

Tomoyuki Hirota has been principal oboe of the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra since 2006, and also is the training executive of the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra. Prior to these positions, he was appointed solo oboist of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra while a student at Kunitachi College of Music, making him the first contract solo oboist of the Japanese orchestras ever. Mr. Hirota was highly acclaimed by The Times at a European tour with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in March 2003.

The unprecedented expansion of music in the age of enlightenment
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