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Works of Toyohiko Satoh 1

SATOH, TOYOHIKO
ALBA MUSICA KYO

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Normal PCM CD (In stock)		$20.41

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Toyhiko Satoh (1981): "PELERINAGE AU ROLLANT" It is not easy to classify Satoh's "Pelerinage au Rollant", based on texts chosen from "La Chanson de Roland", under one subtitle. As an authority in the field of the Renaissance in all its musical aspects, Satoh has made a kind of reconstruction which gives the impression that it has been based on the principles of an old music drama. Yet he did not confine himself to slavishly imitating the existing old sound structures. On the contrary, it is worth remarking that he integrated the primitive, classical, oriental, western and (in some cases) the modern ways of expressing...

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Main artist	SATOH, TOYOHIKO ALBA MUSICA KYO
Inlay	Plerinage au Rollant (1981); Kobanashi (Little Tales) (1985); Komori-Uta (Lullaby)
Biography	ensemble "ALBA MUSICA KYO" is a group based on 3 Japanese musicians (Toyohiko Satoh, Chiyomi Yamade and Taka Kitazato) resident of Holland. They perform Europian music composed between 14C and 17C, including some contemporary music, as well as those which are based on traditional Japanese tunes. Often they work with a few more musicians together depending on the music they perform. "Lute" is the centre of the group with a voice, woodwind instruments, string instruments and percussions. "KYC" means in Japanese; "the Capital", "Today", "Crazy", "Bridge", or "Harmony" at the same time. And "ALBA" is "Dawn" or "Beginning". Therefore the name of the group can mean; "Dawn of today's musdic" or "Beginning of crazy music", or even "The start of noble Japanese music, etc... The members of this recording:
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Quotes	(...) In a couple of minutes we have encountered the doleful grace of a Renaissance ensemble. (...) Fanfare
Format	Normal PCM CD
Running time	57:00
Year of release	1991
Number of cd's	1