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01. Yoichi Sugiyama - Part 1
02. Yoichi Sugiyama - Part 2
03. Yoichi Sugiyama - Part 3
04. Yoichi Sugiyama - Part 4
05. Yoichi Sugiyama - Spring View
06. Yoichi Sugiyama - Facing Snow
07. Yoichi Sugiyama - Quintetto "The Last Interview from Africa" (2013)
08. Yoichi Sugiyama - 1. From foreign lands and people
09. Yoichi Sugiyama - 2. A strange story
10. Yoichi Sugiyama - 3. Blindman's-buff
11. Yoichi Sugiyama - 4. The entreating child
12. Yoichi Sugiyama - 5. Perfect happiness
13. Yoichi Sugiyama - 6. An important event
14. Yoichi Sugiyama - 7. Dreaming
15. Yoichi Sugiyama - 8. At the fireside
16. Yoichi Sugiyama - 9. Ride a cock-horse
17. Yoichi Sugiyama - 10. Almost too serious
18. Yoichi Sugiyama - 11. Bogeyman's coming
19. Yoichi Sugiyama - 12. Child falling asleep
20. Yoichi Sugiyama - 13. The poet speaks
ARTIST
TITLE
Kinderszenen
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
NEOS 11901CD NEOS 11901CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/7/2019

The album Kinderszenen with music by Yoichi Sugiyama is a portrait CD in the best sense. It not only shows various facets of the composer, but the works also have strong biographical connections. Like many Asian composers of his generation, Sugiyama combines Eastern and Western influences in his music. At times this is readily apparent, as in the work Kuguhi for 17-string bass koto (a Japanese zither), or quite subtle, as when he used Schumann's Kinderszenen as the initial material for a complex and richly differentiated viola quartet.

After growing familiar with the Japanese new music scene -- and also influencing it himself, it was Sugiyama's fascination with contemporary Italian composers that led him to travel to Europe. Today he is internationally established as a composer and a conductor. Performers include: Kazue Sawai - 17-string bass koto; Wonjung Kim - voice Richard Stoltzman - clarinet; Ah Ling Neu - viola; Stephen Gosling - piano; Tokyo Gen'On Project; The Imai Viola Quartet.