Into The Light (International)

The Sixteen [Choir], Harry Christophers [Director] Kaori Muraji [Guitar] - Into The Light (International)

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Artist: The Sixteen [Choir], Harry Christophers [Director] Kaori Muraji [Guitar]
Conductor: Harry Christophers
Performer: The Sixteen
Performer: Kaori Muraji
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2011-11-22
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
  1. Con Amores, La M\xEDa Madre
  2. Canon (Rosa Mystica)
  3. O Quam Gloriosum
  4. O Quam Gloriosum
  5. Prelude No.1 In E Minor
  6. Prelude No.3 in A minor (""Flow my Tears"")
  7. Prelude No.2 In E
  8. Prelude No.4 in E minor (""Weep you no more sad fountains"")
  9. Prelude No.5 In D
  10. Villancico (A negrito de cucurumb\xE9)
  11. Aria (Cantilena)
  12. Recuerdos De La Alhambra
  13. Procesi\xF3n
  14. Paso
  15. Saeta
  16. God Grant We Grace (Canon)
  17. Alma Redemptoris Mater
  18. Alma Redemptoris Mater
  19. Can\xE7o de lladre
  20. Polovtsian Dances (""Our Revels are ended"")

Music reviews of Into The Light (International)

Music Review: Japan's Greatest Guitarist
Rating: 5 Stars

It is a sad fact that Muraji Kaori is not well known in the US. She is easily Japan's greatest classical guitarist. I've recently started listening to people like Andres Segovia, Christpher Parkening, Julian Bream, Sharon Isbin, and John Williams. I would include Muraji in the very short list of great classical guitar players. I also heard an mp3 of Xuefie Yang playing from her CD Romance De Amor. A lot of the songs from Romance are also on Muraji's J. Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez. Xuefie playing is good but something was missing. I not sure what it was but it didn't move me. However, Muraji's playing also touches my heart, whether its Tango en Skai or her sad bitter sweet rendition of Cavatina from the Deerhunter, it never fails after repeating listening to move me. I'm not sure why this is. Both Yang and Muraji are excellent but Muraji has the right feeling and emotion that comes across in her playing.
I first saw her years again, on a Japanese TV commerical for some brand of green tea. She was playing El Colibri. Just on seeing how well she played on a short 30 second commerical, caused me to jump up and head to Tower records. I shyly entered the Classical section and bought 3 Japanese releases Concierto de Aranjuez, Cavatina, and Greensleeves at 3000 yen each. Her rendition of Greensleeves is the best I've heard recorded.
With all that said, I am happy that she signed to Decca, (the first and only Japanese artist to sign with them). I just wish Decca would do a much better job of promoting this great talent.
Into The Light adds another dimension to Muraji's virtuoso. Harry Christophers conducts The Sixteen vocal group in a way that adds an extra layer of richness to Muraji. Her guitar playing is brilliant throughout but she really shines on Villa-Lobos: Five Preludes, a moving rendition.
I was never really a big fan of classical music. I have some CDs like Beethoven's 9th Symphony and Bach's The Art of the Fugue, but it wasn't until I first heard Kaori that I started buying classical guitar cds.
It did open me up to a wide range of classical music.
The great thing about Muraji is that she has fun with it. Sure she does the serious classical. Yet, she also includes jazzy playful songs like My Favorite Things. She has another Decca release called Transformations. I do love her Japanese releases much more than the Decca recordings. While Into The Light is good, it doesn't really show off her true talent like the Japanese CDs. She needs better promotion and TV appearances in the US. Perlman's TV appearances are wonderful and I think she would be good too. There are clips of Muraji Kaori all over Youtube. Mostly from Japanese and Australian TV. I hope that she can make a name for herself over here in the same way that Goto Midori did.
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Into The Light (International) by Kaori Muraji [Guitar], The Sixteen [Choir], Harry Christophers [Director]

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This is a close to a "crossover" album as the fine group The Sixteen have ever come. Leaving most of their pure Renaissance and Baroque polyphony aside, here they are abetted by guitarist Kaori Muraji in a series of pieces arranged (by Bob Chilcott) for the CD, most of which, though seeming unlikely, work very well. Pachelbel's Canon is presented wed to a poem by Oscar Wilde and proves hypnotic. Gaspar Fernandes, a 16th-century Portugese composer, is represented by an energetic "A negrito de cucurumbé," featuring two soloists from The Sixteen and percussion. Tomas Luis de Victoria's Alma Redemptoris Mater is presented in two parts: one for soprano and guitar, the other for chorus. There are guitar solos as well. Villa-Lobos's aria from the Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5 sounds strange and ineffective for full chorus, and the final choral highlight (from Borodin's "Polovtsian Dances") is a bit like Muzak, but this is an original, crowd-pleasing release, beautifully sung and played. --Robert Levine

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